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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.
For the moment it looks re
markably sound,
(c) 1959 New York Herald
Tribune Inc.
Monday, Aug. 10, 1959
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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."
In its March, 1958, interim
report, the committee said
"union funds in excess of $10
million were either stolen,
embezzled, or misused by
union officials over a period
of 15 years, for their own fi
nancial gain or the gain of
their friends and associates."
The committee's final total
is still being tallied.
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