Detroit evening times., 1945-09-26
PAUL
NIALLON
Behind
The News

W This newdealing craze for
full employment gets more
interesting as it develops.
a Midwest senator has come
back from his home town say
ing he has decided 10 vote
against the whole business.
The real trouble, he says, is
too many people worked in the
ordnance plant at $50 and S85 a
week and will not 60 back TO
the $40 and $50 a week jobs
now fully available, and crying
TO be filled.
Wonderingly, / checked my
home town and found many
workers from the torpedo plant
did not want the hundreds of
jobs daily offered in alluring
advertisements saying: I'VE
VIII ride you TO work" Will
pay while you are training" and
I'VE have the incest room and
bath and will pay you $50, SIS
or $50 with all your living eX-
penseS If you will just come
help with the housework."
The non-Workers can cash
their victory bonds; can look
forward to getting $40 week
un m p loyment compensation
for six months; and promised
food allotment free from the
government, which is not bad
when you consider that this
does not entail paying the with
holding tax, and odd jobs all
paying 65 cents and rs cents an
hour, and the price of whisky
is high enough TO make a little
moonShining and bootlegging
profitable on the side w h n
necessary, of course.
AT least, a surprising eager
ness for work is not apparent,
and the right not 10 work is
being widely maintained.
NOW comes the weekly men,
Y tor of practically all
economic fadism, The New Re-
public saying they planned 1t
this way. This is the point of
the full employment" bill in
congruous as it seems. The way
to keep futt employment, it eX-
plains, is to have more Jobs
than workers. To do this there
must be "a shift of workers
from the less pleasant and re-
muneratlve Jobs and no one
is going to do these any more.
This government-made shortage
of labor will destroy the domes-
tic science industry, for in
stance. l gather houSework and
cooking are to be considered
beneath the dignity of the per-
sonality."
60 YOU can see now what
~ this full employment bill
means by establishing into law
the right TO a job you like. at
a salary you like, under hours
and conditions you like"
If you do not love your work
or dislike anything about IT,,
you can lay off on unemploy-
ment compensation and a food
stamp plan to improve your
nourishment regardless Of en-
ployment opportunities.
But how are you going TO
run a nation that way, if you
could raise the money?
Can you maintain an army
without any one peellng pota-
toes?
Indeed, can you maintain a
nation without full-uSe of the
talents, aptitudeS and varying
abilities of all classes of people? ?
IF YOU think the basic idea
Il is silly, wait until you get
down to the details where the
incongruity spreads to its col
loSSaleSt.
For inSpance, one provision
calls for socialiZed medicine. and
all the doctors 10 work on a
salary for the government.
All the high earnings Of phy-
siCians would be cut TO monthly
government salaries and the tax
revenue from their present earn
ings Mould be lost, and their
currently-PFeduetipe- high cco.-
nomic contributions tin spend
ing for products as well as
taxes wholly destroyed with
a corresponding decline in ma
tional income and in consumer
demand for goods.
Plans to cut the government
work-week again from 40 Cit
was 4S) 10 30 hours have al
ready been proposed in bills.
This keeps salaries where they
were and prevents normal utili-
ZatlOn OF the talents. abilities
and aptitudcs of the nations
manpoWcr.
1t does not increase purchas-
ing power or create more en-
ploy m ent opportunities; it
merely shares the-work, less
work for the nation as a whole,
therefore less productivity and
less tax revenues 10 sustain a
-hleA-eeeHenfy,- needed for futi
employment.
Now If you destroy a consid-
cradle portion of the nations
ordinary work by reclasSifying
II as lower-grade falsely be-
cause domestic and similar oc-
cupationS now pay more than
factorlcs) and nullify the buy
ing power and taXpaying ability
Of physicians. dentists. nurses