Indiana's Senator Homer Capehart, presiding over a 122-man business advisory committee meeting on foreign-trade policy in Washington last week, nodded toward the heavy eyebrows and invited John L. Lewis to say a few words. John L. rose, surveyed the businessmen surrounding him, and talked for 30 minutes without pause. When he sat down, his audience gave him the heaviest applause of the afternoon. Reason: without ever mentioning the horrid word "tariff," Lewis had managed to roll together all the old demagogic arguments against free trade and give them a fine, patriotic ring....
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