Evening star., 1935-04-05
Desires Ub>to>Date Utopia
Representative Sadowski Would Back
New u. S. Money With Labor.
BY WILL p. KENNEDY,

~ ESTABLISHMENT of an up-to-
date Utopia in these United
States Is contemplated by
IL Representative G Gorge G..
Sadowski, Democrat, of Mich
igan, now serving his second term in
Congress. through a bill pending be-
fore the Ways and Means Committee,
which he Is urging for early consid-
Grafton.
Sadowski is Detroit born and edu-
Gated. although he attended a high
school in Alabama. He took his law
degree when 81 years of age, and has
been successful in real estate develop
ment and the building business
besides being part owner Of q golf
club. He is active In Democratic
politics, the Polish Falcons and other
societies.
New Crop of Queer Bills.
Each Congress brings out a flock
of freak bills and the legislative
drafting service is driven distracted
trying to put some of the pet phobias
and obsessions of fledgling members
into proper legislative language in
bills and resolutions than will never
get any further than a committee
pigeonhole With the depression and
unemployment prompting countless
legislative noStrums and cure-al
quackery the present Congress has
brought out a new crop Of queer pro-
posals-but the drafting clerks have
been so busy on the big administra-
tive relief measures, sitting in with
the committees that their time has
been mortgaged to such an extent that
they couldn't be bothered with the
ordinary routine bills. Contemplating
the great mass of freak measures they
heave a healthy sigh of relief for
their SurceaSe.
But this fellow Sadowski didn't
need their help-he had his series OF
conferences and put his own draft
into the legislative hopper. And here
is all he sought to do:
ITO stabilize and standardize money
and labor prices by establishment OF
q labor-hour monetary system. to
guarantee work to all at all times. to
give normal prosperity, prevent de-
pressions and for other purposes
too numerous to mention here.
Urges New Type Currency.
His first proposal is that there be
coined, printed and issued by the Gov
ernment of the United States of Amer
lea a new form of money to be based
upon one hours labor as stabilized by
this act" This money would be in
the same denominations as money now
in uSe-to be continued as the de-
mands of commerce may warrant"
All present money would be retired
and reissued as labor-hour- r-dollar cur
rency-gold or other precious metal
would no longer be coined. The new
standard for measuring basis of value
of the money would be lone hour
minimum unskilled or common labor
in the United States, which is to be
81 per hour"
The method of stabilization Sadowski
proposes is for the Government to
take up the slack in the labor market
by offering constructive emergency
labor to any one who asks for it at a
sliding scale low enough to compete
with private industry, yet high enough
to force private industry to pay 81
per hour minimum"
The Sadowski bill would authorize
an appropriation of $4,000, 100000 Of
labor money to carry on emer-
gency labor projects for two-year
period.
The Secretary Of Labor would be
required to make study of Govern
ment employment so as to recommend
to Congress a wage system at rates
ranging from 81 an hour minimum to
IS per hour (the compensation of a
cabinet member).
The Secretary of Labor would be
empowered to offer free of charge to
any local or State government any