S. 613, A BILL TO AMEND THE HOBBS ACT

HEARINGS

BEFORE THE

SUBCOMMITTEE ON CRIMINAL LAW

OF THE

COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY

UNITED STATES SENATE
NINETY-SEVENTH CONGRESS

FIRST AND SECOND SESSIONS

A BILL TO AMEND SECTION 1951 OF THE UNITED STATES

CODE, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES

COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY

STROM THURMOND, South Carolina, Chairman
CHARLES McC. MATHIAS, JR., Maryland JOSEPH R. BIDEN, JR., Delaware
PAUL LAXALT, Nevada

EDWARD M. KENNEDY, Massachusetts ORRIN G. HATCH, Utah

ROBERT C. BYRD, West Virginia ROBERT DOLE, Kansas

HOWARD M. METZENBAUM, Ohio ALAN K. SIMPSON, Wyoming

DENNIS DECONCINI, Arizona JOHN P. EAST, North Carolina

PATRICK J. LEAHY, Vermont CHARLES E. GRASSLEY, Iowa

MAX BAUCUS, Montana JEREMIAH DENTON, Alabama

HOWELL HEFLIN, Alabama
ARLEN SPECTER, Pennsylvania

VINTON DEVANE LIDE, Chief Counsel
QUENTIN CROMMELIN, Jr., Staff Director

SUBCOMMITTEE ON CRIMINAL LAW

CHARLES McC. MATHIAS, JR., Maryland, Chairman PAUL LAXALT, Nevada

JOSEPH R. BIDEN, JR., Delaware ARLEN SPECTER, Pennsylvania

HOWARD M. METZENBAUM, Ohio ROBERT DOLE, Kansas

HOWELL HEFLIN, Alabama
MICHAEL R. KLIPPER, Chief Counsel

Ralph OMAN, Staff Director

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CONTENTS

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Hearings held on:

Thursday, December 10, 1981.

Thursday, March 11, 1982................

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STATEMENTS OF COMMITTEE MEMBERS

Mathias, Senator Charles McC., Jr......

Dole, Senator Robert

Grassley, Senator Charles E.....

Thurmond, Senator Strom .......

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CHRONOLOGICAL LIST OF WITNESSES

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1981

Rose, Jonathan C., Assistant Attorney General, Office of Legal Policy, Depart-

ment of Justice ...........

Gold, Laurence, special counsel, AFL-CIO, accompanied by Ray Denison,

director, and Howard Marlowe, associate director, Department of Legtsla-

tion, AFL-CIO..............

Larson, Reed, president, National Right to Work Committee, accompanied by

Rex Reed, attorney.............

Ross, Alan G., Associated Builders & Contractors, Inc., accompanied by Rich-

ard Markey, special legal counsel ......

Supica, Jim W., president, Associated General Contractors of America, accom-

panied by Brian Deery ...

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THURSDAY, MARCH 11, 1982

Thompson, Robert T., chairman, Labor Relations Committee, U.S. Chamber of

Commerce, accompanied by Arthur Rosenfeld, labor law attorney, U.S.

Chamber of Commerce.

Houston, John Charles, director of congressional affairs, Public Service Re-

search Council................

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Legg, John S., Universal Utility Contracting Co., Woodinville, Wash., repre-

senting the National Utility Contractors Association

Previant, David, chief labor counsel, International Brotherhood of Teamsters,

accompanied by Robert Baptiste, counsel, International Brotherhood of

Teamsters ......

Rupp, John P., Covington & Burling, representing the American Civil Lib-

erties Union, accompanied by Scott Gilbert, Covington & Burling.. ...............

ALPHABETICAL LIST AND MATERIAL SUBMITTED

Gold, Laurence:

Testimony ..............

Prepared statement .........

Enclosures-

The Truth About the National Right To Work Committee Charges,

appendixes A through Q..

Bombing Incidents by Motive, Including Property Damage for 1979-

80, table .......

