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Matter of Fact ai,p ' - . '-'2 j THE NEWS THEY HAD FOR NIXON Washington Vice Presi dent Richard M- Nixon's home coming was not all cheers at the airport. His personal po litical staff was waiting, almost at the gangp lank, with the warning that what they call "the Joseph ajs Rockefell e r situation" had been abruptly transformed during -Nixon's absence. The Vice President and those around him have never discounted the potential can didacy of New York Gov. Nelson Rockefeller. Nixon himself has often said that events would probably "force" Rockefeller into -the race. But Nixon always hop ed that events would work the other way; and he also felt reasonably confident that Rockefeller would at least stick to his gubernatorial knitting until the New Year, as he said he would. Now, however, "the Rocke feller situation" is thought to be transformed, because of a whole series of reports of symptomatic developme n ts . One report, as yet uncon firmed, concerns a sort of Rockefeller loyalty oath im posed on the New York State Republican organization, i n which there were pro-Nixon tendencies here and there. Another report, also uncon firmed, suggests that a sort of embryo headquarters for a nationwide Rockefeller un derground has been opened in New York City. THOUGH u n confirmed, both the fftregoing reports are believed by the Vice President's advisors. They are no less ominous, in any case, than other develop ments of undoubted authenti city. One such was the circula tion by the New York State Republican Committee Chair man, L. Judson Morhouse, of a memorandum on the Re publican outlook. The memo said, in effect, "Nixon can't win, Rockefeller can." Another, and much the most important development was Governor Rockefeller's own announcement in Puerto Rico. At the Governor's Con ference he told the political reporters that he would de cide in November, on the basis of public opinion polls, whether to become an active candidate. For these reasons, the Nix on staff concluded, long be fore their chiefs return, that they must now prepare for an active contest with the New York Governor, begin ning much earlier than had been expected. Pro-Nixon Re publican leaders all across the country have reached the same conclusion. Thus the Nixon office in the capital was already being deluged by appeals for action, and suggestions of public pledges to the Nixon cause, while the Vice President was still tra versing the Siberian wilds and receiving the cheers of Warsaw. AS THE Nixon high com mand sees the contest ahead, the polls that Gov. Rockefeller . says will guide his decision will be a major factor in the outcome. On this front, the Vice Presi dent's position has been im proved, thus far, by his jour ney behind the Iron Curtain. Whereas the Gallup poll for July gave Nixon 44 per cent of the national vote and Ad lai Stevenson 56 per cent, a new poll, hastily taken after the Nixon-Khrushchev debate had been televised, gave Nixon 51 per cent and Stev enson 49 per cent. This is a substantial and highly encouraging gain in popular support. But Nixon and his staff have noted, some what apprehensively, that this first pairing did not include the man they regard as by far the strongest Demo cratic vote-getter, Sen. John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts. There are rumors already that a Nixon - Kennedy poll, also taken post-Moscow, will appear next week. If Dr. Gallup'i results are anything like the results this reporter got in New York City, the second test is not likely to be an encouraging as the first. TPHERE are further rumors -- that the next full - dress Gallup poll will also test the Vice President against Sena tor Kennedy. Strangely enough, although Dr. Gallup's own pollers have collected much evidence of Kennedy's superior strength, many months have passed since the inquiring doctor published a nationwide poll with Ken nedy in the Democratic top place. If Kennedy holds any thing like his former support in these polls that lie ahead, their shock -effect can more than cancel out the Vice President's gain in Moscow. Nixon and his staff natural ly contend that polls taken now cannot possibly forecast the outcome of a hard-fought campaign next year. Yet they are realistic enough to fore see that this autumn's polls may lend credence to the Nixon can't win" slogan. The Nixonites further con sider that this is just the pre text Governor Rockefeller wants, for an announcement that he feels compelled to use his exceptional campaigning talents to save the Republi can party. Time must tell whether this is a reasonable analysis of the Governor's intentions. 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Main at., zna rioof airing ojui Hows: 10 to 7 tba.