Evening star., 1942-11-05
O'DonieI Introduces
Bill to Suspend
40-Hour Week
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Congressional demands for re-
peal of the wages and hours and
Wagner laws and for a real
coalition" in Congress sounded
today as Senators and Repre-
sentatives expressed their inter-
pretations of Tuesdays Repub-
lican election gains.
Senator O'Daniel, Democrat, OF
Texas, author of the Is and 10 year
old draft bill amendment to re-
quire giving year Of training to
youths before they are sent into
combat service, introduced bill to
suspend the 40-hour work week for
the wars duration to "help solve
our manpower problem"
Almost simultaneously, in the
House Representative Rankin, Demo-
crat, of Mississippi, and Repre-
sentative Rich, Republican, of Penn
sylvania, were demanding repeal OF
the wage hour law and the Wagner
Labor Relations Act, and both called
upon the administration to oust
Communists from key positions"
Mr.. Rich expressed personal hap
piness that his party's rebirth OF
strength had not carried it to con-
troll of the House, maintaining that
the Republicans-if they had that
control-would be condemned" for
any error or misfortune during the
next two years.
MAY Stem Tide"
with enough good Jeffersonlan
Democrats" he added, however, I'VE
may be able to stem the tide and
save the country. We need
eyerv man and woman behind the
President, but we've got to show the
President that he is wrong in lot
of things"
From Mr.. Rankin came the dec
larations that the American people
are tired of this Frankfurter bu-
reaucracy. = The American peo-
pie don't want to be unnecessarily
regimented. = . We have got to
remove the Communistic crackpots
that have been put into key posi-
tions in this administration"
As Stree advice to my administra-
tion," he declared that the race
question" in the South must be let
alone" and declared that "a stop
must be made in the attempt to de-
stroy the States
Representative Manasco, Demo-
crat, Of Alabama declared that it lis
high time that we call to the atten-
ton of some of our department
heads that our enemies will not wait
until we create utopia here at
home, while our boys are dying on
land and sea-
Lets not attempt social and eco
nomic reforms while we are at war;"
he urged.
Mr.. Manasco called also for full,
honest reports from those in charge
of prosecuting the war.
when we enter a naval battle"
he said, Lord knows, we aren't so
dumb that we believe, in licking the
Japs, that we won't suffer some
losses"
Senator O'Daniel said the average
work week ir industry now is 42.8
hours. He said $4,000, 900 employees
were doing what could be done by
Is, 900 900 on a 12-hour, 6-day week,
making 100000 available for other
work.
His bill, he said, would leave the
hours to be worked and the amount
of wages to discussion between labor
and management.
I'm my opinion, legislation of this
nature will be enacted" Senator
O'Daniel declared.
No Unemployment Now.
"The 40-hour law was constructive
when we had unemployment and it
spread jobs among more people. Now
we are at war and there is no
unemployment problem. The 40
hour law has created fictitious and
unnecessary manpower shortage"
Senator O'Daniel said the Ger
mans were working u hours and up
to sc hours a week. the japanese
a seven-day week of more than 16
hours daily, the Russians 66 hours
and more week and the English
60 hours
THE Axis so far has won most
of the battles" he commented.
Senator ODaniel read letters to
the effect that defense workers in
some places were ''loafing on the
job" and that many people on de-
fense projects had been instructed
to slow down.
It was partly to correct such a
situation, he said, that he intro
duced his bill.