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Show The reaction to President Truman's Tru-man's veto of the Case bill has not been pleasant either for the Chief Executive or his party leaders. lead-ers. Mr. Truman has been criticized vigorously by newspapers all over the nation. Even papers ordinarily ordinar-ily partial to labor have been hammering him. It was easy to point out from previous statements the President made how he reversed himself in some of the arguments he used against the Case bill. , Looks To Labor Vote ; . . There were other inconsistencies. inconsisten-cies. It was all too apparent that Mr. Truman relied heavily on the CIO statement on the bill in writing writ-ing his veto message. And it is apparent that he is relying on the latoor vote to offset the public reaction re-action against his refusal to sign comprehensive labor legislation. With no major strikes at the moment, the expectation of fundamental funda-mental labor legislation at this session of Congress is dying away. An exception is the Hobbs anti-racketeering anti-racketeering legislation which, passed by the House some time ago, . was reported unexpectedly by the Senate Judiciary Committee and then passed unanimously by the upper House. The Hobbs bill was a provision in the Case bill. But the CIO, in its indictment of the latter, assailed as-sailed the provision aimed to prevent pre-vent unions from holding up trucks on the highways and robbing their non-union drivers, as vigorously as it did any other part of the bill. |