Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-04
Roosevelt
Wants Ford
Organized
Nudge 10 Recess House
Ties in With Strike
BY PAUL MALLON
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WASHINGTON. April Il
y There long has been a con-
yiction among the elders of
Congress that the first but
undiScloSed plank in Mr.. Roose-
veit's personal program for labor
was organization of Henry Ford
and Little Steel.
There has not been much
doubt about il in the past. The
sages have oftimes said mot
in public the President would
never do anything to harness the
runaway labor SNOWFALL until 1t
had encompassed these two OBJ
-ieetipes.
Certainly, it is true, the final
nudge to send the House out OF
town for 10 days came from the
administration the day OF the
Ford strike. The recess had been
planned before. because the con-
greSsmen expected no rest Tor
the remainder of the year but
Speaker Rayburn himself has
intimated privately the recess
resolution was taken up by the
administration and hurried along
so as to keep the legislators
from grasping the strike
dilemma by the horns
THESE strikes for wages in
L crease pnin1 10 Intlatlnn--
The advertised theory behind
most of them is that labor
should have a wage increase be-
cause of expanded industrial
activity.
The government has laid down
the rule that management shall
not have any increases. Takes.
have been levied which success
fully confiScate the increased
earnings of management. There
lore the only way increased
Il afsaid- t4s4t ,-ss--t.9i-
management TO decrease ITS
earnings and foot the bill.
But every Jne knows this viii
not be done unless management
has suddenly gone collectively
looney. The only other logical
source. and indeed the only ac-
tual source, Of paying increased
wages is through increased
prices.
Further increased prices VIII
sponsor agitation for further IN
creased wages, up and up and up.
The process squeezes the hvell-
hood of the white collar man on
a fixed salary and eventually
the spiraling upward Of wages
and prices will injure the Waite
Of money and. therefore. the
value of everything owned by
every one. including the home
and the car of the worker.
There is Just one detour poSSi-
BILE in this dangerous road ahead.
II is the suggestion that the
government might step in and
stop price increases some day II
II can.
NOU National GuardSmen can
plan on more than a year S
service. but drafted tralnecs
have fair chance to get back
home at the end of thSaH ear II
they want. and if war &oidcd
The selective service commits
sion issues a deAal every time
any one says tralneeS VIII te
kept beyond a year. Actually
no decision has been reached
Yet the army wanted Is months
in the first place and tried a
compromise of Is months before
/ Congress fixed a year.
The current training however
Is planned on a l2-month basis
and the army wants to get m
other men to replace trainees al
that time. What rs likely &c
happen is that the army prob
ably will allow those TO go who
want to 90 and keep those who
will remain Such program
would suit present needs
THE Senate appropriation
L committee decided TO dc
some Justice for clogged an
traffic between the United State
and Europe by extending Pan
Americans subsidy to American
Export Lines. but don't chez
yet.
Chairman Glass agreed Il
postpone consideration two
weeks TO permit senators 10 sc
up speaking data Actua. rea
son for the delay is to allow
Pan-Am TO organize campaign
against letting a shipping line
co into the air business in com
petition with Pan-Am.
What's wrong with a Shipplni
line being in the air business i
not yet apparent. but a senator
is preparing a four-hour speech
TO develop something.
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