Business,
Editor's note In: the followinr
dispatch, the chief counsel of the
Senate Rackets Committee con
eludes that dealing with corruption
Is a problem for business and the
bar for all Americans as well as
unions.
By ROBERT F. KENNEDY
Rackets Committee Counsel
Written for UPI
Washington - (CPD - In two
and a half years, the Senate
Rackets Committee has heard
a parade of witnesses who
have told stories of theft, ex
. tortion. double-dealing - or
other forms of man's mis
treatment of his fellow man
A great deal of this kind
of testimony has led some
people to the conclusion that
the fault lies solely with la
bor. Nothing could be fur
ther from the truth. The com'
mittee has looked into rela
tively few unions, and where
corruption has been shown,
the AFL-CKD has often mov
ed vigorously and effectively
to deal with the problem. The
expulsion from the AFL-CIO
of the Teamsters and Bakery
& Confectionery Workers
Unions are two such ex
amples. No Action By Business
At the same time, the com-
. mittee has looked into some
50 companies and corpora
tions. No business group has
yet to take an action com'
parable to that of labor
against these business enter
. prises which have been shown
to have engaged in unsavory
practices.
In addition, we have had a
number of lawyers about
whom there has been serious
derogatory information. Some
lawyers have invoked the
Fifth Amendment before the
. committee. Yet, bar associa
tions have yet to take the first
, action against any of these of
fending members of the legal
profession.
. Not Labor's Problem Alone
The corruption we have un
covered weaves from labor to
management to lawyers to all
segments of our society. This
is not labor's problem any
more than it is manage
ment's or the taxpayer's prob
lem. It is a problem that
strikes at every one of us;
this corruption is a problem
for all of us as Americans.
The committee of necessity
has had to explore the seamy
side in the field of labor
management relations, but a
great many people showed
great courage and we should
not lose sight of their brave
fight against tyranny and corruption.
James Luken of Cincinnati
is such an example. A lead
ing Teamster official, he provided-
a marked contrast to
the 100 fellow Teamster lead-
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Washington-dJPD-Labor Sec
retary James P. Mitchell has
joined President Eisenhower
in backing a labor reform bill
supported by business groups
and conservatives in the
House.
Lawyers Share Blame,
ers who appeared before the
committee and invoked the
Fifth Amendment. He testi
fied forthrightly about his
fight with James R. Hoffa
since he became head of a
Milk Wagon Drivers local in
Cincinnati, and then head of
the Joint Council there.
He told without dramatics
the threats to his life how
a hearse showed up at his
home one day to pick up his
body; how flowers were sent
to his funeral.
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with William Presser, the
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president of the Ohio Confer
ence of Teamsters, whom the
committee has labelled cor
rupt. He related how Hoffa
told him: "If you want to get
ahead in the Teamsters in
Ohio, you take orders from
Bill Presser. He's my man."
When Presser appeared be
fore the committee he invok
ed the Fifth Amendment.
The committee has found
that the mark of corrupt la
bor leadership is its affinity
for close relationship with
employers; the frequent sell
out of union members. In
Ohio, where the contracts are
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higher than the Hoffa-negoti
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ken and his associates have
had to fight "side deals" ex
ecuted by Hoffa with large
trucking companies, . to the
detriment of the members. In
New York, where the "con
tracts are far superior to
those negotiated in the Mid
west, Teamster official Tom
Hickey stood his ground
against Hoffa in 1954 and won
for them wage increases far
in excess of what Hoffa had
told the large motor carriers
they could settle for.
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two examples of the majority
of Teamster officials through
out the country who are hon
est and who devote their ener
gies to the improvement of
conditions of their fellow
workers. 1
One of the committee's most
inspiring witnesses was John
McNiff, a 23-year-old lawyer
whose New York group took
up the cause of thousands of
Negro and Puerto Rican
workers, working for sweat
shop wages and under sweat
shop conditions in small
manufacturing plants in New
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lei. locals of the old UAW
AFL (now the Allied Indus
trial Workers Union). But he
also found that for every
crdbked labor leader there
was a greedy employer, only
too eager to do business at
the expense of his workers
and in the interest of his
higher profits. McNiff s fight
was made much harder by the
attitude of these employers
who maintained that the sign
ing of "sweetheart" contracts
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