| Show Labor Controls Are Needed THE first of three important proposed labor measures scheduled to come before cons conss congress con con- gress ss s has been approved by the house judici judiciary judiciary judi judi- ci ciary ry committee and is due for early consid consideration con con- sid ration It is a law designed to curb labor racketeering Now it is a fact that there is a federal v law on on the statute books aimed at r racketeer racketeer- ing But i na recent supreme court ruling that C- C law Jaw was held not applicable to racketeering practices carried on under the guise of labor activity The present law will ill clear up that situation and bring labor unions under the control of the antiracketeering law lar As Representative Representative Representative Rep Rep- Hobbs sponsor of the measure says it will make it definite that highway robbery is highway robbery whether the perpetrator perpetrator perpetrator per per- holds a union card or not One does docs not have to be a union hater to recognize that the activities of some labor unions and labor organizers are types of racketeering extortion racketeering extortion bribery robbery and assault We have had the proof of that in too too many cases Too many union leaders like for it Willie Bioff have been sent to prison Too many businesses have paid through the nose to labor racketeers Too many unorganized unorganized unorganized individuals and groups have been forced by threats and violence to obey the orders of labor racketeers The people of America know that some legislation to control the ruthless depredations of f a few unprincipled labor bosses is needed Many of the more enlightened leaders of labor and many of the members of labor organizations organizations organizations know it too They know that in thelong the thelong long run this racketeering will ill do labor far more harm than freedom from restraint will willever willever willever ever ever do it good Organized labor in America today is a very important and very powerful institution It has a huge membership It has great wealth and great resources But for all its power it itis itis itis is not as responsible as it should be Ambitious Ambitious Ambitious Ambi Ambi- and unprincipled men can too easily gain control aria and use the power of a labor organization organization organ organ- for evil ends It is time for labor to come of ag age age to to accept along with the strength of its manhood manhood manhood man man- hood the responsibilities that go along with the status of an established adult institution in society Just as other institutions are subject subject subject sub sub- to legal controls to insure that they willbe will willbe willbe be responsible so must labor be subject to some legal controls One of them is control of its actions to keep them within the law That control is envisioned by this antiracketeering antiracketeering antiracketeering measure Other controls needed are laws lawsto lawsto to require labor organizations to make mak periodic statements of their receipts and expenditures and to bring them under the provisions of the antitrust laws All three of these controls are now before congress or in committee It would be to the best Interest of the country country and and in the longrun longrun long longrun run to the best interest of labor labor labor-if if they were all enacted into law |
