Th U n , , t at s e nat e toda accom 1 s h ed what amoun t s to a e ch apt r i n th is o r of on ess .(Ne, r bef was a r s d ntia l v t o er - ridde n n su ch cir cum tan ce s a s accompan ed th fin a l and def inite enactment of the Taft-Hartl ~ Bill this afternoon, ~ the bill,<-s no, law. Never before ha there been so much a it ti on and _r e ssure f rom both sides. Never before had th e sustaining or objection of such an important veto hung in the balance. The vote, sixty-eight to twenty-five, four more than Senator Taft and his colleagues needed to override 1t')The Democrats would have had one·more, but for the illness of re Senator Wagner, fath r of t he Waner Act. His physicians declared that th e eff ort of goin to XJliJblpJUl Washington to vote might be fatal. From his bed in a Ne Y rk hospi~~gged A his colleagues to u p hold the President JMr. Truman himself made a last m1nu~e effort to win with a 1 tter to Se nator Barkley, the minority le a d er , who read it eat on the floor of the SPnate. But t he opposit i on wa ~ d a losing fight. Actually, t he issue VETO - 2 ~ a our as . ha s not b en n oubt a n y tim in ~ 1., h 1 t f Th fir t co n cret e r eact on to the ~ p as sing o f the T a ft -H art l ey · 11 was th r es i .~ ati o n of Jerh ardt v an A~ kl , g eneral counsel t o th e Nat i onal La bor Relations B o ard . He explained that he was JUUi unwilling to a ttempt to have any part ~ ~ : : . .4. in the enforcing of the T a ft-H'!-rtley Act )!=ease II• a11iu?x:ii ~ '-1..t. consider~ unworka_b_l_e~-t ~ e of the strong arguments of the bill's opponents, that it was neither fair nor wo~kable. Senator Ives of New York, as he voted, said there were indications that a definite•attempt•s bein g planned to sabotage the T a ft-Hartley law before it has had a fair chance. In reply, Senator W a yne Morse of Oregon, the man who kept on talking for ten hours Friday and Saturday, admitted it was true that organized labor was digging in al o ng a united front to preven t the bill being a pplied. That, he said, was not sabota g e, but human nature. I t woul d tak e • a w hol e b ro a dcas t to e x p lain t h e bill, bu t t h e 1rop ortan , p oints are t h at~t prohi b i t s a c l o s ed ! vrro - , --- shop, renders unions liable to suits for dama es fo r unfair labor practices, forbids jurisdictional boycotts and secondary boycotts, gives the government the power to obtain injunctions for ei~ty days against any strike which might threaten the national health and sa f ety. It does permit labor organizations to :..a1nt4in a union shop along definitely restricted lines.) The spectacular overriding of Mr. Truman's veto, as foreshadowed, was accompanied by a coalition of Republican and Southem Democrats. senator Taylor of Idaho begged the Southemers to vote .#f-.-4 as Democrats.~ the Democratic Party must be a liberal party if it is to be a party at all. Revublican senator George Malone, who voted on the Truman side, said that this bill would bring about not less government meddling but more in relations between management and labor. ~ Senator Taft expressed the guiding sentiment of the Republicans when he delcared that they were pasting the Taft-Hartley measure because there is an overwhelming demand throughout the country for the act, definitely and positlvely. vrro - 4 -- If they had failed, the R e publicarr°Pe1ty would be held delinquent. He denied completely that there had been any politics in - the drafting of that law. ADD VETO __...-,----- ( S ubstitute for early Bulletin.) ~ abor•s reaction to all this -- to the Senate' over-riding the President's veto - - was i ~ mediate a nd bitter.) Angry thre~tij from S an Fr a ncisco and dew York and Pittsburgh; an~ir■ingham, Alabama, labor retaliation. Within an hour after the Senate vote, almost birteen thousand Onited Yine workers walked off their jobs in Birmingham's rich coal fields. And the walk-out there ia spreading, seventy-five percent of the United Mine Workers meabership in that area expected to be idle by this time tomorrow. The miners obviously had a well-organized plan prepared in advance. However, it is not yet obvious it they acted •on direct orders from John L. Lewis, head of t h e ~ ~ ~ . . In Pittsburgh, so~e three thousand ~iners struck . \.. ,4L.!)e~ this afternoon, ~A"rotest,agAlilr¼ ~ !RlLllIQ - 2 • In San Fr ~ ncisco, an angry Phii Murray, president of the . 