Ur ion Leaders Challenge
Authority of Senate Probe
By JAMES V. NEWTON
The attorney for two West Coast teamster union officials said 1
today they were “challenging the authority" of the Senate Invest!- '
gations subcommittee to look into the union's affairs.
The statement was made by Samuel B. Bassett, Seattle
atomey, as the subcommittee began a closed hearing which Chair
man McClellan, Democrat of Arkansas, said was intended to :
reveal the facts about alleged
“labor racketeering.”
Senator MqClellan called first
as witnesses a number of Federal
officials for questioning about the
possible need for more stringent
laws to control racketeering. 1
Both the chairman and Sub
committee Counsel Robert F.j
Kennedy said the hearing may
be opened to the public tomor
row.
Lecdom Called First
Chairman Boyd Leedom of the i
National Labor Relations Board
was the first witness called.!
Waiting to testify later were!
Secrete ry ol Labor Mitchell andj
a numbe: of Treasury Depart- ■
m-mt officials.
Mr. Kennedy said nine labor
union officials and members
would be questioned this after
noon.
Mr. Bassett is counsel for
Frank W. Brewster, vice presi
dent of the big Teamsters Union
and chairman of the Western
Conference of Teamsters, and
for Nugent LaPoma, secretary
treasurer of the big Teamsters
local in Seattle.
Mr. Bassett said Mr. Brewster
and Mr. LaPoma would refuse to
furnish Senator McClellan’s com
mittee with union financial rec
ords which it has been trying to
get. Senator McClellan issued a
subpoena for the documents in
Seattle but the union refused to
turn them over.
Legality Challenged
Mr. Bassett said, “We are
challenging the authority of the
committee to make this par
ticular investigation. It doesn’t
have the legal authority, either
byway of statute or senatorial
resolution.
“When a properly constituted
body has been set up by the
Senate, we Will be perfectly
willing to give them all the in
formation or evidence they
want.”
The counsel added that he
and his two union clients had
not brought any of the financial
. records which the McClellan
subcommittee subpoenaed.
Senator McClellan issued a
statement saying his investi
gators had developed facts
"showing collusion between cer
tain dishonest management and
union officials that had the effect
of increasing the cost to the
Government of goods and com- !
modifies it purchased and the
suoplyine of inferior quality.”
He added that this situation 1
was revealed in an investigation
the committee has been conduct
ing the past two years into pro-;
curement of uniforms for the
military services.
The chairman said he had
called a number of Labor De
partment, NLRB and Treasury
officials in an effort to find out
what was needed to tighten rack
eteering laws.
Clarification Sought
He said the Senators wish to
determine whether the Govern
ment agencies have the authority
to find out whether information
furnished by labor unions on its
financial conditions was true or
false.
Senator McClellan said that
conferences with Internal Rev- :
enue Service officials “indicate!
Accord on Textiles
Reported by Japan
The Japanese Embassy said
today an understanding has been
reached with the United States
on Japan's voluntary limitation
of cotton textile exports to this
country in 1957 and for several
years thereafter.
A formal announcement is
scheduled to be made at 4 p.m.
today.
The last phase of the discus
sions came this morning when
Japanese Minister Shigenobu
Shima delivered a note from the
Japanese foreign office to the
State Department on behalf of
Ambassador Masayuki Tani.
Mr. Shima represented Japan
in the talks with Presidential As
sistant Sherman Adams. As
sistant Secretary of Commerce,
Harold C. McClellan and Deputy
Undersecretary of State Thors
ten J. Kalijarvi.
By taking voluntary action to
restrict the flow of textile ex
ports to the United States it is
the hope of Japanese officials and
extile manufacturers to over
come objections of the American
textile industry and head off ac
tion by Congress to impose rigid
Import quotas on textiles.
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lation to enable the bureau to
investigate labor organizations
which, under the law\ are tax
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Piecemeal Disarmament
Perilous, Finletter Says
Thomas K. Finletter, former i
Secretary of the Air Force, ad- i
vised Congress today that a
piecemeal, partial disarmament
policy would be dangerous to !
the United States and would
offer no assurance of world' l
peace.
In testimony challenging some ;
phases of proposals made to the
United Nations this week by
Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge, ;
Mr. Finletter emphasized to a :
Senate subcommittee studying 1
disarmament problems that this
country should strive for aI,
“total” plan. He also urged a|
s simultaneous drive to remove the I
causes of war and international
tensions.
Mr. Finletter. also a former
State Department official in the
Roosevelt and Truman adminis- :
trations, insisted that until fool
proof international agreements
are achieved for disarmament,
the United States should main
tain atomic air power at its
greatest possible strength.
“I believe it is a mistake to
base our disarmament policy on
the idea of partial disarma
ment.” he declared. “I believe
that any attempt to negotiate
with the Communists for partial
reduction of forces will, in prac
tically all cases, be futile and
dangerous.
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effect, even on a step-by-step
basis, Mr. Finletter conceded to
the subcommittee tha f the task
would be difficult. He declared
that this country nevertheless
has a duty not only to help work
out such a plan, but also to press
for its adoption under control
of the United Nations.
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i the suggestion that all future
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