Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-01-02
|0'Mahoney, Seeing
War S End Soon, Cites
Job, Market Problem
BY J. A. O'LEARY.

Predicting German collapse by
June and steady progress against
Japan, Senator O'Mahoney, Demo-
crat, Of Wyoming last night warned
all who are concentrating on in
creased compensation that before
1914 ends their problem may be to
find jobs and markets.
Directing his appeal to Govern
ment, business and labor, Senator
OMahoney urged public and private
leadership to make "a New Year res
olution to forget selfish interests and
work together for the interest of all. !"
The Wyoming Senator prepared
his statement before the publica-
ton yesterday of the assertion by
an unnamed person in high Amer
lean quarters that the railroad and
steel labor troubles may have pro-
longed the European war. 1t, there
fore, had no connection with that
disclosure, but was more general
plea to all groups in the economic
structure.
Predicts Reversal.
"It Is a tragic thing" Senator
OMahoney said, that so many
leaders both in Government and in
business, including labor, apparently
are concentrating their efforts on
increasing rates of compensation,
because before the next IL months
pass the problem will not be rates
of compensation, but it will be jobs
and markets"
Only few days ago Senator
George, Democrat, of Georgia, had
urged Congress to take action dur
ing the next six months on postwar
economic plans, to be ready for the
adjustments that will have to be
made Immediately when the Euro
pean phase of the war ends.
THE Germans cannot continue to
take the beating that is now being
inflicted upon them," Senator
OMahoney continued. 1.-THE fail
ure of Won Mannstein's drive on
Kiev is comparable to the failure
Of the attempt Of Won Hindenburg
and Won Ludendorff to break
through the Allied line in the sum-
mer of 1918. The German general
staff knows that it cannot win, and
10 million homeless Germans within
the German frontier cannot con-
tinue to make the supplies which
the NaZi Army would need for a
prolonged defense
June Set as End for Nazis.
According to my information,
the most conservative Swedish OBJ
servers do not believe that Germany
can endure beyond next June. When
Germany collapses, the one funda-
mental factor that prompted the
Japanese to attack us at Pearl Har-
Dor will have ceased to exist. I
think that Admiral King, in pre-
dieting that our forces would be able
to return from the Pacific theater
by Christmas of 1915 was conserva-
tive. I think there is good reason
to believe that Macarthur and
Nimitz will be hammering on the
ooOA VI Mdlllid Wy July +.
"All of this means that before
another y months have passed the
Government will not be buying the
huge supplies of farm products it
is now purchasing for the Army, it
will not be purchasing the COM
modities of steel it is now buying
for military purposes. Without a
substitute market to take the place
of the deficit purchasing by Uncle
Sam, factories will be closing and
farms will be piling up SURPRISES
without knowing how they can be
disposed of except by distributing
them to the starving populations
of Europe.
"All our thoughts from New
Year Day onward ought to be de-
voted, not to special gains or spe-
cial interests of the groups to which
we happen to belong, but should
be devoted to developing ways and
means of conserving the public in
terest, that is to say, the interest
OF all groups and all classes by
creating new opportunities for the
investment of private money and
new jobs to prevent bread lines for
demobiliZed soldiers and demobil-
lied war workers