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designed to enforce discipline
and order. Union leaders had
said the Mcclellan version
would bring chaos.
Omitted from the Kuchel
version is the right of men,
bers to inspect union member
ship lists for purposes of cam
paigning for Office. Senator
Kennedy said this provision
would make unions vulnerable
to management spying and re-
4 prisals.
Would Establish Principle
Despite the dilution, the
Kuchel version would establish
the principle that the Federal
Government may intervene in
unions internal affairs on a
fairly wide scale.
Earlier yesterday, the Sem
ate rejected two other key
proposals by Senator McClel-
Ian for Tightening the reform
bill.
! On a 30-59 roll call vote,
he lost his bid to ban what
he called "blackmail picket
ing" He would have prohibited
union from picketing for rec
ignition or for organization of
workers-unless a majority of
employees of the target COM
pany filed a petition with the
employer.
A Favorite Weapon
Senator Mcclellan said such
picketing is a favorite weapon
of racketeers. Senator Kennedy
said the curbs would help anti
union employers crack down
on union members. and would
block expansion of honest un-
ions into sweatshops.
On a ALSO roll-call vote, the
Senate rejected Senator Nc
Clellan's proposal to outlaw
most forms of secondary boy
cottS-preSSure against "neu-
trail" employers to make them
stop dealing with companies
engaged in labor disputes.
Boycotts also are a weapon
of racketeers, and hurt inno-
cent small businesses, the Sem
ator contended. But Senator
Kennedy argued that the pro-
posed restrictions would tip
the balance of economic power
against honest unions.
A watered-down curb on or
ganizational and recognitional
picketing. offered by Senator
Prouty, Republican of Vermont,
was adopted on an 1914 roll
call vote.
Picketing Spelled Out
This version would allow
picketing of so-called open
shops. 1t would ban picketing
only when the company already
had a contract with a union
representing a majority of its
employees. or during a nine
month period after an election
lost by the picketing union.
Senator Prouty lost 40-53
his proposal to close the juris-
dictlonal gap between the Ma
tional Labor Relations Board
and the States in labor mat |
tiers. Senator Kennedy accept
ted and the Senate adopted, |
1915. Senator Cooper's pro-
posal in the field. 1t would |
permit State agencies, other
than courts. to handle labor
cases when the NLRB declines
Jurisdiction - but the State
agencies would be bound by
Federal labor law.
Rejected 4l-51 was an
amendment by Senator Dodd, |
Democrat of Connecticut, to
tighten restrictions against i'm
position of trusteeships on local
unions by national unions. He
wanted to make the national |
union prove the need for sus-
pending the locals autonomy,
with the Secretary of Labor to
judge.
Senator Kennedy modified
his bill to limit the duration
of trusteeships to IL months
instead of Is months. During
this period the trusteeship
would be presumed valid in
the absence of proof to the
contrary. After IL months, |
the trusteeship would be termi- |
mated unless the national
union could prove the need for
extension.
Also rejected were proposals
to let union officers use union
money for their legal defense,
if the expenditure were duly
authorized, and to require
membership votes before strikes. /
The legal defense amendment. /
sponsored by Senator Nc
Carthy. Democrat of Mime
sofa, lost IS to Z. The strike
vote amendment, proposed by
Senator EaSflor,d nax,noarot Il