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United Electrical, Radio & Machine Workers of America ...

AFL-CIO: The Truth About Incidents Cited In Testimony

Letters from

United Steelworkers of America to all U.S. Senators
Senator Strom Thurmond to Lloyd McBride, international president,

United Steelworkers of America...

Farm Labor Research Committee to Senator Charles McC. Mathias,

Jr...............

Article: "Crimes Committed in the Name of Labor,” from the Harrisburg

Patriot, November 25, 1981 .........

United States v. Thordarson, opinion of the Court, U.S. Court of Appeals,

Ninth Circuit ............

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Previant, David:

Testimony

Prepared statement

Great Coastal Express, Inc. v. International Brotherhood of Teamsters,

Chauffeurs, Warehousemen and Helpers of America, memorandum, U.S.

District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, Richmond Division ...

Rose, Jonathan C.: Testimony .......

Ross, Alan G.:

Testimony..

Prepared statement ..............

Rupp, John P.:

Testimony ..........

Prepared statement ...

Supica, Jim W.:

Testimony

Prepared statement

Summary of Testimony of S. 613......

Thompson, Robert T.:

Testimony ..............

Prepared statement .............

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APPENDIX

PROPOSED LEGISLATION

S. 613, a bill to amend section 1951 of the United States Code, and for other

purposes .....

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ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS FOR THE RECORD

Amy E. Conn, public information officer, Highlands Regional Medical Center..

Affidavit of Helen Smith ....

Statement of beating ......

Incidents at Highland Regional Medical Center ............

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Samuel Eisenberg, manager-secretary of Plastic, Moulders & Novelty Work-

ers' Union, Local 132, International Ladies' Garment Workers Union, AFL-

CIO.....

Exhibit A: Complaint and Notice of Hearing ...

Exhibit B: Order scheduling hearing.............

Exhibit C: Picture of James Grecco......

Exhibit D: Charge against employer ...............

Sam J. Ervin, Jr.................................

Donald T. Fritz of J. T. Fritz & Sons, Lutherville, Md....

Anita di Luzio, Greenfield, Mass .......

Mike Matthews, president, Electro-Harmonix, New York, NY

John B. Parrish, professor, Northeast Louisiana University, Monroe, La ...

Mark Pirkle and Claude Lee Prater

John H. Seats, executive vice president, Mary Helen Coal Co., Belfry, Ky

Deanna V. Ussery, Hot Springs, Ark .............

Ron and Karen Yokom ..

American Farm Bureau Federation..............

AFSCME.........

National Association of Manufacturers............

Railway Labor Executives Association .....

LETTERS SUBMITTED FOR THE RECORD

Letters to Senator Charles McC. Mathias, chairman, Subcommittee on Crimi-

nal Law, from:

Emily Perry.

Allotta, Singer & Farley Co., L.P.A., attorneys and counselors at law.........

Bruce Schreiber ............

Vernon Winzeler, manager, Brian-Dawn Trucking, Inc.............................

Howard E. Rew ....

LEGAL DOCUMENTS

Affidavits pertaining to-

Felton Construction Co. v. International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauf.

feurs, Warehousemen & Helpers of America, Local 252, et al .......

Universal Utility Contractors, Inc. v. Laborers International Union of

North America, Local 374, et al ........

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Incident reports...

Depositions of Joseph Mannino:

Letter to Van de Kamp, district attorney, Los Angeles County.

Declarations of -

Joseph Mannino............

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Barbara Kaupang .................

Douglas Johnson ......................................................................

Vanetta Garrio.....................................................................................

Bill Thornton .......

Letter of resignation to Douglas Moloney, Graphic Arts International

Union, Local 262...

ARTICLES

Newspaper articles relating to labor violence from various areas of the coun-

try........................ .

"Labor Violence: The Inadequate Response of the Federal Anti-Extortion

Statutes," by Thomas R. Haggard, professor of law, University of South

Carolina School of Law ....