The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-12-13
Michigan in
Washington
BY ESTHER VAN W. TUFTY

by EoIHEh VAN w. TUFI1
Eighty per cent OF women war
workers in Michigan want TO keep
on working after the war. the Won.
ems Bureau. Department of Labor
estimates.
Michigan is among the % states
without a minimum wage law to
/ protect women.
Director OF the Women's Bureau.
Frieda Miller, following a two day
conference with church, manage.
ment, labor and other groups, made
public a "reconversion blueprint
for women. Briefly, the major
proposals are:
1. Analyze jobs for women as
to kind, number. possible transfer
Of war skills to civilian application.
2. Protect women against dis.
criminatory lay-offs from cut.backs.
3. Open a service to train and
refrain women and counsel them
for peacetime jobs.
I. Establish adequate minimum
working conditions in industries
traditionally for women compar-
able to those demanded during war
time.
5. Provide funds for demobiliza-
ton OF women, making transfer
possible to critical labor areas.
6. Advance plans for public
works as a means for supplying
new Jobs for women.
Z. Insist women be named on all
municipal postwar planning com.
missions.
Miss Miller said the objective of
the conference was to study WON.
ems prospects In relation 10 all post
war planning to find the solution
to the anticipated unemployment
OF women.
In a recent congressional hearing
on war shortages, Senator Homer
Ferguson asked Lieutenant General
Brehon Somervell II 1t wouldn't be
a better idea TO raise wages in
critical industries to attract more
labor than to hold out the promise
OF a bonus"
Somervell did not think so. The
advantage of the bonus is that It
would not be paid unless the work
er sticks on the job until the end
of the war" he said.
No frontline shortages have been
felt yet, but they will be unless
manpower shortages in the critical
industries can be licked this
month.
The first step towards a consti'
rational amendment repeating the
Senate's two-thirds vote control
over treaties was made in the
House Judiciary Committee vote Of
Il to 4.
Every peace-loving country has
its eye on the United States Sen
ate. worried that again the two
thirds vote on treaties may prevent
our entrance into an international
or-anization. The urging is
strong that the rule be changed to
a majority vote Of both houses.
Such a change has been talked
about for years. long before the
forthcoming treaty issue was i'm
minent.
The 20 word proposed amend
ment reads. Hereafter, treaties
shall be made by the President by
and with the advice and consent OF
both houses OF Congress" This
must pass both houses by a two
thirds vote before it is submitted
to the state legislatures. OF which
three-fourths must approve.
The only Michigan man on the
Judiciary Committee. Earl Michen-
er. voted to report out the amend
ment. and will vote for passage on
the floor.
Oldtimers in Congress predict
that the Senate will not give up
exclusive and traditional control
over treaties.
Should the resolution clear the
House, only to be buried in Sen.
ate pigeonhole, leading advocates
outside of Congress have broadly
limited national campaign to
shake 1t loose.
A University of Michigan profes-
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