Evening star., 1943-06-17
Lengthy Battle Seen
On 0PA, owl Funds
In House Debate
Republicans Seek Slash
In Appropriations for
War-Born Agencies
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
A battle over the 1914 finan-
cial allowances for the Office of
War Information and the Office
of Price Administration shaped
up in the House today as debate
opened on the $2,921 AL ,5O4 ap-
preparation bill carrying funds
for 18 governmental war agen-
cies.
Republican lawmakers privately
served notice they would attempt
to slash the allocations OF both war
born bureaus. and possibly others,
with the likelihood the ensuing con-
troversy would develop into the
longest fight of the Seventy-eighth
Congress over an appropriations bill
Both Republican and Democratic
legislative spokesmen conceded that
the argument over the omnibus
fiscal measure might stretch to the
point where it could interfere with
a summer recess scheduled to start
July 10.
War Department Bill Due.
Meanwhile, the House awaited ar
rival late this week OF a $4,000
100000 appropriation measure for
the 1914 War Department expenses,
record-smashing bill calling for
twice this country's entire outlay
for the World War.
After cutting $500,0OO from the
funds Of the National Labor Rela-
tions Board and denying War Man.
power Chief McNutt a $4,000 salary
increase, the House yesterday passed
and sent to the Senate a 81 O86, ,059,-
499 supply bill for the Labor De-
partment, Federal Security Agency
and War Manpower Commission.
No effort was made to restore
funds for the National Youth Ad-
ministration, abolition of which was
recommended by the Appropriations
Committee. Only $1,000 900 for NYA
was provided In the bill, which or
dered liquidation of the agency by
January /.
BY a teller vote of SO to Sc, Mr.
McNutt's salary boost from $4,000
to SIS 900 was eliminated. AS head
Of the Federal Security Agency, Mr..
McNutt receives $4,000 year. He
receives no additional pay for ad-
ministering VINO.
Taber Hits Proposal.
The committee urged the increase
to bring the salary to the level of
those paid heads of other wartime
agencies. But Representative Taber,
Republican, of New York. told the
House it would violate the Presi-
dents hold the line order against
imitation and the Little Steel" wage
increase formula. Furthermore, the
New Yorker asserted, the little fel-
lows" whose wages have been frozen
would resent $4,000 pay boost to
a man already receiving $4,000
The House also wrote into the bill
ban against the NLRB handling
any case arising over bargaining
agreement between management
and labor unless a complaint is
filed within three months after the
agreement is signed
Representative Otter. Republican.
of Pennsylvania said the effect of
this would be to discourage activi-
ties by the board which some people
feared would tend to encourage
rather than to discourage strikes" !"
The boards purpose under the
Wagner Act" Mr.. Otter said, was
to encourage peace in labor rela-
tions."
Kaiser Case Covered.
One case covered by the amend
ment is the issue involved in the
Kaiser Shipyard complaint case now
before the board. In that case the
CIO brought complaint against
the Kaiser yard charging that Mr..
Kaiser's closed-shop agreement with
the AFL was Illegally entered into
when only small fraction of the
Kaiser yards employees had been
hired.
The s50OO00 cut in the NLRB's
fund from $1,815,000 was sponsored
by Mr.. Taber. He told the House
that employees of the board have
gone out of their way to promote
labor disturbances" and said that
they had prompted disagreement
on the West Coast between two
unions in the Kaiser shipbuilding
yards"
Representative Hare. Democrat,
OF South Carolina, in charge of the
bill, said the Appropriations Com
mittee already had reduced the
boards salary funds by $500 900
before it reached the floor, on top
Of 100000 slash last year. He