Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-08-12
Scant HopeSeen
For House Shift
On job|ess Bill
Hearings to Begin
Tuesday; Georges
Plan Passes Senote
By the Associated Press.


Keeling under crushing Sen
ate defeat of the Murray -Kilgore
reconversion plan, administra-
ton Democrats moved hopefully
today toward an attempt to re-
vive in the House their program
for higher Federal benefits for
war workers.
Their chances of success looked
slim. Several members OF the House
Ways and Means Committee, which
will start hearings Tuesday, made
it clear they lean strongly toward
the States rights" bill OF Senator
George. Democrat, of Georgia, which
Republicans and Southern Demo-
Gratis pushed to Senate passage last
night, IS to l9.
Representative Carlson, Republican.
of Kansas predicted that the Ways
and Means Committee, which in
cludes a number of States rights
advocates. also would approve the
George bill or something close to it."
Barley Favored Murray Plan.
Senate Majority Leader Barley
swung to the Murray Kilgore side
in the closing Senate debate, and
later made it clear the fight for
Federally- fixed insurance payments
to displaced workers had not ended.
He termed inadequate the State
unemployment systems carrying
payments of sl3 to SO weekly for
temporarily idle workers, adding:
Il hope the House will amend and
expand the bill so that it will pro-
vide amply for dealing with the
problem of the postwar unem-
ployed, and also that it will be
broadened to deal with other phases
of reconversion."
At one point in the debate Sem
ator Maloney, Democrat, of Con-
necticut moved to send the whole
business back to committee for an
adjustment of differences, but Sen
ator Barley opposed this. saying it
would mean an indefinite delay"
RecommittaI Beaten.
Siding with Senator Barley, Sen
ator Vandenberg, Republican, OF
Michigan said:
God help us if the war IS over
before Congress completes this legis-
lation." The motion lost, So to IA.
| AS passed by the Senate. the
George measure sets up an Office Of
War Mobilization and Reconversion.
headed by presidentially appointed
director to handle rehabilitation
planning.
| 1t also brings an estimated $780,
900 Federal employees under State
unemployment insurance programs
at Federal expense and sets up
Federal loan fund to guarantee the
solvency of the State funds. but
leaves full control of unemployment
insurance rates to the States.
The Murray-Kilgore bill would
have created more elaborate recon-
version machinery. fixed uniform in
surance rates as high as s35 weekly,
provided for Federally financed vo-
cational training for idle persons
and substantially boosted mastering
out pay and jobless payments to re-
tuI ling wal VETERANS.
Never Reached Direct Vote.
1t never reached a direct Senate
vote. The first ballot was on part of
the George program offered as
substitute, and that carried, 40 to Is.
On final passage, when it was
clear the Murray Kilgore proposal
was doomed, Senator Barley and
several other hackers swung over to
the George bill.
Senator Barley deplored a par
iamentary situation which did not
| permit direct vote on the Murray.
kilgore bill itself.
Il had hoped I could vote affirm.
atively for the Murray Kilgore BILL"
he said. L hope the George bill
will be amended and expanded in
the House to make it satisfactory
legislation that will amply provido
for dealing with the unemployment
problem"
Sharing the view that the George
bin was inadequate, Senator OMa-
honey, Democrat, of Wyoming de-
clared that nevertheless it lis a step
in a very long journey toward the
reconversion of the United States
to peacetime basis"
The fact that advocates of tho
Murray-Kilgore bill lost, he said.
docs not mean that the philoso-
ply" behind their fight has been
abandoned"
State Integrity an Issue.
Senator Hatch, Democrat, of New
Mexico retorted that 1.-The philoso-
ply Of that bill is being killed now"
The voting started after Senator
George told the Senate the main
issue was whether the Senate
(See RECONVERSION, Page A-2J
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