Evening star., 1945-11-27
House Group Urges
Immediate Ban on
Strike Vote Funds
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By the Associated Press.
!. Moving to halt Government
supervised strike elections, the
House Appropriations Commit
tee recommended today that all
funds for this activity be can
celed at once.
The recommendation, subject to
approval of both the House and the
Senate, was made in a 81 ,l31, ,452,3 ,3l2
appropriation bill to meet deficien-
cies in funds previously appropriate
ed for many Federal agencies for
the fiscal year ending next June 80.
Strike elections have been, con-
Quoted by the National Labor Rela-
tions Board under provisions of the
Smith Connally War Labor Disputes
Act. Separate legislation repeating
the strike-vote requirement and i'm
posing stiff curbs on labor unions is
pending in the House but will not
be acted on until the supply bill
approved today by the Appropria-
tions Committee is disposed Of. prob
ably Wednesday.
Would Cost S2,400.000.
The committee estimated at 81
400, 900 the cost of conducting strike
elections during the next seven
months.
Noting that the strike-vote pro-
vision was wartime proposal. the
committee said the need for 1t has
passed. 1t added that the regular
work of the NLRB, which has re-
auested repeal of the strike-vote
requirement, is being delayed by the
elections.
In addition to denying new funds
for such elections, the committee
recommended that money already
appropriated be returned to the
Treasury.
The $1,131,4 ,452,3l2 recommended
for the various agencies supplied by
the bill was a reduction of $576.-
042,136 from budget estimates, rep
resenting one of the biggest per-
centage slashes ever proposed by
the committee.
Cuts Made without Prejudice"
However, more than half of the
reduction was made without pref
udice" to reconsideration later.
Among the without prejudice
cuts were s24 100000 for temporary
housing for veterans, sl58,320, 900
for hospital and domiciliary facili-
ties for veterans, and sl28, ATS 900
for river and harbor and flood con-
troll projects. All these items. the
committee said, should be reviewed
later by a committee dealing ex-
clusively with them.
OF money actually approved, s928,-
100000 was for national service life
insurance handled by the Vet
Grams Administration. The new
money, augmenting 5000 900 900 pre-
viously approved by Congress, is
necessary, the committee said, be-
cause of deaths of service personnel
who carried the reduced-rate ma
tional service insurance.
! In cutting almost every item 1t
considered, the committee cautioned
that further slasfes must be made
in Federal spending.
| Psychology Must Be Dissipated.
"It is rare to meet with witnesses
who evidence a conception of the
need to contract governmental
spending the committee COM
|mented. "a spending psychology
has grown up in Government which
must be dissipated."
In cutting 95,000,00o from D.
SLOT 100000 request of the Federal
Works Agency for advance public
works planning, the committee criti-
cized the Reconstruction Finance
Corp. for action it said borders on
counteracting" previous congress
sional mandate.
The $4,000, 900 cash and s57,5o0.-
600 contractual authority the FWA
sought, and which the committee
cut to a total of s12,5o0,o00 cash,
contemplated stimulating interest
in an annual construction program
estimated at $500, 900 900.
Action Conflicts With Law.
"It appears now that in order to
get construction underway, the Re-
construction Finance Corp. will
make loans or cooperate with pri-
vate leaders," the committee said.
The law with respect to the ad-
vance planning program expressly
provides that the making Of loans
or advances in pursuance thereof
shall not in any way commit the
Congress to appropriate funds to un-
dertake any projects SO planned
Since the Government Is response
BILE for RFC loans. the COMMITTEES
said, the action of that agency con-
fiicts with existing law.
To curb the RFC, the committee
wrote into the bill a proviso prohibit
ing loans by any Federal agency to
build projects for which plans have
been financed through the advance
planning program, unless Congress
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