New York, Feb. 18—I am late in paying disrespect to the so-called Labor Reform Bill, but not too late. It got through the House of Representatives, which passed it with sycophantic speed lest the powerful labor unions have grounds to suspect the House of independence. The bill comes up now before the Senate, which will consider whether to write into law what Mr. A. H. Raskin of the New York Times has labeled “pushbutton unionism.”
The background of this bill is the poor performance in the postwar decades of organized labor. At the end of the Second World War, 35 per cent of all nonfarm labor was union. Thirty years later, that figure had dropped to 25 per cent. Why?
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