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be interrupted during the process.

Senator Taft, Republican, of Ohio
said he favored cooling off period
in labor disputes during which pro-
duction would be continued.
In addition, Senator Taft declared,
Federal labor activities affecting
defense should be concentrated un-
der one person in order to avoid
confusion.
Chairman George Of the Senate
Foreign Relations Committee, who
piloted the administrations British
aid legislation through the Senate,
said there was no doubt that wide
spread strikes were retarding the
effort 10 help Britain.
Senator George said he favored a
plan under which the Government
could take over plants which because
of strikes failed to supply defense
| articles. Senator Connally, Demo-
crat, of Texas came out for similar
system yesterday.
Senator Barkley told reporters
that even if the Government took
over a plant it might not thereby
remedy a given strike situation. In
addition, he said there was con-
stitutional question whether the
Government could force men and
women to work.
A voice in laborS behalf was heard
last night when James B Carey,
national secretary of c. I. O., asked
a radio audience to bear in mind
the profits of corporations when
you hear talk of the exorbitant de-
mands of labor"
In a speech over the N. B. G. blue
network, he cited corporation profit
reports in terms of hundreds of
millions of dollars and in contrast
said the Social Security Board report
on workers income showed that less
than per cent of the wage earners
had an income of $4,000 year.
! Government research, he said, had
determined that $1,000 year in
come was necessary to maintain the
average family of five persons.
A strike, Mr.. Carey asserted, was
serious business" the last resort
of a union in its dealings with
employers. He added that workers
did not strike Just for the fun
of it, just out of a desire TO do
mischief"
Ford Tie-Up Held Hitler Victory.
Some of the country's greatest
corporations, he said. paid no at
tention to the Wagner Act on COL
lective bargaining and others refused
to listen to requests for wage in
creases.
For the lawbreaking corpora
tions," he added, profits and more
profits poured out in an endless
stream. For the workers who try
to better their living standards,
screaming oratory in Congress-
crackdowns and threats of crack
down by high officials. and an end
less barrage of criticism and vltu-
peration in the press
Going further than his colleagues
in recommending action to restrict
strikes, Senator Overton, Democrat
of Louisiana suggested legislation
yesterday to forbid strikers from
preventing others from working in
defense plants and to give every
citizen the right to work on a de-
fense project, whether or not he was
a union member
In the House yesterday, Repre-
sentative Smith, Democrat, of Vir-
ginia declared that red insurrection
and rebellion" prevailed at the Allis-
Chalmers strike, while Representa-
tive Dondero, Republican. of Mich
igan asserted a strike at a Ford
Motor Co. plant represented "a
notable victory for Adolf Hitler.
The House then ordered separate
investigations of the national de-
fense program by the Military and
Naval Committees.
The inquiry resolution was ap-
proved on a roll call vote of 344 to !,
The lone diSSenter was Representa-
tive Marcantonio, American-Labor
of New York, who said the purpose
was to constitute two great COM
mitteeS into strike breaking COM
mittees." Representative Marean-
tonic has found himself minority
of one also on some defense bills.