The Week

Uh-oh. A Senate subcommittee is looking into the discovery that mother’s milk is a carrier of unsavory chemicals, including some known carcinogens. Federal regulators may be faced with their most ticklish challenge to date. The big question is whether they’ll require filtration systems, or simply settle for a monitory tattoo.

Right-to-work forces suffered a partial defeat when the House voted to repeal the Hatch Act—A partial defeat, because it’s not at all certain that the repeal will make it through Senator Abraham Ribicoff’s Governmental Affairs Committee. And, also, because the House passed Representative Trent Lott’s (R., Miss.) amendment saying, in summary, that no federal employee may be forced to join a union against his will. The symbolic importance of this amendment is indicated by the reaction of the friends of Big Labor—e.g., Representative William Ford (D., Mich.), who said, “What the gentleman talks about as the expansion of freedom of the employees is a union-busting provision. … It would have the House go on record in favor of the principles of right-to-work.” Just so.

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Uh-oh. A Senate subcommittee is looking into the discovery that mother’s milk is a carrier of unsavory chemicals, including some known carcinogens. Federal regulators may be faced with their most ticklish challenge to date. The big question is whether they’ll require filtration systems, or simply settle for a monitory tattoo.

Right-to-work forces suffered a partial defeat when the House voted to repeal the Hatch Act—A partial defeat, because it’s not at all certain that the repeal will make it through Senator Abraham Ribicoff’s Governmental Affairs Committee. And, also, because the House passed Representative Trent Lott’s (R., Miss.) amendment saying, in summary, that no federal employee may be forced to join a union against his will. The symbolic importance of this amendment is indicated by the reaction of the friends of Big Labor—e.g., Representative William Ford (D., Mich.), who said, “What the gentleman talks about as the expansion of freedom of the employees is a union-busting provision. … It would have the House go on record in favor of the principles of right-to-work.” Just so.