Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-01-22
Green Proposes
|45-Hour Week
With Overtime
AFL Head Gives Plan
To Spur Production,
Help Beat Initiation
BY the Associated Press

ment and labor voluntarily set
up a 45-hour work week on an
overtime pay basis as a means
Of producing more goods and
helping to beat imitation.
The 74-year-old labor leader told
the Senate Banking Committee that
labor would consider the extra work
hours if Congress, in turn, would
approve an effective means fol
hating the price spiral.
This would include most of the
10-point anti-inflation program rec
commended to Congress by President
Truman, except standby authority
to control wages, Mr.. Green said in
a prepared statement.
Mr.. Truman indirectly opposed a
longer work week at his news con-
ference today. When reporter told
the President that Charles E. Wilson
of the General Motors Corp. has
proposed lengthening the work week
Mr.. Truman responded that Mr.
Wilson is living in 1890. The Presi-
dent noted that there are two Will
sons-the head of General Motors
and President Charles E. Wilson OF
General Electric. The latter, he
said, is more realistic.
Extra Hour Of Work a Day.
Mr.. Green suggested an extra
hour Of work a day. He told a
reporter that this would mean an
increase from the present 40-hour
work week in most industries to As
hours, with labor receiving time and
one-half pay for the extra five
hours.
81 offer this suggestion as prac-
tical recommendation of the ways
in which employers and workers
could Jointly make contribution
to the authorization fight" Mr..
Green said in his statement.
He estimated. that 100000
workers now employed in manufac-
turing would provide an additional
5000, 900 "manhours of production
per day" under his proposal.
At 1880 O'Clock tonight, the COM
mittee will hold an unusual overtime
session in an effort to speed deci-
sion on legislation designed to check
imitation. Representatives of the
grain industry are listed as wit
nesSeS.
The swelling chorus of Republic
can opposition to Mr.. Trumah's
proposals was joined yesterday by
former President Herbert Hoover.
Hoover Calls for More Work,
In a statement outlining his views
on European aid and the related
problem Of the domestic economy,
Mr.. Hoover termed it an "illusion"
that scarcity and imitation ''can be
more than temporarily retarded by
compulsory fixing Of wages, prices
and rationing." -,
ANY such course" the former
chief executive declared, "sets up
chain reactions which ultimately
decrease production : and defeat
their very purpose"
He called for voluntary measures
plus more and harder work"
Earlier this week, Thomas Ken
nedy, vice president of John l.
Lewis United Mine Workers, testi-
fed that the UNIV is emphatic
ally opposed to- re-establishing
wage-price controls. MIR. Lewis or
ganization recently Cancelled its AFL
affiliation.
One bill before the committee
would authorize the, Agriculture De-
partment to prepare for meat ra-
tioning, including the printing OF
ration books.
A subcommittee headed by Sen
ator Flanders, Republican, Of Ver-
mont, a co-author, will hold sep
arate hearings on this measure
starting January %.
House May Delay Hearings. \
An identical bill has been intro
duced In the House by Representa-
tive Javits, Republican, of New
York. but Chairman Wolcott of the
House Banking Committee said he
contemplates no hearings on the
measure "for q long, long time"
The full Senate Banking Commit
tee heard vigorous protest yester-
day against any move either II
ration or clamp price controls or
meat.
The testimony was from Wilbur
La Roe, jr., counsel for some zoe
companies which belong to the In.
dependent Meat Packers Assocta'
ton.
Mr.. La Roe told the committee
that despite Agriculture Department
forecasters of a serious shortage by
spring there will be IAN adequate
supply of meat" this year unless
there is some form of price contro
which diverts meat to illegitimate
channels"