Evening star., 1950-05-27
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successful fight waged by the
Truman administration against
the ft-Hartley labor relations
law. passed by the Republican
80th Congress in l947.
Leader in Second Fight.
Last year. Mr.. Lesinski played
leading role In President Tru-
mans battle for repeal of the
Taft Hartley Act. That move, too
was unsuccessful.
Recently Mr.. Lesinski made
headlines when he killed an in
vestigation of John L. Lewis con-
duct Of last winters soft coal
strike. The probe was scheduled
by Representative Jacobs. Demo
crat. of Indiana. He is chairman
of House Labor Subcommittee
which has been investigating un-
democratic practices in labor
unions.
Mr.. Jacobs several weeks age
announced his intention of prob
ing charges made by an Illinois
member of the United Mine Work
ers that Mr.. Lewis had used secret
signals last February to f1out a
District Court order to end the
coal strike.
In a bitter fight. Mr.. LeSinSki
first tried to abolish the Jacobs
subcommittee. Failing in that,
he. as chairman of the full COM
mittee, withdrew the power of the
Jacobs unit to subpoena witnesses
Mr.. Lewis and other UNIV officials
then were invited" to testify by
Mr.. Jacobs. but they refused. Mr..
Lesinski said that Mr.. Jacobs had
exceeded his authority as head of
the subordinate group in calling
the probe.
Drove Home.
Last September, Mr.. LesinSki did
abolish the Jacobs committee while
it was in the midst of investigat-
ing affairs of the AFL Interna- l.
tional Printing Pressmen's Union.
The new chairman of the Labor
Committee probably will be Rep
resentative Barden. Democrat, of
North Carolina. who is the rank
ing majority member.
Mr.. Lesinski, Catholic. diff
fered sharply with Mr.. Barden on
such issues as Federal aid to
schools. Mr.. Jacobs, also a Cath
olic. split with the chairman over
the school matter, too.
The big conflict over getting a
$500 million school aid bill to the
House floor arose in the Labor
Committee over the religious
issue-whether parochial schools
should share in the Government
money.
Mr.. Lesinski was credited large
ly with leading the 13-to-l2 vote
by which the committee shelved
the Senate-approved measure last
March IA. For months Mr.. Lesin-
ski had even refused to call a
meeting of the committee to con-
slider the bill.
Considered Construction Bill.
Shortly after the committee had
put aside the education bill it de-
clded to consider school construc-
tlon legislation - an approach
strongly favored by Mr.. Lesinski.
Pointing up the religious issue
that had arisen, Mr.. Lesinski
asked a witness few weeks ago
in a hearing on the proposed
building measure:
DO you want the religious
question to come up again? We
want to do what we can first be-
fore getting back into the reli-
gious question"
Mr.. LeSinski's first wife. Stalla
died in 1919 and his second wife
Barbara. in 1887. He married
the present Mrs. Lesinski in 1888.
The Congressman was the father
OF seven children. A native of
Erie. Pa, he came to Detroit
as a child. His election to Con-
gress followed business success.
Two small children by the third
survive. They are Bev-
erly Jane, 10. and Edwin, 7.
Other surviving children are Ray
mond. l8, a cadet at West Point;
Delphine, 81: John A. Lesinski,
IS. OF Dearborn; Mrs. Heidenreich
OF Daggett, Mich. and Mrs. Max
inc Pityns. Dearborn.
Funeral services have not been