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...commission executive secretary he appointed an ambitious, possum-shaped Atlanta lawyer named T.V. (for Truman Veran) Williams Jr., 26. Williams soon multiplied the commission staff by ten, moved into prominent quarters across the street from the state capitol. He talked the legislature into giving him the power of subpoena, plenty of money for a dreamy assortment of private-eye equipment-long-lens camera, wiretap recorder, pocket mikes, etc.-to sleuth on any citizen suspected of disagreeing with white-supremacy dogma. Finding Georgia too small for his ambition, he got authority to spend taxpayer money publicizing racial conditions all over...
Labor Racket. Accardo, arrogant in cafe society suit and dark sunglasses, refused last week to tell the U.S. Senate labor-management investigating committee anything about his high standard of living, or how he keeps it. Testifying under subpoena, he set the style for six other professional gangsters who uniformly claimed that to talk at all would be to risk selfincrimination. Accardo let a total of 172 questions pass without answer. Samples: Where were you born? Do you operate your affairs to get control of unions? Do you have any scruples against killing? Do you have any respect for your government...
Whatever the political value of the Republican offensive, it at least resulted in a stronger bill. With help from liberal Republicans, the united Democrats easily fought off most of the Republican amendments, but Kennedy accepted without a struggle important changes that: ¶Empowered the Secretary of Labor to subpoena union officials and records during investigations...
Choosing among 14 all-out segregationist candidates for the Democratic nomination for Governor, Alabamans last week gave first place to one with highly acceptable credentials: Attorney General John Patterson, 36, who could boast at one time of having every Negro leader in the state under subpoena...
...Secretary Jim Mitchell before the A.F.L.-C.I.O. convention in Atlantic City last fall (TIME, Dec. 16). Its principal weapon against labor racketeering and corruption would be compulsory public filing of union records. To superintend this filing, Ike asked Congress to establish a new U.S. Commissioner of Labor Reports-with subpoena powers-to be appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate. The commissioner would see to it that unions file annual financial reports and at least once every four years certify that their locals have held elections by secret ballot. Secret balloting would be required by law for national...