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...NLRB election last December, the I.L.A. came out ahead (9,060 votes to the A.F.L.'s 7,568), but 4,405 challenged ballots were never counted, and no winner was certified. While the labor board checked into I.L.A. electioneering methods (including three stabbings), the A.F.L. went on signing up stevedores. Five weeks ago the A.F.L. felt strong enough for a showdown on one small issue: Billy Mc-Mahon...
Then it was learned that 1) Beeson was merely taking leave of absence as industrial-relations director of the Food Machinery and Chemical Corp. and expected to return there after one year on the NLRB, and 2) he stood to get a pension from the company. Since this raised an obvious conflict-of-interests issue (Beeson was still technically in the employ of a company that could be affected by his NLRB votes), further committee hearings were called. When he got up to play out his Rome-burning scenario, Beeson promised to resign outright from the company and to renounce...
...that Taft-Hartley has not stirred up more rank & file protest is that prosperity has been high and unemployment low since the act was passed in 1947. It has remained unamended because it was originally passed by overwhelming bipartisan majorities, and, until recently, liberally interpreted by a Democrat-controlled NLRB. Furthermore, labor leaders wanted outright repeal. Though the labor leaders have since changed their tune, the Taft-Hartley fight remains a battle of the professionals. And like old pros who have been through all this before, they may well let the battle die-and Congress will feel no need...
...I.L.A. ran low on money. Thousands of longshoremen, once held in complete subjection by gun-toting musclemen, began openly attending A.F.L. meetings. But even so, A.F.L. President George Meany expected that his new union would be completely snowed under last week when the NLRB held an election to name a bargaining agent for the New York and New Jersey piers...
...polls in special buses. Ex-Convict Anthony ("Tough Tony") Anastasia, I.L.A. boss of the Brooklyn piers, brought hundreds of his men to one voting place in a body, with a brass band at their head. In brawls over the election, some men were stabbed and others battered. The NLRB had hardly begun its count before it became obvious that many an I.L.A. longshoreman had voted for the A.F.L...