The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-06-15
BY PETER EDISON
Monitor Leoder Washington
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ne OId song OF TOW lou
Coin TO Keep EN- Down On
the Form2" is now compIicot-
ed further by the old SOW,
What Will You Use for
Money!"
On the one hand, Paul V.
McNutts War Monpower
Commission issues q couple Of
fancy directives, one to the
Farm Security Administration
telling FSA to increase the
number Of mobile labor camps
in order to make available
enough farm labor to achieve
the Food for Victory object
i've; the second directive to
FSA and the Office Of Defense
Transportation to assure ode
quote transportation facilities
to move migrant agricultural
workers.
On the other hand, FSA
comes back with the word that
j. has no money to increase its
mobile labor camps, ond OOT
makes it unanimous by soyinC
that it has no money to move
the workers, even if FSA had
camps to put them in.
So, if anything gets done in
the immediate future, it seems
the money will have to come
out Of that good old reliable
kitty the Presidents emereen-
cy fund. The policy committee
Of the War Monpower Conn.,
mission has passed q resoIu-
ton to impress on Congress
and the Bureau Of the Budget
the necessity for oIIocoting
funds for these migratory farm
Ioborers, but resolutions oren't
exactly folding money, yet.
Today, FSA has 95 migro-
tory labor comps on its books
As permanent, 43 mobile
and six being set up. 1t has
mode surveys to indicate
where $50 additional camps
might be located.
HIT BY REVOLT
The Bureau Of the Budget
recommended that for the year
beginning July !, S3.5 million
be given to FSA for migratory
Iobor camps. The House Of
Representatives, in revolt
against FSA, completely elm
mated the item. The Senate
restored it, but put O limit Of
Sl.4 million on the amount to
be spent for camps. If the CELL
ing stoys at that level, FSA
will not only be unable to
open additional camps but it
will have TO close down over
half Of the 95 camps now run
ming. If that happens, listen
to the formers yell and watch
{ Congress to O magnificent
obout-foce TO set up these
moIigned Dixie camps once
more.
The situation is even more
binding for the Office Of De-
Tense transportation. Although
il got this directive from the
Monpower Commission on Moy
r. ODT hasn't done anything
about the situation for the
simple reason that it couldn't.
OOT also has no money to
spend on transporting migront
workers. OOT furthermore is
not in the transportation busi-
ness. 1t owns no buses, no
tires, no gasoline. When q
transportation crisis arises, ali
ii can do is clamp down on
some unnecessary transporter
ton in some locality and d.
rect that the equipment thus
O d e available be used in
some other service. Thus, it
put the sightseeing buses in
to regular transportation chan
neIs, houIine war workers. But
to expect ODT to step into
every rural community where
there is q farm labor shortage
and mobilize transportation TO
farm labor around is too
much.
FSA Administrator c. B.
Baldwin has testified tn
there ore thousands and thou
Of farm Ioborers qvoil-
if they can be moved
where they ore needed.
IAPHAZARD JOB
Recruiting Of form labor 4,
nos been hophozord, Baldwin ,
1sserts, ond the resulting /