The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-08-07
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bill, the various bureaus and ser
vices of the Labor Dept have been
made shambles. The U. S. EN-
ployment Service has been weak
ened; the Bureau of Labor Stats
tics has been reduced so that facts
needed by both labor and manage
ment in peaceful collective bargain
ing cannot be promptly and accur-
ately assembled and made avail
able while they are still timely;
the Bureau. of Labor Standards is
down and very nearly out; the
Wage & Hour Division, with an
impossible administrative load i'm
posed by the so-called portal-to-
portal amendments, has a pitifully
inadequate budget with which to
attempt the job.
"9-Cutting back low-cost public
power development by set of bills
that would require such projects to
sell electricity at the generating
point, at the same time exempting
a large proportion of privately
owned utilities from the regulation
of the Federal Power Commission.
No neater formula for delivering
consumers of electricity to the ten
der mercies of the private power
interests at the private utilities
own price could be devised.
"10-Attempting to divide, weak
en- and destroy labor unions by the
Taft Hartley act which carries the
seeds of the sort Of industrial war
this nation suffered in the twenties
and thirties when strong corpora
tions attempted to club, gas, shoot
and terrorize workers into employ
ment on the employers own
terms"
The California Congresswoman
contended that "In achieving the
immediate detectives of the NAM,
the real-estate lobby, the railroad
lobby, the private power lobby, and
the coalition of special interests
comprising the anti-labor- lobby,
the Republican Party has succeed
ed to an extent that must be graft
flying to them."
In a strong warning note, Mrs.
Douglas continued, "We are about
to take off on another round in the
infiationary spiral. With other ma
tions crying for food, farm and in
dustrial machinery. and materials,
supply continues to be below the
real demand at home and abroad.
At the same time, millions of peo-
pie, here and abroad, are being
priced out of the market for food,
clothing, cars, refrigerators, wash
ing machines, farm machinery, and
the heavy capital goods necessary
particularly for the rehabilitation
of the productive plant in other ma
tions."
Emphasizing that prices are con-
tinuing upward but wage rates are
tagging, Mrs. Douglas told the Re-
publicans point blank, "Our econ
omy, careening along on a dizzy
spree, is building up to big let
down. The economists tell us the
bust that will follow will not be a
little depression. 1t can be big,
stubborn and long-lasting. 1t can
deliver the rest of the world to the
final desperation of totalitarianism
and put democracy in danger here
at home. If, for example, the steel
industry's shortsighted estimates
of future steel capacity should be
allowed to come true, we would
have, by 1850, some 100000 un-
employed and a few years later as
many as 100000 unemployed"
ALREADY it is apparent" Mrs.
Douglas concluded, "that the cir
culatory system of our 1925 billion
economy is dangerously out of bal
ance, that profits are not getting
back into wages, salaries and pur-
chasing power fast enough for the
masses of our people to buy back
what they produce and what they
need to maintain an American
standard of living"