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 until transition to expanded peace time production is achieved.
 "The failure of Congress to ex- tend the Price Control Act for one year without weakening amend ments is bound to bring about wide spread and disruptive industrial strife. It will breed strikes. It will foster industrial unrest against which economic stability is the best and strongest safeguard.
 "The facts justify the conclusion that in order to protect the public interest and preserve the basic principles of our national economy, the President will be forced to veto the amended Price Control Act and to insist on and demand the eX- tension of adequate price control for such a period of time as may be necessary"
 Supplementing this warning to the Nation, MT. Green made public the following statement to Price Administrator Paul Porter and Economic Stabilization Director Chester Bowles:
 "The American Federation of La- bor protests premature abandon ment of price control whether that is done by Congress or the OPA. The current upsurge of rising prices cannot be checked if the Off, flee of Price Administration con- tinues it's disregard of the consum- CT interests. In recent months, with the present Price Control Act still in full effect, a series of adminis- trative actions have brought about wholesale relaxation and elimina- ton of price ceilings by the OPA, climaxed by the order inviting a drastic rise in restaurant prices.
 "The climax was reached in the restaurant order issued by the OPA on June 13, inviting drastic price increases on meals in restaur- ants and in-plant feeding estab- lishments. TAis order, secretly pre- pared, provides for a revision of restaurant price ceilings in form impossible of administration or en- forcement. It will result in a rapid increase in the cost of living of all who depend on restaurants for their meals, especially the veterans and their families and others unable to find homes. It will bring hard ship to millions of wage earners who will have to meet an increase in lunch meals supplied by the lunch rooms and cafeterias at their places of work.
 The OPA has been removing ceiling prices on hundreds of food items on the ground that the prices would not go up to any significant extent. Yet the upward revision of restaurant prices specifically ac- knoWledgeS the drastic rise in the very food items on which price ceilings had been removed.
 "The American Federation of La bor believes that in price control administration the difficult prob- lems now confronting the restaur- ant business must be recognized. Price control should allow fair business return. But labor cannot condone or countenance the cost plus price raising regulations which invite runaway prices on meals. At time when restaurants are doing. capacity business it seems no Justification for the OPA- sponsored profit guarantee.
 We ask that the restaurant price order be rescinded, reviewed and made enforceable. It destroys price control on restaurant meals and sets a precedent for the same un- workable regulation in other fields vital to the consumer.
 Labor insists that effective ad- ministration of price control on all living necessities and other com modities be maintained so long as scarcities persist"