The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-12-31
HOFFMAN PLANS TOCREATE JOBS
 FOR 20 MILLION
Traders Betting Hitler Will Commit Suicide Before
 NOv., lo43

South Bend. Dec, t-.tUpl The United States will Hose the peace unless definite planning is done now to provide post-war jobs for 10000 . 100 Gemobllged soldiers and war workers by raising our production of civilian goods to a record annual rate of $lSS 000, GOO GOO within two years after the war ends, according to Paul c. Hoffman, chairman of the Committee for Economic Develop mcnt,
 Hoffman, who also is president ol Stakeholder Corporation, warned shat the job of creating full em. eloyment in post-war America "is she toughest assignment that com lerco and industry have ever tackl- sd,"
 Isn't 1t obvious" lac asked, "that f we wait until the end of hostili- les to Start figuring out how we are going Co provide jobs, the best we could hope Co offer would be too few, too late
 Emphasizing the scoop of the task that will face the nation when peace returns, Hoffman pointed out that his postwar goal for civilian production would be 35 per cent greater than cur Si00,000 900 000 output in l9l0 -- Amcriea's record peacetime year,
 And we must reach that new high level quickly y.-at most within two years--unlesS we are to have millions of people walking the streets looking for jobs, he said,
 Hoffman based his calculations on the assumption that government war needs will be curtailcd drasti- cdlly when fighting ends and that Host war contracts will be cancelled promptly followed by demobili2a- ton of the bulk of our armed forces and armament workers
 Hoffman estimated that most of the 20000000 workers now in war Industries would be seeking peace tme Jobs shortly after the war ends and that at least 6000000 fo the s 100000 men under arms would be returned to civilian life as rapidly ls possible, Allowing for the Elim- nation Of several million marginal workers, including women to whom jobs are rot essential hc inserted there would be well above 20000,- O0o in real need of jobs in the post wnr period
 Assuming a civilian production of S75010 00e coo annually by that time rthe expected output for l9i3l, HoH- man said that "at least an addi- tional $6000o o000o0 output Of peacetime goods and services" will ta required to provide jobs for that number Of people,
 Hh acknowledged that the num- ber-Jne Job at present is winning the war, but contcndcd that post war planning ceud be carried on simultaneously,
 "it is my studied oplnlon' he said, "that if we defer winning the peace until nfter we have won tEe war. we may lose the peace, Tn SO far O. the United States is cor. cernsd, winning the peace must in- 7ludc the continued protection of the Bill of Rights for us as indiyi- auals and relative freedom from rcgImcntatIon for US as businessmen md workers
 "T2 our free society Is to be main- 'ained Hoffman added, jobs -- must be mace available in peace- lime industries fin the shortest pos dble space of time after hostlIitIes ease Otherwise we shall have mass unemployment for too long a pericd History shows clearly that f there too much unemployment for too ong time free society gives way o dictatorship.
 T cite Italy and Germany as eS. ,mples. We fin America have ro time o lose We must start working now m program to provide those obs"