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Nearing the end of its herculean first session, the 89th Congress has firmly set in place the foundations of the Great Society. It has adopted legislation that will affect nearly all Americans, but most immediately the poor, the elderly, the undereducated, those who are conspicuously deprived of political representation and economic opportunity. While thus proving itself the most liberal Congress in decades, the 89th has notably refused to act in one area that might have been expected to fit its pattern: it has not approved a single bill that would exclusively benefit organized labor...
...start of the session, the A.F.L.-C.I.O. urgently requested enactment of a $2-an-hour minimum wage, a standard 35-hour work week and double pay for overtime. None of these proposals even came up for a vote. Last week the Senate made so bold as to reject the bill that union chiefs craved more than any other: repeal of the Taft-Hartley Act's hated 14(b), the "right to work" clause, under which 19 states have outlawed union membership as a condition of employment...
Olympian Ultimatum. It was not for lack of effort on labor's part. Swarms of hard-bitten labor lobbyists bustled around Capitol Hill all session. A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany himself stumped from office to office, making gruff demands for repeal. International Typographical Union President Elmer Brown even distributed copies of an Olympian ultimatum admonishing Congress: "Our patience is about exhausted with being doublecrossed. And the Senators ought to know that they cannot doublecross the labor movement again and get away with...
Summoning in a four-man press pool, Johnson chatted about the amazing productivity of the 89th Congress. The session, he said, reminded him of "an old song that we used to sing in the hills of Texas, 'Keep on doing what you're doing to me, because I like what you're doing to me!'" He admitted that he had been disappointed a few times, but allowed: "You never get everything you want." On the other hand, he could not resist adding, "If Hubert and I were up there representing the House and the Senate...
This upside-down political cake was baked by Wallace's ambition to run as the conservative candidate for the presidency in 1968. To further this aim, he decided, he would need a second term as Governor (TIME, Oct. 8). Summoning his usually docile legislature into special session, Wallace introduced a bill to repeal a 64-year-old clause in the state constitution that expressly bars the Governor from succeeding himself...