The union times., 1944-08-12
President Green
 Serves Notice On Congress, Labor
All Amliates Urged To Bombard Legislators With
 Resolutions, Telegrams

The American Federation of Labor this week spear headed a vigorous drive to jolt Congress into immediate action on recOnversiOn legis- latiOn SO that the nation may be ready to undertake peace production should the war in Europe end suddenly.
 Concerned by reports that Congress intended to mark time until after election so that mem bers facing reelection contests might spend all their time cam paigning, President Willia m Green served notice that labor will not abide such dangerous procraStinatlon.
 ALL MUST ACT
 Meanwhile, MT. Green called upon all AFL affiliates and mem bers to urge their Senators and Representatives to support the Xiii gore Bill. In a public statement he said that the Federation endorses the KilgOre Bill because it seeks to protect human rig ghts as well as property rights during the post war emergency.
 Fears have been expressed that should Germany suddenly collapse and surrender, as some military strate- gists predict, more than ten million workers would find themselves unern- ployed overnight.
 1sImmediate passage of the Kill gore bill is vital to help provide jobs and insurance for demobilized servicemen and disemplOyed war workers" MT, Green said.
 We call upon the members ot Con- gress to act quickly on this important legislation because time is running out. If the war against Germany should end suddenly, before we have made legislative and economic pro- vision for that contingency, the home front would be plunged into chaos.
 ssRight now we are wholly unpre- pared for peace. We have no plans for coping with unemployment, with shutdOwns of war factories or with the problems of reconversiOn. If peace catches us thus unpre- pared. an economic panic jeOpar- dizing any possibility of postwar security and reconstruction may ensue.
 Therefore, I urge Congress to re- main in session until final action can be taken upon this basic legislation" :"
 Senator Barkley, striking similar note of warning, said in his telegram
 It is imperative that members of the Senate Military Affairs Commit tee return to Washington at once in order that proper consideration may be given to vital and indispensable legislation dealing with reconversion, demobilization and surplus property disposition, bills concerning which are now pending in Military Affairs Committee"
 This committee is now considered the bottleneck on postwar legislation, with an undercurrent of hostility pre- vailing between sponsors of rival measures. Besides the Kilgore bill, there is pending a bill sponsored by Senators George and Murray which is not regarded as favorably as the Kilgore bill by labor.
 Senator Kilgore joined with Rep. Emmanuel Celler, sponsor of the same bill in the House, in urging immediate action. They declared that to gain full employment in peace time sswe must find Is mill lion moro jobs than were available in 1939."
 If we plan only for pre-war levels of production, we shall fail," their statement said. We must produce at least 60 to 70 percent more than in 193o. If we do not plan for full employment, any other plans we make will be swept away in the tide of un- employment and depression"