-ll H 530 fats. CT FtL-Oosri Stf. Editor's Note: This is lha first of several dispatches on the work and results of the Senate Rackets Committee. By ALVIN SPIVAK UPI Correspondent Washington -UPB- The Sen ate Rackets Committee is nearing the end of its three year journey along crooked trails of crime and corruption in labor and management. Apart from mop-up inves tigations and a close look at the role unions play in poli tics, the committee's main ef fort now will be to prepare a final, comprehensive report on what it has found and where this should lead. The eight-member commit- .tee headed by Sen. John L. McClellan (D-Ark.) already has inspired the drive for la bor reform legislation which meets its crucial test in the House this week. Its disclosures have prompt ed the AFL-CIO to drive the scandal - scarred Teamsters Union from its ranks and knock leaders of several other unions from power. Urges Hoffa Curb Committee hearings have touched off a number of fed eral and state criminal prose cutions, and have sparked a Justice Department investiga tion of "wholesale" racketeer ing, perjury and income tax evasion by various Team sters officials. 'The committee's second in terim report, issued last week on the basis of last year's tes timony, accused Teamsters President James R. Hoffa of sinister designs which it said, "will successfully de stroy the 'decent labor move ment" unless he is curbed. The tone of the committee's final recommendations will depend to a large extent on the final shape in which labor reform legislation comes through this year. Committee members thsmselves are di vided on how strong it should be. Testimony before the com mittee already has amounted to 45,000 pages of original transcript. It covers 262 days of public hearings in which 1,505 witnesses appeared arid 341 of them invoked the Fifth Amendment. - McClellan has emphasized 11,500 Idled by Copper Strikes - Salt Lake City-WPB-Kenne-cott Copper . Corp. operations in four western states were halted today as 11,500 work ers were" idled" by a "strike which a company spokesman said appeared to be the .start of an industrywide copper strike. . The strike for new contracts was called by members of the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers, the United Steelworkers jof America, and the Internation al Association of Machinists. - Picket lines at Kennecott operations in Utah, Nevada, Arizona and New Mexico were honored by members of the 17 other unions which have contracts with Kenne cott. Workers in New Mexico jumped the gun and started striking last week. Supervisory workers were allowed to pass through picket lines in order to maintain equipment during the strike that costs an estimated $850, 000 a day in economic losses. PHONE COST RAISED Rome-dTD-Italy is raising the cost of telephone calls 25 per cent beginning Oct. 1. The price of a gettone"-a small metal slug used in telephones repeatedly that the commit tee's charges of corruption have applied to "a minority of the unions." Spotlights Teamsters Most of the investigative road has run through Team sters terrain where the com mittee has endured head-on collisions with Hoffa and Fifth Amendment roadblocks from his aides. ' It has been territory which, according to the testimony, has been infiltrated by gang sters and racketeers ranging from streetcorner : thugs to crime overlords of New York, Detroit and Chicago. The committee also has tracked through smaller but similar areas of unions includ ing the Bakers, Butchers, Car penters, Restaurant Workers, Operating Engineers, and oth ers. And management's sins have been explored in cases where employers paid off corrupt union bosses, o r worked with union leaders for their mutual advantage and to the detriment of their workers. Charges have involved "dictatorships" reaching from local to international levels of several unions; extortion of money from employers; bru tality, from anonymous threats to brass-knuckles beat ings and murder; graf and collusion, including allega tions that some union agents worked with law enforcement officers to take over local vice operations. . The latter sort of inquiry, centering pn Portland, Ore., started the committee on its way early in 1957. But before long, the Portland sensations were drowned out by the howling swan song, in a Fifth Amendment key, of Dave Beck, Hoffa's predeces sor as Teamsters president. Union Funds Stolen . Beck's downfall began aft er the committee traced through thousands of finan cial transactions and came up with documented charges that he "took, not borrowed, more than $370,000 in union funds." The committee's dismay over Beck's "uncontrollable greed" soon gave way to anger and shock about Hoffa, leading it to state that Hoffa "presents an even . greater threat than Beck to the wel fare of this country." Last week's report charged that Hoffa "maneuvered" use of $3 million in Teamsters insurance money to "pay off a long-standing debt , to the Chicago underworld and to the corrupt labor leader who introduced him to Midwest mob society, Paul Dorfman." The report said the money, paid to the Dortman's son and wife over eight years, in cluded $1,650,000 "in excess commissions and service fees." 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