For the Record

Labor’s hopes for fast repeal of Sect. 14 (b) of Taft-Hartley Act (the clause that permits state-enacted right-to-work laws) dimming. For several reasons: 1) public irritation over unnecessary $2 billion national dock strike in January and February ; 2) probability that intra-union squabbling over presidency of United Steelworkers will lead to a steel strike ; 3) tendency of some normally pro-labor Democratic congressmen not to go along. Some legislators, notably Sen. George Smathers (Fla.), Chairman of the powerful Senate Democratic Conference, and Rep. Hale Boggs (La.), the House Democratic Whip, are reluctant to support repeal on constitutional, states’-rights grounds. . . . As direct outgrowth of dock strike, Rep. David Martin (R., Neb.) has introduced H.R. 333—a law to ban industry-wide bargaining. . . . AFL-CIO leaders were startled a week ago when a poll by Chase Manhattan Bank of academic economists—most of them certifiable Liberals—showed that 52 per cent favor placing labor under anti-trust laws.

The well-informed Bulletin de Paris reports a major influx of Soviet arms —from Antonov-12 transport planes to automatic rifles and mortars—into the Sudan, where two anti-Tshombe rebel training camps have been established at Boghari and Cherchell, near Tlemcen. A major offensive against Tshombe is now planned for mid-May, according to this report. . . . Thirteen moderate African states—most of them French-speaking countries—have formed a new Common Organization of Africa whose immediate purpose is to achieve peace in the Congo through support of Tshombe’s government. . . .U.S. diplomats having difficulties in effecting release of U.S. psychologist Ronald Ramsey, a Free Speech Movement activist at Berkeley and a pacifist, from an Algerian hospital jail. Ramsey was persuaded to work in Algeria by Michel Raptis, a former Ben Bella aide who has since fallen out of favor. When Raptis was disgraced, Ramsey was seized by the Algerian secret police as a CIA spy and badly beaten up. … World protests over the death sentences pronounced against three former Ghanaian cabinet ministers, after a sham trial, apparently have impressed Kwame Nkrumah. He now says he will submit his case against the trio to the International Jurists.

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Labor’s hopes for fast repeal of Sect. 14 (b) of Taft-Hartley Act (the clause that permits state-enacted right-to-work laws) dimming. For several reasons: 1) public irritation over unnecessary $2 billion national dock strike in January and February ; 2) probability that intra-union squabbling over presidency of United Steelworkers will lead to a steel strike ; 3) tendency of some normally pro-labor Democratic congressmen not to go along. Some legislators, notably Sen. George Smathers (Fla.), Chairman of the powerful Senate Democratic Conference, and Rep. Hale Boggs (La.), the House Democratic Whip, are reluctant to support repeal on constitutional, states’-rights grounds. . . . As direct outgrowth of dock strike, Rep. David Martin (R., Neb.) has introduced H.R. 333—a law to ban industry-wide bargaining. . . . AFL-CIO leaders were startled a week ago when a poll by Chase Manhattan Bank of academic economists—most of them certifiable Liberals—showed that 52 per cent favor placing labor under anti-trust laws.

The well-informed Bulletin de Paris reports a major influx of Soviet arms —from Antonov-12 transport planes to automatic rifles and mortars—into the Sudan, where two anti-Tshombe rebel training camps have been established at Boghari and Cherchell, near Tlemcen. A major offensive against Tshombe is now planned for mid-May, according to this report. . . . Thirteen moderate African states—most of them French-speaking countries—have formed a new Common Organization of Africa whose immediate purpose is to achieve peace in the Congo through support of Tshombe’s government. . . .U.S. diplomats having difficulties in effecting release of U.S. psychologist Ronald Ramsey, a Free Speech Movement activist at Berkeley and a pacifist, from an Algerian hospital jail. Ramsey was persuaded to work in Algeria by Michel Raptis, a former Ben Bella aide who has since fallen out of favor. When Raptis was disgraced, Ramsey was seized by the Algerian secret police as a CIA spy and badly beaten up. … World protests over the death sentences pronounced against three former Ghanaian cabinet ministers, after a sham trial, apparently have impressed Kwame Nkrumah. He now says he will submit his case against the trio to the International Jurists.