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...former Secretary of Labor Arthur Goldberg did not take part), the Supreme Court last week held that jurisdiction over right-to-work issues lies with the state courts. "It would be odd," wrote Justice William O. Douglas, "to construe [the 1947 Taft-Hartley Law] as permitting a state to prohibit the agency clause but barring it from implementing...
...ruling had prompted one leader of the National Right to Work Committee to predict a speed-up in the movement for the laws, which prohibit a company from requiring union membership of employees. Two University professors commented, however, that the decision had been fully expected and, in the words of one, "should not be regarded as a bombshell...
...Harry W. Jones maintained that it takes a stretching of history to apply the First Amendment ban on "establishment" to state actions. At the time the Bill of Rights was ratified, several states had established churches, and one purpose of the "establishment clause," as lawyers call it, was "to prohibit the Federal Government from interfering with existing church-state arrangements in the states." Jones pointed out that the wording-"no law respecting an establishment of religion"-would apply "as clearly to a congressional statute interfering with existing state establishments as to a congressional statute establishing a national church...
...Senate is expected to go along. Crowed Virginia's Republican Congressman Joel T. Broyhill, one of the backers of the bill: "A progressive step." If Congress continues to catch up with the times, it may some day dispense with the District of Columbia's laws that still prohibit driving sheep down Pennsylvania Avenue and forbid winning more than $26.67 in a gambling game...
...final guarantee of bonhomie throughout the conference, party officials dusted off an obscure by-law that permits them to prohibit debate on subjects that have been "fully and adequately explored" within the previous three years. Astonishingly, they used the rule to cut off any discussion of the thorny problems of defense and foreign policy...