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Presidential message to Congress on new labor legislation (repeal of right to work clause of Taft-Hartley) due about May first. Tipoff: Rep. Adam Clayton Powell has officially scheduled committee hearings on the legislation for May 10 or May 17. . . . Powell incidentally received polite kick in teeth from his colleagues when they voted operating funds to the six House Education and Labor subcommittees directly — i.e., they don’t all have to go through Powell. . . . Sen. Paul Douglas (D., Ill.), who has been leading the fight against Sen. Dirksen’s constitutional amendment to undo the Supreme Court’s one-man one-vote rule for state legislatures, says he’s not all that sure it can be stopped. It’s expected to be reported out of Senate Judiciary Committee shortly and it’s likely to pass the Senate. House passage uncertain. . . . House Republicans scornful of job ranking GOP member of House Judiciary Committee, William McCulloch, has done in opposing wilder clauses in proposed voting-rights bill. They credit Reps. Richard Poff (R., Va. ) and William Cramer (R. , Fla.) with any Republican victories.

Along the picket lines: San Francisco’s big leftist peace walk on April 17th moved out with thinned ranks. At last moment, the Committee for Non- Violent Action, three other left extremist groups, quit because march leaders ruled there would be no civil disobedience. . . . YAF rallies in support of President Johnson at campuses across the nation (April 24) popular with many non-political students who have objected to leftists speaking in name of student bodies. . . . Peter Vujacic, young physics professor who quit his job at U. of Penn, in protest against the University’s having permitted the showing of a contraband Vietcong propaganda film on campus (to a minimum of national publicity), has received a score of job offers. . . . But outraged: Arnold Johnson of the Communist Party U.S.A, (he’s the CP pr-man) at decision of the Progressive Labor Movement to form itself into a ’’new” communist party. The pirating of the name “communist,” says Johnson, is “an old trick of provocateurs, stool pigeons and irresponsible adventurers.” Leaders of the PLM, expelled from the CP a year ago, proclaim their allegiance to Peking.

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Presidential message to Congress on new labor legislation (repeal of right to work clause of Taft-Hartley) due about May first. Tipoff: Rep. Adam Clayton Powell has officially scheduled committee hearings on the legislation for May 10 or May 17. . . . Powell incidentally received polite kick in teeth from his colleagues when they voted operating funds to the six House Education and Labor subcommittees directly — i.e., they don’t all have to go through Powell. . . . Sen. Paul Douglas (D., Ill.), who has been leading the fight against Sen. Dirksen’s constitutional amendment to undo the Supreme Court’s one-man one-vote rule for state legislatures, says he’s not all that sure it can be stopped. It’s expected to be reported out of Senate Judiciary Committee shortly and it’s likely to pass the Senate. House passage uncertain. . . . House Republicans scornful of job ranking GOP member of House Judiciary Committee, William McCulloch, has done in opposing wilder clauses in proposed voting-rights bill. They credit Reps. Richard Poff (R., Va. ) and William Cramer (R. , Fla.) with any Republican victories.

Along the picket lines: San Francisco’s big leftist peace walk on April 17th moved out with thinned ranks. At last moment, the Committee for Non- Violent Action, three other left extremist groups, quit because march leaders ruled there would be no civil disobedience. . . . YAF rallies in support of President Johnson at campuses across the nation (April 24) popular with many non-political students who have objected to leftists speaking in name of student bodies. . . . Peter Vujacic, young physics professor who quit his job at U. of Penn, in protest against the University’s having permitted the showing of a contraband Vietcong propaganda film on campus (to a minimum of national publicity), has received a score of job offers. . . . But outraged: Arnold Johnson of the Communist Party U.S.A, (he’s the CP pr-man) at decision of the Progressive Labor Movement to form itself into a ’’new” communist party. The pirating of the name “communist,” says Johnson, is “an old trick of provocateurs, stool pigeons and irresponsible adventurers.” Leaders of the PLM, expelled from the CP a year ago, proclaim their allegiance to Peking.