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1 35 16 Potter's matters. How do you do, ladies and gentlemen, since I've been privileged to be a member of the United States Senate, I've always gotten a great deal of mail, but I have never received such an avalanche. Is Male is that which has come into the office since the labor management reform bill started being debated.

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Letters from people not only all over the state but for that matter, some of it from all around the nation, but or and again, a tough labor bill. They're just some of the letters that have continued to come and even afterwards passed the bill. As you know, we finally passed.

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It has been sent to the president now, and it's now Law. Here's a letter which comes a sort of a typical letter from a friend of mine. Jacksonville, Florida he says. I want to know why it is that in all these discussions about this labor bill, John McClelland, representative from Arkansas, has been ignored.

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Well, I'm going to answer my friend and tell him that I agree with the sentiment which he's expressed in this letter. I don't believe that John McClellan has been given sufficient credit for the passage of this realistic and effective labor management bill. John McClelland has headed Iraq.

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Its committee was the man who focused the attention of the United States on some of the evils and some of the corruption which existed in some of the union. He was the man who became sort of a catalytic agent, which made us all realize that something had to be done in this field.

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And I'm hopeful that John McAllen's great contribution this legislation will be recognized by more and more people in these United States. And I would recommend that the newspapers in the magazines begin to give him a little credit for the wonderful work, which he did. Well, here's another letter which says from Tampa that I'm a union man and I hear a lot about this so called Bill of Rights for me.

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What does this Bill of Rights do for me? Well, actually, it does a number of things. It may not actually be particularly helpful to the man who belong to the union that he belongs to intent, but there had been a number of unions which did not give to the union members any right of expression.

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The union leaders took their money and use it in a fight in which they wanted to themselves. They did not have elections are they browbeat their members and things of that character. That was well demonstrated by the McClellan committee, This bill of rights guarantees of these union members that they now have a secret ballot where they can cast the vote and not be in fear of having some acts taken against them if they don't vote right.

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It also provides that there will be periodic election of officers every three years. Now these union leaders have to go up before their members and the election. It also provides that certain union leaders will not be eligible to run for office if they had some criminal record behind.

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It also provides that there will be a full disclosure made at what's done with the union members. Money financial reports will be made available to all the union members it also supplies in this Bill of rights. One provision which the strikers, which people and unions actually wanted, which would allow those men who go out on strike on a legitimate strike to still have a right to vote in a union election, even for a year after the strike.

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His start. I think it's going to do much to democratize unions and the cleanup unions, and that's what we refer to as this so called Bill of Rights. Now here's another letter from a man over in Orlando which says that I don't believe that this bill is strong enough.

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I think that you fellas deserted the principles of the land and Griffin Bill. Well, I would have to say to that man that possibly he wanted to pass maybe a teenager Bill. We didn't want to pass opportunity Bill, but we didn't want to pass. The bill would forget and correct the proven evils that are now exist in some of the labor unions.

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And for that reason, we adopted the best features of the landing Griffen Bill. And I think the best proof of that is that both Landers and Griffin supported the bill in its entirety and said that 90% of it was their billed. As a matter of fact, Senator Kennedy said that 95% of it was the landing dripping built, and only 5% of it was the Kennedy bill.

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It's a good bill. It's an effective bill. It's a strong bill. Here's another letter from a union man in mind says I'll never vote for you again for supporting his union busting bill. Well, this is not a union busting bill. Probably men didn't support me anyway.

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But I would say this. This is a fair bill. It's going to bring democracy to unions. The Taft Hartley bill did not eliminate labor or labor unions. It was sent back to 1947. It was a slave labor bill. That was not the case. This is going to be a very effective bill for all union men, and it will not hurt the union movement.

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Thank you very much for looking, and I hope you'll look in again at the same time next week.