The union times., 1945-11-24
Only Wreckage Seen Emerging From Congress
Even The Words ''FulI Elm ployment'' May Be
 Cut From Act

Working in secret, a House Expenditures Subcommittee slowly is cutting the Admins tratiOn's Full Employment Bill to pieces.
 When the bill emerges, it may not even carry the words ''fun employment as a goal.
 Chairman Carter Manasco O., Ala.) said this week he expected the subcommittee to eliminate from the bill not only the promise of Government action % ''assure'' full employment, but even the words full employment. He said these words were misleading to the public.
 This is the entire heart of the Ad- ministrationS bill. Its elimination would leave nothing even approaching the original concept of the Full Elm ployment Bill. The most that it would achieve would be to set up a planning agency-but there would be no assurance that the recommenda- tlonS of the agency would be even considered by Congress.
 TIME COAL LOST
 Meanwhile hope for achievement of President Truman'S goal of action by Congress on the Full Employment Bill by Thanksgiving was gone. The Manasco subcommittee-which was set up more than week ago-has not yet had formal meeting and won't until next week It was doubtful whether the subcommittee would be ready to act by Thanksgiving.
 The committee has held a few informal sessions, but according to its members has not yet done any thing.
 While waiting for the subcom- mittee to act, Rep. Andrew J. Bic. miller O., Wis.) took the House floor to support it and ran into a row with Rep. John Rankin O.. Miss.), which resulted in Rankin taking another public licking.
 Biemiller, ridiculing the charge of communism made by opponents of the Full Employment Bill, said:
 Yet some of our people are so misinformed that they cry 'commun- lst' at every measure with the slight est touch of liberalism, at every per- son who has had new idea since 1860. In so doing they bring more opprobrium on themselves than on the cause or the individuals they at tack"
 ABE NO COMMUNIST
 Biemiller went on to note that Rankin was well known for his ability to see a communist in every woodpile" and cited a report that Rankin had called Abraham Lincoln a communist.
 Rankin jumped up to deny he had ever said such thing, and Biemiller won the round by retorting:
 'Mr. Speaker, I am delighted to have the record show that there has been at least one liberal in the past century that MT. Rankin does not consider a communist"
 Enraged, Rankin denounced the re- mark as personal insult" and asked Speaker Sam Rayburn to silence Bic miller for the rest of the day for vio- latlng House rules. Rep. Howard Smith O., Va.), one of Rankin's allies, called for a quorum.
 But all the quorum call did was to roundup the House members to see Rankin humiliated. When the quorum was gathered, Speaker Sam Rayburn had the Biemiller remark read and then pronounced he did not find any thing in the language that tran greSSes the rules of the House" He told Biemiller to continue with his speech.
 BITTER PROTEST
 Rankin protested bitterly, but to no avail. Later he took the floor to as- sert that Biemi1ler had attempted to smear him with "the most unjusti6ed' inSinuation he ever had heard. The Mississippi poll-taxer proclaimed that he was a liberal and not reactionary.
 When he concluded he was ap- plauded by the Republicans and one or two Democrats. The others sat silent.
 NEW SIGNATURES
 One of the by-products of Rankin's action was flock of new signatures on the petition to abolish his Com mittee Investigating un-American ac- tivities.
 Many new signatures also were at tached to the petition to discharge the House Ways and Means Committee from further consideration of the bill providing more adequate unemp1oy- ment benefits for discharged war workers and veterans.
 More than 50 of the 218 sigma lures necessary to bring this meas ure before the House have now been obtained, but the goal will not be reached without more pressure from the public to force their Con- gressmen fO ginm nm. y.