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Washington, D. C.—The American
Federation of Labor blasted compul
sory labor legislation at a public hear
ing before the House Military Af
fairs Committee as indications mul
tiplied that such legislation is doom
ed to defeat.
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Hines Blasts Forced Labor Plan As Its Defeat
Is Predicted
Lewis .Hines,. AFL legislative
representative, delivered a two-fisted
attack on the pending May Bill at the
hearing. He charged:
1 That claims of manpower short
ages have been greatly exaggerat
ed.
2 That the May Bill is not a 4-F
draft measure, nor a work-or-fight
bill, but provides for limited compul
sory service for all men from 18 to
45.
3 That sub-standard wages in
critical war plants are the chief cause
of manpower difficulties.
4 That the War and Navy Depart
ments are backing the legislation in
order to place the entire nation un
der military control.
5 That passage of the bill would
"demoralize" war production instead
of helping it.
Meanwhile, Senator James Mead,
Chairman of the Senate War Investi
gating Committee, announced his op
position to the forced labor bill.
The Senator declared his commit
tee would institute immediate hear
ings to investigate the high-pressure
talk about manpower shortages. High
officials of the War Manpower Com
mission, the War Production Board
and the War Department will be call
ed.
In a recent report, the Mead Com
mittee accused the War Department
of wasting manpower by permitting
production of huge surpluses of cer
tain types of war equipment when
the workers in those industries could
have been diverted to plants manu
facturing critical material.
Hines also charged wafetage and
hoarding of manpower in war in
dustries. He also flatly declared that
out of fourteen war industries where
production lags have set in, this con
dition is due to manpower deficiencies
in only one. That is the foundry in
dustry, where wages are too low to
attract workers, he said. The rea
AFL Hits May Bill As Ruse
For Military Dictatorship!
son for lagging production in the
other industries, he said, are changes
in design, suddenly stepped-up sched
ules and lack of facilities.
The War and Navy Departments
and the Selective Service System are
not competent to do the job of round
ing up manpower, Hines stated. He
insisted that the responsibility should
be left to labor and industry on a
voluntary basis.
"To those who would use forced
labor to avoid correcting the causes
of manpower shortages, we say: 'This
is the way to delay the war effort,
not to speed it'," declared Hines.
Meanwhile, business and farm
groups continued to assail the "draft
labor" proposal just as vigorously as
the trade union movement. One of
the most bitter attacks on the bill
was made by the National Association
of Manufacturers.
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Seamen Skip Holidays
To Keep Ships Sailing!
Urges Effective Organization To Aid War Veteran and
War Worker Find His Way Back in Peacetime
Washington,. D. C.—Reconversion of
war industry henceforth will be en
tirely dependent on the progress of the
war, President Roosevelt told Con
gress in his budget message.
Because of the present war situa
tion in Europe, the war production
has brought practically all reconver
sion moves to an abrupt halt.
In his message, the President made
some important recommendations for
action by Congress on human aspects
of reconversion which have as yet been
ignored. He said:
"The human sire of reconversion
requires effective organization to aid
each discharged war veteran and war
worker to find his way back into pro
ductive peacetime employment. As
far a| veterans are concerned, the
basis is laid by the Servicemen's Re
adjustment Act. I have already em-
Washington, D. C.—No merchant!
ship missed convoy during the holiday!
season as thousands of American!
merchant seamen and officers volun
tarily returned to the sea to maintain!
the unbroken supply line of ships sail-1
ing to the fighting fronts, the War I
Shipping Administration announced.!
Men on shore leave responded to ur-|
gent appeals carried in the newspap
ers and broadcast over the radio andl
sacrificed opportunities to spend the|
holidays with their families. In pre
vious years the departure of somel
ships was delayed by the shortage of
experienced personnel during the holi-|
day season, WSA said.
"The response of these men to thel
appeal that they return to duty im
mediately was magnificent," said Cap
tain Macauley, Deputy War Shipping
Administrator.
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Congress
phasized the need to strengthen our
Social Security program.
"With respect to the reconversion
period, I am particularly concerned
over the fact that broad categories of
workers are not covered by present
legislation and that present standards
for unemployment compensation are
not adequate in many States. To pro
mote employment opportunities and
to assure the proper occupational ad
justment of returning veterans and
war workers, a strong, integrated sys
tem of public employment offices is e
basic necessity.
"We can best accomplish this ob
jective by the establishment, through
permanent legislation, of an effectiv
national employment service with ade
quate coverage throughout the nation
"For the reconversion period w
should provide assistance for trave
and retraining of war workers.
"We must also see to it that ow
administrative machinery for the ad
justment of 'abor disputes is read:
for the strains of the reconversioi
period. We must apply some of oui
wartime lessons in labor-managemen
cooperation in working out a soun
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for the adjustment of labor disputes.1' I
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