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WASHINGTON, D.C, -
Reed Larson, president of
the National Right to Work
Committee, has called Big
Labor’s failure last week to
revive their so-called labor
law “reform” bill “yet
another victory in the
ongoing battle between the
public interest and the fir
mly entrenched system of
political payoffs to union
bosses.
“The inability of Big
Labor and its allies in the
Senate even to move this bill
from subcommittee,’’
Larson said, “can be
directly attributed to the
flood of cards and letters
that Americans wrote
earlier this year opposing
Big Labor’s phony ‘reform’
biU.
“Senators who had
wrongly supported this
unpopular bill in June didn’t
want to violate their con
stituents’ trust again in
October - with the election
only a month away.”
The misnamed labor law
“reform” bill - buried in
committee last June after a
record-setting six un
successful attempts to
silence debate against it -
threatened to rise from its
grave on Monday, Sep
tember 25th, when Sen.
Harrison Williams (D-N.J.)
announced plans to in
troduce what he claimed was
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a “bare-bones” version of
the unpopular biU.
The American Farm
Bureau Federation and 1
other agricultural groups
were among those who urged
defeat of the measure.
But the scheduled
resurrection soon proved to
be futile, as senators on both
sides of the aisle rose up in
protest.
Even before the senators
uttered their pubhc protest,
however, the groundwork
had been laid for the biU’s
reinterment.
Four days before Sen.
Williams made public his
intent to rush the new labor
law “reform” bill to the
Senate for a vote, the
National Right to Work
Committee responded to
early warning signals from
Capitol Hill and alerted
hundreds of its key leaders
nationwide by personal
phone calls and memoranda.
The Committee’s telephone
bank was also primed and
set to sound the alarm for
activists in eight targeted
states, should die bill have
emerged from committee.
Two days after Williams
went public with his plan, the
Right to Work Committee
issued a press release at
tacking the move as “a pure
flim-flam.” Just another
effort, the Committee said,
to push a bill advertised as
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being merely procedural,
but which in fact was
“nothing more than an at
tempt by union officials to
subject hundreds of
thousands of unwilling
workers to the dictates of
unwanted labor unions.”
The following day -
Thursday, September 28th -
the Committee sent letters
accompanied by a detailed
legal analysis on the latest
version of the bill to
thousands of editors and
other journalists from coast
to coast.
In the midst of the Right to
Work Committee’s ac
tivities, senators who had
successfully led opposition to
the earlier so-called labor
law “reform” bill, quickly
countered attempts to sneak
a new version of the same
bill through the Senate.
Sen. Orrin Hatch, (R-UT),
leader of the filibuster that
had buried the original bill in
committee, vowed a
renewed effort to kill the
“revised” version of the
widely protested bill.
Meanwhile, Sen. Richard
Lugar, (R-IN), a co-leader of
the 19-day filibuster, issued a
bulletin alerting Americans
who had voiced protest to the
union power-grab attempt
earlier this year.
By Thursday, September
28th, the bill’s chances of
passage seemed doubtful.
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shot down again
Williams’ projected
schedule to “mark up” the
revised bill in committee on
Wednesday had already run
aground.
That afternoon, while
talking with a Senate
colleague, Capitol Hill
sources report that Williams
tipped his hand by leaving
his microphone open and
inadvertantly broadcasting
' the bill’s true status across
the speakers in every
senator’s office.
Two high-ranking
organized labor officials had
been scheduled to meet with
him, Williams “confided”
(he thought) to a colleague,
and deliver the 60-plus
names of senators that they
claimed would vote to cut off
debate if the revised bill
were confronted with
another filibuster. The two
labor officials never showed,
Williams whispered, and he
was therefore forced to
cancel action on the bill.
Another unimpeachable
source from Capitol Hill
revealed that Senate
Majority Leader, Robert
Byrd, (D-W.V.), had his own
head count taken, not
trusting the count of Senate
Majority Whip Alan Cran
ston (D.-Calif.) who figures
on the legislation had been
notoriously inflated
throughqut the June
“cloture” "attempts to kill
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debate. This time Sen.
Cranston laid claim to votes
poll, however, put the count
in the low 50’s, meaning that
more senators than ever are
opposed to cutting off debate
on the union-backed
legislation.
Looking back on organized
labor’s attempts last week to
resurrect the buried bill,
Larson commented, “It’s
appalling that Big Labor
would try to unearth a bill
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firmly opposed. Last week
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but still rising and
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millions of American
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“We expect they’ll try to
resurrect the bill again next
session,” said Larson. “But
if they haven’t corrected its
basic compulsory unionism
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