Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-08-07
COP Bombs
Postwar Bill
Holds II Puts Labor.
Business in Chains
C IHI DETROIT TIME
Mondey, AUG. 7. 1914
BY DAVID CAMELON
pstrslt Tinsss Wsshingtea Buresu

Detroit Ttnsss Nsshingten Hureau
WASHINGTON. Aug. AR
opening wedge for the subsection
Of American workers and indus
Try, under the international plan
ners Of the suptrytstr.- WIS -tht
Judgment passed by Republican
senators today on the postwar ad-
NSument. or reconversion. bill re-
ported by the Senate Military
Affairs committee.
The measure Is strictly a
Democratic proposal. Ten Demo
Gratis, in person or by proxy, voted
for il In committee. Seven Re-
puhlicans. also by person or proxy.
voted against il. But Republicans
hope TO get the aid OF Southern
Democrats 20 defeat II on the
Senate floor tomorrow.
Senator Revercomh (R) Of
West Virginia, a member Of the
committee. characterized tn c
measure as "the most dictatorial
foreign sounding legislation ever
offered on the floor Of the
Senate"
CENTERS on JOBLEss PAY
Attacks on the bill conferred
largely on the control which II
would establish over lab T
through misuse OF unemployment
compensation. income tax free,
ranging as high as $35 every
week.
The bill would establish
work director" with powers
which would far exceed even war
time controls over labor.
The danger. IL was pointed out,
lies in the federalizing of unem-
ployment compensation. The max
imum rates double. or even triple.
rates OF unemployment presently
paid In many states
The difference would be paid by
the federal government. To share
In the plan. the state unemploy-
ment compensation officials would
have 10 comply with federal regu-
lations. II the states did not COM
ply, the government would step
In. set up its own system, and pay
the difference. In either case the
worker would be subject TO fed
eral regulations.
To clinch federal control. the
L. S. Employment Service would
be continued as the supreme
body. controlling all state employ
ment services. No workers could
qualify ii1!sss ~ registered with
and obeys and edict OF the USES.
FETTERS FOR BUSINESS
Under the new program, the
WPB also must get written con-
sent from the VINO before per-
hitting a manufacturer TO pro-
duce q civilian item. Without that
consent. a manufactures cannot
hire employees 10 produce civilian
goods. since all employment must
be carried on through the USES.
Senator Revercomb said:
THE Implication IL clear.
Control labor, and you control
industry"
But the committees postwar
adjustment bill, the senator
pointed out, has more direct i'm
plications than that. The work
director called for in the bill, he
said. in the exercise OF his powers,
move single workers or groups OF
workers about the country like
chess men.
MANACLES FOR LABOR
ct offers q field day for the
planners" he said They can
strip region A Of labor, leav-
Ing its industry high and dry.
and move them TO region b."
The dictatorship OF labor on a
domestic basis. he said, would be
bad enough. But the implications
Of the superstate are eyen moro
disturbing They are inherent. he
said. particularly IN the control
over labor gwen the Go and its
affiliate. the PAC, with all of its
Moscow associations.