The union times., 1945-12-22
'UnhOly Alliance
 ShOves Through Feeble Measure
Rep. Monaco Admits It's Everything Murray-Wag-
 ner Bill Is Not

WASHINGTON-OPA)- The full employment bill. hope of millions of Americans who may find themselves iOb. less in the postwar years, was knifed to death last week bv the House of Representatives By a vote of 254 to l26 the House passed a bill that has only farcical resemblance to what President Truman cited as must" Legislation.
 The original bill proposed by the administration was first watered down by the Senate and then referred bv the House to a committee headed bv Rep. Carter Manasco (D, Ala.), which Spewed out a legislative mon stroSity that had nothing to do with full employment.
 OUTT4AND VOTED DOWN
 Rep. George K. Outland O.. Calf. ) tried to stem the reactiOnary flood by substitution of the original House bill which incorporated the Presidents and IabOr's demands but this was voted down by voice vote.
 Only remaining hopes of salvagin4 the betrayed legislation now lies in the possibility that Truman will re- quest the Senate and House confer. ees to reinstate some of the bills origi. nal strength. That hope was dim. however, even with the possibility of Iruman's intervention Armed with the two-to-one majority the House confereeS are expected to hold out for as complete an emaSeuhtion as pos- Sible of the bill's original purpose.
 LABOR NOTES ENEMIES
 All sections OF organized labor which had supported the original proposal and fought necessarily for six months for it's. passage made careful note of the Representatives who voted '1fOr unemployment" A complete new House will be elected next ENOVemDcPs
 No matter what comes out of the House Senate conference now, labor leaders agreed, the eventual legisla- tiOn will offer no assurance that a vetrean or war worker can find enl- ployment if private enterprise fails to provide jobs. Many observers were inclined to place blame for the over whelming defeat on failure of the ad- nliniStration to put sufficient pressure on Democratic House members. In addition, labor leaders condemned the strategy that dictated an attitude, at the crucial point, that amounted to: "No floor fght-we'1l pin our hopes on the Senate-House conference"
 "PRO-BUSINESS''-
 The extent of ManascO's conn plese corruption of the full employ ment hill was admitted by the Ala. baman himself in an interview with a reporter. His sub-cOmmittee he a d m itted sardOn1eally. didn't change the number of the bill. ''In fact, all we changed wae the body of the bill," he said. Asked how, ManascO replied, "We just rewrOte it to mean the entire opposite. We made it pro-business, prO-free en- terprise; in fact everything the Murray-Wagner bill is not"
 Fifteen national organizations, in cfnding the AFL, CIO, and Railroad Brotherhoods, branded the Manasco version "wordy and meaningless" and asserted that I've stand firmly by the original proposals which declare, III unequivocal terms, the responSibil- ity of the Federal government for full employment, responsibility under scored by the presidential candidates of both major parties in the last na- tional election. We urge the spon- sOrS to stand firm for a measure which will provide the basis for maintaining full employment in a democratic America"
 At the same time the Union for Democratic Action called on Presi- dent Truman to "stiffen Administra- tion opposition to the bill and to wage an all-out fight for the Full Employ ment Bill overwhelmingly passed By the Senate last September. IT,"
 BIEMIILER FIGHTS
 Rep. Andrew J. BiemilIer O., Wisc.) i'm a blissering attack on COngressmen who have sabotaged the legislation told Congress, ''Here is bill that would give the worker some hope that respectable jobs will be available at all times, that he will not have to depend on leaf raking projects or garbage-can charity as proposed during the last depression by Gen. Hurley. But what happens? First the Senate waters the bill down. In the House the Committee reports out a measure that resembles the original bill about as much as Satan re- sembIes St. Francis. The present feeble measure is as kkely to stop a wave of unemployment ais a dam of fwigs and loose sand would be