The union times., 1944-07-01
Both Parties Get
 Recommendations
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(COntlnued from Page One) Nations to establish the peace, safe guard the peace, and to enforce the peace if necessary. Such an agency can be created without the surrender of national sovereignty and through its functional capacity can serve to promote and maintain peace, guaran- tee freedom and justice for all"
 The text of the A.F.L. plank on full employment and housing, and wages and hours follows:
 ''Congress and the Executive De partments should cooperate in the creation of full employment for all. Full employment and maximum production will serve to enable our own country to meet its financial obligations and assist other cOun- tries in the development of stable, sound economic plans. We can achieve full employment and full production only through adequate planning and coordinated under takings.
 SsThe change from a wartime to a peacetime economy will increase the necessity for the establishment and maintenance of a shorter work week, not to exceed 40 hours. The payment of high wages should be correlated with the maintenance of this standard work week in order to maintain an adequate national income and assure the purchasing power necessary to sustain high levels of production.
 "A federal program of needed public works should be launched and should be awarded to private contra ctors in order to supplement employment in private industry during reconversi0n.
 'sWe urge the adoption of conn prehensive housing program de signed to provide suitable homes for the families of our citizens this program to include slum clear ance and the construction of low cost homes for low-incOme fami- lies. There is a great social and economic need for the preparation and launching of most compre- hensive national housing pro gram."
 The problems of reconversion and reconstruction are dealt with in this plank:
 "We have reached that stage in the war where the problems of re- conversion and contract termination compel attention and consideration. We cannot ignore the economic con- sequences which we anticipate will follow the close of the war The re- conversion of industry from war material production to civilian pro- duction plants should be brought about as quickly and as constructively as possible in order to prevent wide spread unemployment. Plans for re- conversion and contract termination should be formulated and agencies for reconstruction should be created for the purpose of dealing with these vital postwar problems. In order to promote the realization of this objec- tive, we urge the enactment of legis- lation which will provide:
 ''First, for the creation of an Office of War Economic Mobiliza- ton and Reconstruction with a Policy and Review Board made up of representative of labor, indus trial management and farmers.
 Second, that wartime restrictions on manpower and wages shall be promptly terminated at the close of the war and that an effective peace time employment service be estab- lished on a national basis which will in no way interfere with employment policies established through collective bargaining.
 Third, for the creation of an emergency unemployment fund out of which unemployment benefits shall be paid to unemployed workers and >de- mobilized soldiers. Labor regards this as a national responsibility.
 Fourth, for demobilization pay ments to be made to those serving in the armed forces with the opportunity extended them to continue interrupted education and training, and with ade- quate medical care and rehabilitation provisions for the injured.
 s'Fifth, for the resumption of op- erations by private business, facili- tated by having in operation plans and provisions for:
 a. negotiation of contract can. celIation, b. prompt settlement of claims, C. removal of government property from plants, d. disposi- ton of government surplus prop. erty in an orderly manner designed