1 ment of this Act, if any of the required information is not 2 available an answer "no information" shall be suflicient. 3 (b) Violations of this section shall be punishable by a 4 fine of not more than $2,000, or by imprisonment for not more than one year, or both. 5 6 7 RESTRICTION ON POLITICAL CONTRIBUTIONS SEC. 304. Section 313 of the Federal Corrupt Prac 8 tices Act, 1925 (U. S. C.. 1940 edition, title 2, sec. 9 251; Supp. V, title 50 App., sec. 1509), as amended, is 10 amended to read as follows: 11 13 "SEC. 313. It is unlawful for any national bank, or any 12 corporation organized by authority of any law of Congress, to make a contribution or expenditure in connection with any 14 election to any political office, or in connection with any 15 primary election or political convention held to select candi16 dates for any political office, or for any corporation whatever, 17 or any labor organization, to make a contribution or expend18 iture in connection with any election at which Presidential 19 and Vice Presidential electors or a Senator or Representative 20 in, or a Delegate or Resident Commissioner to Congress are 21 to be voted for, or in connection with any primary election. 22 or political convention held to select candidates for any of 23 the foregoing oflices, or for any candidate, political commit24 tee, or other person to accept or receive any contribution 25 prohibited by this section. Every corporation or labor organ 1 ization which makes any contribution or expenditure in vio2 lation of this section shall be fined not more than $5,000; 3 and every officer or director of any corporation, or officer 4 of any labor organization, who consents to any contribution 5 or expenditure by the corporation or labor organization, as 6 the case may be, in violation of this section shall be fined 7 not more than $1,000 or imprisoned for not more than one 8 year, or both. For the purposes of this section 'labor organi9 zation' shall have the same meaning as under the National 10 Labor Relations Act." 11 SEPARABILITY OF PROVISIONS 12 SEC. 305. If any provision of this Act or the applica13 tion of such provision to any person or circumstance is held 14 invalid, the remainder of the Act and the application of such 15 provision to other persons or circumstances shall not be 16 affected thereby. Passed the House of Representatives April 17, 1947. Attest: JOHN ANDREWS, Clerk. 80TH CONGRESS 1ST SESSION H. R. 3020 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES MAY 13 (legislative day, APRIL 21), 1947 Ordered to be printed with the amendments of the Senate AN ACT To prescribe fair and equitable rules of conduct to be observed by labor and management in their relations with one another which affect commerce, to protect the rights of individual workers in their relations with labor organizations whose activities affect commerce, to recognize the paramount public interest in labor disputes affecting commerce that endanger the public health, safety, or welfare, and for other purposes. 1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, [To avoid repetition, there is deleted at this point the provisions of H. R. 3020 as passed House, and stricken by the Senate. These provisions appeared at pp. 158-225.| 6 "FINDINGS AND POLICIES "SECTION 1. The denial by some employers of the right 7 of employees to organize and the refusal by some employers 8 to accept the procedure of collective bargaining lead to strikes 9 and other forms of industrial strife or unrest, which have 10 the intent or the necessary effect of burdening or obstructing 11 commerce by (a) impairing the efficiency, safety, or opera12 tion of the instrumentalities of commerce; (b) occurring in 13 the current of commerce; (c) materially affecting, restrain14 ing, or controlling the flow of raw materials or manufactured 15 or processed goods from or into the channels of commerce, 16 or the prices of such materials or goods in commerce; or (d) 17 causing diminution of employment and wages in such rolume 18 as substantially to impair or disrupt the market for goods 19 flowing from or into the channels of commerce. 20 221 "The inequality of bargaining power between employees who do not possess full freedom of association or actual 22 liberty of contract, and employers who are organized in the 23 corporate or other forms of ownership association substan 24 tially burdens and affects the flour of commerce, and tends 25 to aggravate recurrent business depressions. by depressi 80TH CONGRESS 1ST SESSION H. R. 3020 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES MAY 13 (legislative day, APRIL 21), 1947 Ordered to be printed with the amendments of the Senate AN ACT To prescribe fair and equitable rules of conduct to be observed by labor and management in their relations with one another which affect commerce, to protect the rights of individual workers in their relations with labor organizations whose activities affect commerce, to recognize the paramount public interest in labor disputes affecting commerce that endanger the public health, safety, or welfare, and for other purposes. 1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, [To avoid repetition, there is deleted at this point the provisions of H. R. 3020 as passed House, and stricken by the Senate. These provisions appeared at pp. 158-225. | |