1.0., has called for a twenty-four- hour nationwide work stoppage against what he terms the •slave law." In other words, Phil urray is J •• And Harry Bridges,Ahead calling for a general strike. dMJ1 of M r ' " ~ Longshoremen•' •Onion on the lest Coast, ,.. b a s ~ served notice that his group will fight back •by organizing1 striking and picketing if employers deny workers their rights:• • Murray, in his denunciation of the act, suggested, ~ •That the national C. I. O. call upon the A. F. of L., the railroad brotherhoods, and independent unions to join together in protest ~1ain1t~ ~-··· In New York, angry wofds also -- unionlpledgins an early court test of today•, labor legislation. One national maritime union Vie•e-J>residen;, waxing lyrical in his alleged martyrdom, cried• out, •a concentration camp able to hold one-hundred-thousand will have to be built to enforce any attempt to repress the rights won b1 the ••eat and blood of our seamen.• SCOTUS Mater James C esar Petrollo, oft-times described as the Czar of ibhe MUsicians 1 un1on, sustained a defeat, a major defeat, his first in many years. In fact, I don't recall ever having to report a permanent set-back for the smiling little labor autocrat since I've be8'l on the air.--fToday's was a real one, since it came from the Supreme Court of the United States. i \ . . . ~ ~ - e . ~ is called in newspaper Jargon, handed down a ruling which surprised man'lpn..-, including lawyers. It declared ex cathedra that the Lee'Aat is perfectly valid and constitutional, the act which forbade Petrillo 1 s featherbedding rules as applied to radio s t a t i o n s ~ • ~ e - h e • ~ / c011pela stations to keep musicians on their payrolls, even when l they do nothing more than play pinnocle, while a transcription is heard over the air. It was a split decision, Slin• five to three, but it definitely finds -..rt the Lee A~t,as directed against the Musicians, Union 1 11.a11..J!2!; •II.• ~ unconstitutional. Justice Black scOTUs - 2 who wrote th e de c i sion, said it 1 s not class le g islation, because it singles out broadcasting employees is not within the province of the court to say that because Congress forbids sOl'lle practices, it must forbid all others. Petrillo.._ announced publicly that if the Supreme Court tumed him down, he would forbid his musicians to make ~ any more records an~go into the recording business himself, • so as to get the profits. The court also forblde Petrillo tc, to make the proprietors of d_ance halli(pay the social aecuri ty taxes or their musicians. The Supreme Court was profligated with news today handing down several decisions, each of wh.tch would have been a story by itself. For instance, the case of the California oil bearing tidelands. That dispute which resulted in the spectacular resignation of Harold Ickes as secretary of Commerce/ 8 rter he had blocked tx••t•utu P resident Truman's appointment of Edwin C. P awley as Under-S ecr etary of the Navy. The Court, curiously enough, upheld the stormy ex-Cabinet Minister's · contention, rul~that those tidelands and the oil under the ,.. :$ ocean within the three mile limit, belong~ not-. to the A . • state of California, but to Uncle Sam. 0 Then there was the cas! of two prominent and notorious union leaders in New Y 0 rk, convicted of extortion, Josephs. Fay, Vice-President of the In;ernational Union of O~erating Engineers, and James Bove , Vice-tretident of ~ he international Hod Car~1ers. Th e y had blaclooailed the contractors who built the Delaware Aqueduct :1in,.-""1e1~Ca,1~~ hr four hundred thousand dollars. A jury convicted them, and they were ~~ sentenced to one year 1n the Hew York City penitentiary ~ ~ · seven and a half years 1nAstate prison. The • 11&.jority of the Supreme I justices approved both the conviction and the sentence. T h r e e ~ dissented, objecting to the blue ribbon jury system now prevalent in important New York scoros - 4 - cr1.Jllin8l trials. The dissenting three sai d th a t restricting " juries to higher types of citizens created a prejudice. The Sunday peace of quiet God - fearini Ca ■,ridge, lebraska, suffered a tragic disturbance early yesterday. Down the valley of Medicine Creek and the Republican RiYer, a twelve-foot wall of water aade its appearance with draaatic suddenness, tearing thro the countrJaide, knocking buildi'ngs froa their foundation,, tilling at froa a least eleYen, with thirty-five more ■ issing --,-••••x tourist caap on the banks of Medicine Creek. The Caap w11bed away as tho it had never been there, and no trace ot ••1 ot its guests has been found. In another part of lebraska, the high waters tore down a bridge and carried away an auto and ita two occupant• -- a young chap and his girl friend. latare was in a wild aood over the weekend. Take that blizzard that hit Yellowstone Park, autos buried, with three peris ing of pitiiliii:ix Thirty c a rloads of •iaitors ~••*xxx stranded on MM- eleven-thousand-foot Bear Tooth Plateau. And that torn a do blowing six f a r m houses away, I in Rorthweat Kansas. JJATBER -~ la 8htac on 8~. M ■ •r•• Lske, ., e e••••n e \••• In California, an earthquake in Uonterey Bay, that rattled windows in San Francisco and Oakland • . No serious daaage. In Mtssouri, more flood. The river on the rise for the fourth ti ■ e in three weeks. The regional engineer ot the l ~ ather Bureau, in lansas City, reports that it will be even more disastrous than the three previoa1 on•• because the river is already swollen and its le•••• weakened. Be adda that this one will clean out The Miaaouri Valley for this year so far as agriculture i i c;encerned. • Tonight some sixty thousand additional acre• ot corn land are inundated, and at ■ any point• the water is nine feet above flood stage. - Bugsy ie g el l ay unmourneJ in e Los Angeles funer a l p rlor today. ~ h a d fawned upon the gansster looked the other way . ( Three days a f t e ~ e l ' s assassination, police admit they are no nearer to finding his slayer than they were on Friday night when Siegel was shot to death in his Beverly Hills home) But the case has strange ramifications. Any- one of hundreds might have wanted Siegel out of the way. A gangster, •ho talked too much, who woulin't play ball with the mob, and a one-time member of llurder, Incorpor a ted, -ie was fated to die with his boots on. Police are checking all angles.-- on the lest - Coast, in aew York City; but the underwoid is keeping 1, ■ ua . .. . . OIL - · - No more export of petroleum products from the · United States, at least fort' e time being. The Governme bas re-imposed wartime controls on the sale abroad of all aotor fuels, kerosene, and gas oil. Reason for the move? Apparently, the Adainistration want• to quiet Congressional criticism of American oil shipments to Russia. These controls won't halt all shipments of oil to the So•iet union, but they will - make thea awbject to the discretion of the Comae~ce Department. Fro ■ no• on, it will require a license to ship oil abroad and the license will come from the Departaant of Co ■■ erce. Department officials point out tonight that they can regulate the amount of oil any country can receive from On 1 ~• from now on simply by cutting down on the numbe1 of licensees. £Q.RFERENCE IAA () ~ - •• ~ p (} _f - -L.i} - r ~ w ~ ~ · ~ _ -ci;t-1>~ \ The Bi g Thr e e Euro p ean ~ oreign Ministers will start A aris their conference of S e cretary of St ate Marshall's P lan at on FridaY. French Foreign Minister Bidaul~rrupted a debate I..._ 1n the French Parliament to announce that Molotov had accepted the proposal, and E;nest Bevin did the same in the B1't'U-M 1f House of Commons. This meeting promises tc make history, for the Marshall Plan, if put into effect, will carry out the most sweeping and unprecedented program of international cooperation ever attempted, a program to restore' the prosperity and stability of a continent. I The French Communist papers --~~~H'1~~ I , , a W ~ saying thlt Molotov• acceptance of the A invitation to the conference does not mean that he accepts the plan. That, of course, is t#erything w4 ~ -tl:.J-lt#. .,..r.on whether Bevin and Bidault ~ find ~olotov has ~ I arrived in Paris with orders from the all-powerful Soviet Politburo to cooperate. The entire French Chamber of Deputies broke in~o coKPERENCE - 2 - applause when Bidault made his announcement, and Bevin's report to the . House of Commons was received with cheers. HUBBARD ------- B ve the Russians t e atomic bomb? T h a t • ~ nuestion that has been plaguing m ny Americans ever since we learned we had one ourselves. Tonight, in Chico, Californi, one man, a rat er well-known man, gave a partial answer. Re happens ~~ to be i • ~ friend of mine -- F~ther Bernard Hubbard, t e famous •Glacier Priest~• l:d head of the Geological Department at the University ot Santa Clara. The traveling Priest has just returned from a seven aonths' round-the-•orld trip, and he brings back r i ~ th is information~~ The Russians ■ a:, not have the ato ■ ic bo ■b -(!J:-- at it. ~ until a -- :,et, but they are working hard little while ago, they "fi;t;I... one ato ■ ic ~ ~ that plant energy plant. blew up. The Unfortunately, for the Russian ' ~- A i s e i 1 l D 8 ~ tl-e A.. proper know-how to operate it safely. So s a y s ~ ttmMA.•l\ the Glacier Priest. • Father Bubbat"d~wouldn't disclose his source of . information about Russia's atomic projects, but he calls that source •authoritative.• Says the Priest: •one of their professors ' evidently forgot the deciaal point; and the Soviet ato■ ic factory and , aost of the scientists inside it Just diaappeared.• And now lelson -- before - we disappear • ~ J..-,., u, r'fV.