Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-08-08
Rep. Douglas Hits
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ing votes in the 1948 primarie.
and elections.
5-Stalling on even the ersatz
health program to be limited ia
charity cases; put off to next
year for the same reason, to
catch votes.
g. Stalling on any long-range
housing program; probably
killed by the real-estate lobby
-Stalling on FEPC, on anti
poll tax and anti-lynch legisla-
ton until 1948 when one or
more may be enacted depending
on the Republican estimate of
the election prospects.
Chops Down Services
S-Systematic chopping down
of services to farmers, ranch
ers, miners and wage earners in
reckless reduction of the appro-
priations for the Agriculture,
Interior and Labor Departments
Contradicting the fine
phrases of friendship for labor
that accompanied the Taft
Hartley bill, the various bureaus
and services of the Labor Dept
have been made a Shambles.
The u. S. Employment Serv-
ice has been weakened; the Bu-
reau of Labor Statistics has
been reduced so that facts need
ed by both labor and manage
ment in peaceful collective bar
gaining cannot be promptly and
accurately assembled and made
available while they are still
timely.
The Bureau of Labor Stand
ards is down and very nearly
out; the Wage & Hour Division,
with an impossible administra-
tive load imposed by the So
called portal-to- portal amend
ments, has pitifully made
quate budget with which to at
tempt the job.
9--Cutting back low-cost pub
lie power develoment by a set
of bills that would require such
projects to sell electricity at the
generating point, at the same
time exempting a large proper
tion of privately owned utili-
ties from the regulation of the
Federal Power Commission.
TIL Bill
1O-Attempting to divide i,
weaken and destroy labor
unions by the Taft-Hartley act
which carries the seeds of the
sort of industrial war this ma
tion suffered in the twenties
and thirties when strong cor
porations attempted to club,
gas, shoot and terrorize work
ers into employment on the en-
ployers' own terms"
The California Congresswom-
an contended that In achieving
the immediate ohjectives of the
NAM, the real-estate lobby, the
railroad lobby, the private pow
er lobby, and the coalition of
special interests comprising the
anti-labor lobby, the Republi-
can Party has succeeded to an
extent that must be gratifying
to them"
In a strong warning note,
Mrs. Douglas continued, 1--WE
are about to take off on another
round in the inflationary spiral,
With other nations crying for
food, farm and industrial ma
chinery and materials, supply
continues to be below the real
demand at home and abroad.
At the same time, millions of
people, here and abroad, are be-
ing priced out of the market for
food, clothing, cars, refrigera-
tors, washing machines, farm
machinery, and the heavy cap
ital goods necessary particularly
for the rehabilitation of the
productive plant in other ma
tons"
Already it is apparent"
Mrs. Douglas concluded, that
the circulatory system of our
$225 billion economy is dan
gerously out of balance, that
profits are not getting back into
wages, salaries and purchasing
power fast enough for the mass
es of our people to buy back
what they produce and what
they need to maintain an
standard of living"