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YOUR
CONGRESSMAN'
REPORTS
B- R't Rurr P. Harrison
Washington.Fe w legislative contests of this session of Congress have had such strong emotional overtones as the debate on a labor bill. The vigor of the battle has been tracable, on the one hand, to a widespread and angry demand that something be done to curb the , ruthless racketeering methods of some labor leaders, and, on the other, to an apprehension that the labor union movement as a whole was being measured, for a suit of chains.
The arrogance of Jimmy Hoffa; the surly refusals of gangland-oriented bosses representing some unions, to answer the questions of Congressional committees; the stories of brutal punishment meted out by hireling thugs to independent-minded businessmen and workers alike_these have combined to produce a nationwide demand to “do something”. To many, a “strong” labor bill has held the hopes of an early jailing. or deposition, of Mr. Hoffa and of an assortment of unsavory characters who spat their smug defiance at the McClellan Committee. Many firm trade unionists, to be sure, have been numbered among tho.e harboring a strong antipathy for Hof fa-type union dictators and their high-living henchmen. They have been disturbed that Hoffaism would become sunonymous with unionism in the minds of citizens having,little direct contact with the processes of collective bargaining. The plea to “do something”, therefore, was heard from the ranks of both employer and employee, as well as
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