-7. The Coun t y Court of B ooklyn, New Y rk, today was the scene of one of the final acts in the drama of the sixty-four ' dollar n week cas~ier who helped swindle his employer dtnittJ:i,- . _JR eight hundred and fou~thousand dollarsAwithin a Period of twelve months. The cashier himself turned out to be Just a minor '✓~ figure in the scenario. H e " "' the instrument loot w a ~ r o m the bank account of through which the the famous Mergenthaler Lineotype Company into the pockets of a couple of ex-convicts. Today was sentence day for those graduates rromS.1r; sentence day in the County Court of Kings County, New York, which means Brooklyn in case you don't live here. And the sentencing judge was His Honor S muel Leibowitz, who was fonnerly famous as one o ~ d i n g defense lawyers.at' / \ J more acquittals in criminal trials than any other lawyer of his time· Police and prosecutors used to speak his name with ~~. f r o w n s ~ - But since he has been on the bench, A - 2 the Honorabl S ' mu 1 Leib owitz has acquired a new Rhandamanthine fame as a fair but stern judge. He, who knew every trick in the bag, is exceedingly impatient with obstructive lawyers• tactics. And it was he who had the task of sentenc those men convicted 1n the Mergenthaler case :F One of t h e ~ a well dressed 1 playful I\. , penitentiary graduate, calling himself by the jovial name of - - ~~ - ~ : i ; . , , Jimmy Colli . ns, his real name I Julius LobellL M ..... quite a A. , , . /\ A while, Ill cut a wide swath on Broadway and in Hollywood, ~ associated with ~dies and gentlemen of show business,.Aspent his money freely~fter he was convicted, Judge Leibowitz gave him one week to tell the court where he had hidden three-hundre and-fifty-thousand of . those eight-hundred-and-four thousand dollars, whiah the prosecutor's auditors have been unable to trace. Lobell, a lias Collins, refused to sing, as~~:.':.':'--¥• 8()88\ So the judge gave him a sentence of twenty to thirty years in prison, five to ten years on each of three counts, sentences to run consecutively. That means that after each term expires,he can be brought into court again and iven MERGENTHALER - 3 another chance to rev ea 1 where he bed hid,#tf money. The p roba tio n report r evealed that obell, alias ~ Siegel, murdered in Los Angeles last week. The two~~~•• associated in night club deals on the west coabt. Said - the -a, judge: "You want, gamble on a long shot and you hope a technicality will set aside the verdict of guilty." And the Judge added: "If you want to gamble, that's up to you." H~ said further: "Arter you tv-e served your term and after you realize you may spend the rest of your life in the Big H 0 use, you may change your mind. 11 The other accomplice, lmown by the interesting nickname of Izzy the Eel, received a mild sentence, seven and a half to twenty y ars, because they had been unable to trace any of the money to him. RADIO - Niles Trammell, heaa of the N.B.C., s rang a sensation in washin gt on today. H e told the Interstate Commerce , ~ committee of the S~nate that the R~dio Corporation of America has developed a new method of communication, high speed communication so amazing that it can transmit more than a million words a minute. To illustrate its capacity, Trammell said this new system could send the texts of twenty nu., · els, of fifty thousand words each, from New York to San Francisco, 1n no more than sixty seconds. Tramell,.._ himself !9 an engineer, said that television research has produced this new system. For the time being, the R.C.A. people call it "Ultrafax." It is, he ~ W \ ~a-t-~ ,. •• J..;.,Q explained, in effect a radio mail system. ~ 111 ■pasJ,-4C:: ■:Rt r \ /\ out-do radio telegraphy, wire telegraphy, cables, air mail, anything we•ve hitherto known. He explained further the way it works. Each printed page becomes a frame in a television • picture. E a ch of these frames is then flashed in almost lightnin g succession. At the receiving end, t he pages are RADIO 2 reproduced by new high speed hoto g raphic pr ocesses for quick deliv&ry. ~IJ7._ Ultrafruc can deliver~ uC, 9A1 na11, eve business documents, checks, photographs, newspapers, magazines. He predicted that the day is not far off when electronic methods will bring newsreels and motion pictures 1ntol the home, and you will receive your newspapers by radio. Trammel 1 s purpose in appearing before the Interstate Commerce Conunittee was to protest against a new bill increasing go~ernment control over the wireless. And he urged the Senators that radio should have the same freedom as the press, because, he pointed out, "together they will be able to withsband any assault upon democracy." He protested · against the proposal to give the Federal Communications Cormnittee the right to refuse to renew the licebse of any statio r because of the nature of the programs it has broadcast. That fonn of censorship~ satd Niles Trammell, than the biue-Pencilling kind. ould be much more powerful The bill in question, ~ llft~,._..Mt.llm'I~~ Republican , . senator Wallace White of Maine, would give the F.C.C. drastic cen8orship over radio.