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Require an original 30-day
cooling period.
Forbid q labor strike unless
the Secretary of Labor had GER
titled that a majority Of the
workers approved it in a secret
ballot election conducted under
supervision of the Cancellation
service.
Indirectly freeze either the
open or closed shop relationship
between management and work.
ers. for the duration of the de-
fense emergency.
Forbid use or intimidation or
violence toward workers.
Forbid management of a struck
defense plant to import strike
breakers. and unions to import
additional pickets.
Deny Wagner Act benefits to
unions which knowingly or negh-
gently give Office to members of
the Communist party, Young
Communist League, the German
American Bund and the Kyft-
hauserbund.
Prohibit jurisdictional, boycott
and sympathy strikes.
Require labor unions to file
reports with the National Labor
Relations Board showing their
financial status and officers.
Provisions From Three Bills.
The House decision was a victory
for a group of Southern Democrats,
led by Representative Smith, and
Cox and Vinson Of Georgia, but their
victory would not have been possible
without the strong support given
the substitute by the Republicans.
Their strategy consisted in COM
bining into one substitute the major
features of the Smith, RamSpeck
and Vinson bills. Before the vote was
taken. however. Mr.. Smith took out
one major part of the RamSpeck
bill-the legislative sanction for the
policy already being carried out by
the President of taking over plants
where mediation fails to prevent
strikes.
The plant seizure remedy Is the
basis of the Connally bill already
pending on the Senate calendar with
q favorable report from the judiciary
Committee. The House vote came
sooner than had been expected, and,
with many Senators out OF the city,
it was uncertain today how that
branch would proceed in considering
the issues presented to it by the
House.
Forces Conference Test.
One thing is certain If the Senate
uses the House bill as the basis on
which to work, fate of the stringent
Smith proposals will be settled
finally in conference committee, even
If the Senate goes back to a more
moderate program. And the men
who led the fight for the Smith
remedy are almost certain 10 be
represented on the conference.
Although the President did not
recommend specific outline of legls-
lation TO Congress, the Ramspeck
bill was generally regarded in con-
gressional circles as the one the
administration preferred.
An indication of this was the
final appeal to the House just before
the vote by Majority Leader Nc
Cormack of Massachusetts for re-
lection of the main features of the
Smith substitute-the secret ballot
and the registration of labor unions
Mr.. Mccormack told his colleagues
the reasonable waiting period called
for in the Ramspeck bill was all that
is necessary to cope with the current
situation, and that passage of the
Smith plan would be regarded as a
punitive measure"
Majority Grows in Votes.
The House. however, apparently
had made up its mind to let the
country know it was against delays
in defense work. and in a rapiC
succession Of votes it sustained the
Smith substitute.
First. in committee of the whole
It upheld the drastic substitute or
a teller vote. 1872 to 143. A few
moments later, in the House proper
1t reaffirmed that decision on s
record vote, 229 TO 158. Then, or
final passage of the amended bill
the Smith forces piled up an ever
larger majority, 252 to 1856.
The House also accepted two in.
dividual amendments offered from
the floor. as follows:
BY Representative Hobbs. Demo,
crat, of Alabama. prohibiting the
importation of outside pickets OF
strikebreakers to defense plant
the effect of which is to limit picke'
lines to men who were working ir
the plant when the trouble devel.
oped.
BY Representative Dies, Democrat
of Texas, Withholding the benefits
of the National Labor Relations Ac
from any organization if it. retain
among its officers any person be
longing TO a subverSive movemen
or who is a former felon. Mr.. Dies
chairman of the committee investi
eating un American activities
charged In the House Tuesday tha
some Communists and others witt
police records have invaded tn
ranks of c. I. o. unions.
Ramspeck Move Defeated.
After the House had twice ap
proved the Smith substitute, Rep
resentative RamSpeck. whose bill ha
been recommended by the Hous
Labor Committee, made last-min
ute effort to halt its passage by NOV
ing to send the whole subject back t
committee. His motion included IN
structions to the committee to strik
out the Smith proposal and re
draft the committee bill.
Representative Rankin, Demo
crat, of Mississippi stopped tt
move with the point Of order that
committee could not be instructed
draft a plan the House itself ha
lust rejected. When the point VIZ
sustained the fight was over ar
the bill passed.