Word: subpoena
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Labor Racket. Accardo, arrogant in cafe society suit and dark sunglasses, refused last week to tell the U.S. Senate labor-management investigating committee anything about his high standard of living, or how he keeps it. Testifying under subpoena, he set the style for six other professional gangsters who uniformly claimed that to talk at all would be to risk selfincrimination. Accardo let a total of 172 questions pass without answer. Samples: Where were you born? Do you operate your affairs to get control of unions? Do you have any scruples against killing? Do you have any respect for your government...
Whatever the political value of the Republican offensive, it at least resulted in a stronger bill. With help from liberal Republicans, the united Democrats easily fought off most of the Republican amendments, but Kennedy accepted without a struggle important changes that: ¶Empowered the Secretary of Labor to subpoena union officials and records during investigations...
Choosing among 14 all-out segregationist candidates for the Democratic nomination for Governor, Alabamans last week gave first place to one with highly acceptable credentials: Attorney General John Patterson, 36, who could boast at one time of having every Negro leader in the state under subpoena...
...Secretary Jim Mitchell before the A.F.L.-C.I.O. convention in Atlantic City last fall (TIME, Dec. 16). Its principal weapon against labor racketeering and corruption would be compulsory public filing of union records. To superintend this filing, Ike asked Congress to establish a new U.S. Commissioner of Labor Reports-with subpoena powers-to be appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate. The commissioner would see to it that unions file annual financial reports and at least once every four years certify that their locals have held elections by secret ballot. Secret balloting would be required by law for national...
...reforms will require no elaborate system of enforcement or constant federal intervention in union affairs; they simply require reports to the Labor Department on union operations. But behind the paper work there will be muscle. Mitchell proposed the creation of the post of Commissioner of Labor, with power to subpoena records and individuals, and a change in the law to give federal courts jurisdiction in cases of embezzlement of union funds, which now fall exclusively to state courts. With this kind of added strength, the Labor Department could be certain of keeping all sore spots in union business under constant...