The union times., 1945-08-04
Our Nation Must Be Ready For Peace
Continued from Page One) Attitude of Three Republicans

Senator Wayne Morse, Republican, of Oregon, speaking also for Senators Charles w. Tobey or New Hamp- shire, ranking minority member of the committee, and George D. Aiken of Vermont, supported the bills prin- ciples but stated that at least four amendments would be offered. He de- clared that greater emphasis should be given in the bill to the role private enterprise would play in the program, that agriculture required greater rec ognition and that "full employment" and Government investment" should be defined more clearly. elf you don't make the capital istic system work here," Senator Morse declared, s'there is a very real danger that we will lose de- mocracy. But the American people are too we'll educated and too well informed to accept the idea that simply because of recurring busi- ness cycles they must accept unem- ployment and hardship"
 Senator Wagner said that it was misleading to talk of the full em- pIoyment'A measure as Govern ment commitment to provide jobs for all.'' He added that it provided for a program ''of, by and for the people, and proposed "a commit ment on the part of the American people that we shall have continu- ing full employment after the war;"
 'We shall need to maintain" he asserted, "an average postwar an- nual income for the nation almost twice as high as in the so-called prosperity year 1929, a postwar an nual income, on per capita basis, at least 50 per cent higher than 1t was before the war.
 Cites Shift to Peace Field
 "We shall have to do all these things. and more, in the face ot the release of 2O,OOO,OOO or more able bodied adults from the armed forces and from immediate war production. . We shall need to do them III the tace of a drop in the demand for war goods and services which runs up to $lOO,- 0OO,OO0.0OO year.
 ssWorId peace must rest on ever increasing world prosperity. World prosperity without American pros- perity is manifestly too preposter. Ous to contemplate. The splendid edifice of the Charter which we are now building, if not accompanied by full employment m Amerlca' \ would be like a factory without a dynamo. Recent events in other \ democracies convince me that this \ fundamental truth is permeatlng inc minds of more and more
 He declared that the bill rejected, rather than espoused, the theory that public employment was the man avenue to full employment or that full employment required continued deficit spending.
 The measure embraced the idea, < he added. that cooperation between enterprise and government, guided by the proposed annual inventory # of the economic problems with which both must deal, would lead to increasingly high levels of em- \ ployment in private enterprise.
 esBut.'' he went on, ''the bill does moi blink at the fact that any Gov ernment worthy of the name has the bedrock responsibility to see that the right to work is fully re- aIized. even where it means direct actiOn."
 Senator Murray asserted that an. other depression after this war would mean millions of disillusioned and job Mess veterans and workers "who will have little interest in the maintenance of a system which fails 10 offer them continuing opportunities for useful employment"
 Analyses Buying Power
 Senator O'Mahoney asserted that not among the wealthy but among inc rank and file rested the purchas- aing power to prevent another depres- sion.
 sSThe people who were receiving z: less than $2,OOO a year in l944. . :. he said, ''had total income o1