Montana labor news., 1945-08-30
PROMINENT PEOPLE
JOBS FOR ALL
BY ANDREW ]. BIEMILLER

Congressman from Wisconsin
We are years late in preparing for full
peacetime employment. The release,
Harvesting and use of atomic energy
make imperative the immediate enact
ment of a thorough full employment
program. If we fail, democracy and
peace will die in a rain of atomic bombs.
By LISTER HILL
Senator from Alabama
Our postwar strength and stability de-
pend on jobs. It is around a job that
the individuals hope for a normal life
in the future is built.
We have performed production mir
acles in this war. We must build firm
upon the foundations of the Atlantic
Charter and the -Four Freedoms and
with other peace loving nations strive
with all our mind and heart to see that
the advances of science are used to bring
the blessings of liberty, security and a
higher standard of life to the common
people.
We must have freedom from want if
we are to have freedom from war.
By FRANK HOOK
Congressman from Michigan
The swift events leading to the close
of the war point up more than ever the
imperative need for national Legislative
action on the problem of peacetime I'M
employment. The Full Employment Bill
must be enacted as essential legislation
not only to insure against disastrous de-
preston but to lay the economic ground
work for lasting peace abroad. I hope
we nave learned the lesson that a healthy
domestic economy is a vital link in the
chain which must forever bind up the
forces of war.
BY MARY T. NORTON
Congressman from New Jersey
If we are ever to achieve permanent
world peace, the United States must take
the lead in giving our people an oppor-
tw o engage in full and productive
en- Jyment. Wars are fostered by dis
content, poverty and idleness but the
seeds of war would have no chance to
grow in a happy and busy America. We
cannot ask American servicemen and
women, who have made such great sacri-
fees on the battlefield, to return to a
United States which has made no pro-
vision for their employment in civilian
life. Those who make experienced war
realize what permanent peace means and
they can only take the lead in promOt-
ing world peace if they are contented
and active at home. Congress must take
the initiative in supporting a program
to insure full employment and good
wages.
BY PAUL V. McNUTT
Chairman, War Manpower Commission
We Americans are the key people in
the emerging global battle for security
and peace. The peoples of the United
Nations are looking to us, for they re-
alize-as do we-that no greater service
to a permanent world peace and pros
perity can be rendered by the American
people than to make steady progress to-
wards the great goal of full employment.
BY LEWIS B. SCHWELLENBACH
Secretary of Labor
Full employment in the United States
will be an important factor in main
tanning peaceful relations among the
nations. Through it we can reach full
production to aid in reconstruction work
and thus lead the world out Of chaos
and to a stability which will go far
toward insuring a future of peace and
prosperity.
By DENNIS CHAVEZ
Senator from New Mexico
Wherever there is unemployment, there
is labor unrest, and whenever there is
labor unrest, the angels of peace grow
afraid. The worldwide depression Of
the early 1905, more than an other
single factor, was the underlying cause
Of World War II. American labor, in
this 51st Anniversary Celebration of
Labor Day will do well to aim its sights