Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-03-01
Bill 10 Draft Nurses
May Lend Strength 10
Work -JaiIMeasure
BY J. A. OLEARY.

The compulsory work bill for
men. still caught behind milder
Senate substitute, may gain some
strength from the nurses draft bill
If that measure wins House approval
before the manpower issue is de-
cided.
The two issues were tied together
for the first time in debate yesterday
afternoon by Senator Brewster Re-
publican, of Maine, one of the spon-
sors of the labor-draft bill for men
Is to As, which already has passed
the House.
Senator Brewster told his COL
leagues he had just received letter
from his son in hospital in France.
in which the boy made this plea:
Give us the nurses that these
boys must have to live"
Issue Is Sidetracked.
Then. referring to the decision now
confronting the Senate of choosing
between compulsory or voluntary
ihdIiPOWCl COliti Olof toClldJOi IoICW-
ster declared:
Il cannot join in supporting the
May bill drafting nurses the
women of this country-to go, as ap-
parently they must, and not ask
young men who are able to help out
in any way in their power here at
home"
The manpoWer issue was side
| tracked temporarily today by the
Joint session of Congress to heal
President Roosevelt's report on the
Yalta Conference, and by the VOTE
on the nomination of Henry A. Wal.
lace to be Secretary of Commerce
which was made special order O.
| business for this afternoon.
| Chairman Thomas of the Senate
Military Affairs Committee though
there was a possibility the Wallace
nomination might be disposed of il
| time to permit vote today on thu
first amendment to the manpoWel
| bill, to halt the induction of essen.
tial farm workers into the Army +
appeared more likely. however thai
the manpower debate would MOI
be resumed until tomorrow.
Substitute Favored.
With a final vote not likely un-
til next week.. the odds still favor
passage of the committee substitute
based on the War Manpower Com
mission system of labor manage
ment cooperation to induce work
ers to move to essential jobs.
Supporters of the compulsory
House bill began to fight for tina;
measure yesterday. however. when
Senator Bailey. Democrat. of North
Carolina took the floor to label the
Senate substitute "watch-and
wait bill'' which, he said, contains
mo fight and no work"
/ Hitting at the committee argument
that the War Manpower Commits.
sion labor ceiling plan has brought
unity between industry and labor
Senator Bailey asserted that "wt
are rot legislating for industry ane
labor, but for our country"
| Kiigore Takes Issue.
! Picturing three-fourths of tn,
Allied western front as being hel,
by American forces, Senator Bale.
said they would soon need NOR
tanks, guns and nurses, and con
tended the committee substitute
fails to meet the need as outlined b.
! the President and the militarl
leaders.
Senator Kilgore. Democrat, o
West Virginia, one of the craftsmen
of the committee substitute, chal
lenged the North Carolinian's argu
ment by inquiring if it is not alst
true that three-fourths of the west
ern front is held by the sons of TIT
men Senator Bailey wants to draf
! for work.
THE sons were driven" Senate
Bailey retorted. why can't W,
drive the fathers?"
Senator Kilgore responded tina
when the sons were drafted for mill
tary duty they knew who their EN-
ployer was and for whose prof
they we're working. Senator Bale.
replied that munitions and othe
war supplies involved in the man
power bill are being made for tn
United States, and added, 1--WE toll
those boys as we sent them fort
that we would stand by them to tn
last dollar and the last ounce"
Can't Shift Responsibility.
When some one suggested tn
House labor draft bill covers onl
men Is to As, Senator Bailey sal
that if he could get vote on tn
measure by raising it to 18 to g.
II d do it"
Answering the argument tina
management as well as labor favor
the committee substitute, Senate
Bailey said Senators cannot shii
their responsibility to the presider
of the Chamber of Commerce, or t
the heads of organized labor.