The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-05-02
RECOVERY PLAN
PASSAGE URGED
BY LAGUARDIA.
N. Y. Mayor Demands
Special Committee
BY ROBERT HUMPHREYS

| ny NObEhI HUMPHREYS
UNsJ Warning that I'VE must
act quick If we are going to save
America" Mayor Fiorello H. La
Guardia, of New York, today de-
mande6 that Congress create a
special committee to draft a per.
n.anent recovery program for en-
actment at special session next
fall.
While indorsing President Roose-
velt's $4,712,000, 900 lend-and-spend
proposals, LaGuardia declared
they must be regarded as only tenn
porary relief and not a permanent
solution.
BEST MINDS
We've got to get the best
minds of the nation to work on
this and we've got to do it damn
quick" the fiery little mayor
told the House Appropriations
Committee, now engaged in
drafting the Administrations re-
covery legislation.
LaGuardia was preceded by
President William Green, of the
American Federation of Labor,
who said AFL research shows that
$500, 900 persons have been added
to the ranks Of the unemployed
since the depression began last
September.
Green joined with IaGuardia
in indorsing the Presidents recov-
cry program. They were slated to
be followed later today by another
advocate of spending, John L.
Lewis, of the CLIO.
SPECIAL COMMITTEE
LaGuardia proposed the special
congressional committee be COM
posed of the senior members of
the House committees; on Ways
and Means (taxation), Appropria-
tons, Judiciary, Labor, Agricul-
ture, Interstate Commerce and
Banking.
This committee, LaGuardia
said, should hold hearings during
the summer recess of Congress
and call in leaders of all branches
Of industry, labor and agriculture.
TO END "CHISELING"
Green disclosed that a confer
ence with PWA Administrator
Harry L. Hokqins last week had
resulted in an agreement to end
"chiseling" by WPA sponsors who
were paying less than prevailing
wages.
The complaints, Green told the
committee, had come from the
AFL Building Trades Division, and
were based largely on subunion
wages going to handy men. "
Hopkins, according to Green,
promised to withhold WPA allo-
cations to any sponsors guilty Of
the practice in the future.
At the same time, at the other
end Of Washington's Pennsylvania
Avenue, and across a park from
the White HOUSE, the leading op-
ponent of spending, the United
States Chamber of Commerce,
opened its annual convention with
a warning that pump printing
has proven to be ineffective in
promoting employment and bust
ness recovery.
Representative Woodrum (DO
of Virginia, a ranking committee
member in charge of the measure,
ANNOUNCED testimony Of the trio
would conclude hearings. The
bill, he said, would be whipped
into final form by Friday to be
taken to the House floor next
Monday.
House leaders, confident the
measure can be passed virtually
intact, predicted approval with
not more than three days Of de.
bate. Although sterner opposition
will await the bill in the Senate,
Administration spokesman fore
saw final enactment in time for
Congress to adjourn by June /,
goal Of the leadership.
Tentative plans call for the bill,
the most vital embodied in the
Presidents recovery program, to
Garry outright appropriations
totaling $2,125, O00, 900 and loan
Authorizations amounting to $780,
0O0, 900.