Tells of 72 hours labor for steel mill says congress shouldn't listen to William Green's 'blatherings.' Washington, D.C., July 21. Bert Hough, Head of the Steel Workers Organization Committee of Midland, PA., today told the House Labor Committee in a rich scotch burr that the Committee should discard the 'Blatherings of William Green and Tom Girdler, because the Wagner act was not passed to protect them. This Congress should need those of us who come from the mills. Before the passage of the Wasner act. He told the Committee which is considering amendments to the act, he had worked as long as 72 consecutive hours, 7/21/39