Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-08-19

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ing. They promised to push 81
Democrats promptly accuS
doing Congress only chance to
clean up union corruption-just
to preserve a hot issue for this
falls election campaign.
The bill required a two-thirds
majority for passage through al
parliamentary short cut. but
failed to get even a simple ma
jority as it was rejected on a
198-to-190 roll-call vote. Party
lines broke badly. Democrats
voted for the Senate-paSsed bill
l49 to 81, while Republicans
opposed it, 1877 to Al.
Representative Kearns, Re-
publican of Pennsylvania,
sneered at the measure as a
''nothing bill" With other OPP
ponents, he complained bitterly
about Speaker Rayburn's eff
fort to ram the bill through the
House under procedure limiting
debate to 40 minutes and bar
ring amendments.
Speaker Blamed
While Majority Leader Nc
Cormack, Democrat Of MaSsa-
,chuSetts, maintained there was
no chance to, blast the bill out
of committee, Mr.. Kearns
blamed the Speaker for kill-'
ing the legislation by holding
1t on his desk about 40 days.
Following this line, Senator
Goldwater charged later that
1.-The Democrats had a clear
cut opportunity to do some
thing for the working man but
they refused" The Arizona
Republican was a leader in the
fight against the bill in the
Senate last June.
If the Republican Party
doesn't grab this as an issue,
we have no right to call our
selves a political party" he
commented after the House de-
feated the bill, adding:
THE working man must look
to the Republican Party for
protection.
Representative osevelt,
Democrat of California, charged
the Republicans opposed the
bill, because what they want
is an issue to beat labor over
the head"
Representative Ayres, Repub-
lican of Ohio, replied that
union bosses and their Demo-
cratic allies were not really in
terested in passing the bill, but
wanted only a record vote to
embarrass the COP.
Senator Kennedy, Democrat
of Massachusetts, blamed pol
itics" for defeating the bill he
co-sponSored. only Jimmy
Hoffa can rejoice" he COM
mented, referring to the Team
sters Union president now I'M
der investigation by the Senate
Rackets Committee.
While he promised to press
for cleanup legislation again
next year. Senator Kennedy de-
clared that "in the meantime,
those who defeated this bill will
bear a heavy responsibility for
the labor racketeering that will
continue unchecked"
Senator Ives, Republican of
New York, predicted "the ex-
tremiStS on arrangements side
have won and now are going to
demand such an anti-union bill
that they'll never get it through
both houses. The result will be
stalemate."
A co-sponsor of the bill, Sem
ator Ives blamed its defeat on
an "unholy alliance" between
"evil" men in labor and "un-
informed" Spokesman for man.
agement. They killed, a bill that
would have put Hoffa out of
business, he maintained.
Business Opposition
Senator Mcclellan, Democrat
of Arkansas, pledged introduce
ton of stronger legislation
next year. As chairman of the
Senate RacketS Committee, he
swings a lot of weight on the
union corruption issue. He
backed the Kennedy-Ives bill
reluctantly as the best legis-
lation that could be had this
year.
The AFL-CIO backed the bill
half heartedly. The Teamsters
Union and United Mine Work
ers opposed the legislation.
Main opposition came from the
National Association of Manu-
facturers and other business
groups, which denounced the
bill as too soft on unions and
complained that it would in
terfere with the rights of man
agement.
The business Hobbies also OBJ
Jected that the legislation did
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