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Show hearings by spokesmen for James R. Hoffa's Teamsters union. If . legislation of this type is recommended by the House Labor Committee, it is obvious that a determined fight on the floor of the House will be essential essen-tial to obtain a worth-while measure. Industry strongly advocates ad-vocates strengthening amendments amend-ments to deal with the monopoly power of union bosses. In addition addi-tion to the Barden proposals, it would prohibit compulsory unionism and place unions under the antitrust laws. MO C0MMEN1 by James W. Douthat Ass't. Vice President, Government Gov-ernment Relations Division of the National Association of Manufacturers. "NO COMMENT" is a report of incidents on the national scene, and does not necessarily reflect NAM policy or position. Washington, D.C., June 17 Labor legislation seems definitely defi-nitely headed toward House consideration following a forceful force-ful appeal by Senator McClellan (D-Ark.) for effective action to deal with the glaring evils exposed ex-posed by his Senate Rackets Committee. Testifying before a Joint House Labor subcommittee, the Chairman of the Senate Rackets Committee summed up his views in these words: "If Congress hasn't the courage to enact a labor bill this year, then God save the country." Urging approval of a strong labor bill, the Senator warned that "you are not going to stop Hoffa by a pious code of ethics." He urged the House, among other things, to include in its legislation provisions to curb secondary boycotts and organizational organi-zational picketing and to broaden power of the states to deal with labor disputes. The Kennedy bill passed by the Senate, he said, does not go far enough to correct the "evil conditions and improper practices" prac-tices" disclosed by the two and one-half year rackets investigation. investiga-tion. Senator McClellan's testimony wound up : the - subcommittee , hearings and the Full Commit-. Commit-. tee met the next day to start drafting a measure for House consideration. One of its first acts was to reject decisively, 20 to 10, a move to delay Full Committee action until the subcommittee had prepared a report on the . hearings. This vote was regarded as ' positive evidence that the Committee Com-mittee majority was determined deter-mined to report a bill. Committee Commit-tee Chairman Barden (D-N.C), who has had long experience in this legislative field, said he expected a compromise to be worked out. Among the legislative proposals pro-posals under consideration are two bills by Rep. Barden to regulate union operations, protect pro-tect state laws against federal preemption, provide for a secret strike ballot, regulate union political activities and curb secondary sec-ondary boycotts and organizational organiza-tional picketing. Industry, in general, prefers these measures to others under study. The others include a new bill by Rep. Roosevelt (D-Cal.) containing anti - racketeering controls and some labor "sweeteners." "sweet-eners." The Roosevelt approach is approved, ap-proved, in general at least, by the House Democratic leadership. leader-ship. In fact, it was drafted after consultation with House leaders. And Speaker Rayburn told newsmen that he did not want to involve the House in irrelevant ir-relevant controversy over Taft-Hartley Taft-Hartley revision. Rep. Roosevelt, in a statement state-ment of greatest significance, said he regarded the general provisions of his measure to be acceptable to organized labor. Labor experts pointed out that his bill adopted almost word-for-word a "bill of rights" proposal advanced at committee |