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From the beginning, the AFL group
pointed out, the NWLB has limited its
sphere of regulation to "wage rates"
and has not used gross earnings or
"take-home pay" as its guide. In their
latest report, however, the public
members seized upon a new measur
ing rod, "adjusted straight-time hour
ly earnings." This amounts to a sta
tistical about-face since the "adjust
ments" that are included make the
new measure a kind of "take-home
pay figure."
Exposing the injustice of this meth
od, the AFL asserted that if 10 men
in a plant received a 10 cents an hour
increase, an average process is used
to show that 20 men received a 5 cents
hourly increase.
"In this manner," the AFL state
ment declared, "the public members
have concocted a 36.7 per cent in
crease in adjusted straight time hour
ly earnings for all wage earners sub
ject to the War Labor Board's juris
diction.
"The workers of America are dis
illusioned by this change in wage con
trol technique. But they have not
been hypnotized into believing that an
increase for some workers is an in
crease in the wages of all workers
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NWLB Finding In Favor of Keeping Wage Formula
Assailed by AFL
Washington, D. C.—Sharply reject
ing the findings of the public mem
bers of the National War Labor Board
against any change in the wage freeze,
the AFL members of the board called
upon President Roosevelt to prevent
"e conomic disaster" by promptly and
realistically modifying the Little Steel
formula.
Since the President incorporated
the Little Steel formula into an exec
utive order and thus made it part of
the nation's stabilization program, the
AFL group contended that it is up to
the President to make the final de
cision on whether the formula should
now be changed.
Arguments of the public members
against modification of the formula
were blasted to smithereens in the
AFL dissent.
The statement charged that the
public members, after a year's delay
have resorted to the tricky expedient
of changing the "measuring rod" of
wages in order to justify their po
sition.
Final Word on Wage Freeze
Now Up to FDR, AFL Insists!
Only statisticians can be confused by
the magic of their averaging tech
nique."
Turning to the postwar signifi
cance of frozen wage rates, the AFL
charged the public members of the
WLB with seeking greater govern
ment control over collective bargain
ing, which would be "not only objec
tionable but an indication of a dan
ger trend of thinking."
'Submission to government regula
tion of wages and interference with
the rights of American workers dur
ing a war fought to defend freedom
has been necessary. But even a sug
gestion that free collective bargain
ing shall be supplanted in large
measure by government regulation
during the undefined reconversion pe
riod is a timely warning that the
organized workers of America can
ill afford to overlook.
"The eventual outcome of this kind
of thinking is government-dominated
and controlled unionism. We cannot
subscribe to this 'solution' of the prob
lem, which will be inescapable if the
rigid control of wages represented by
the Little Steel formula is to be con
tinued."
The dissenting report was signed
New York City.—-Beardsley Ruml,
chairman of the Federal Reserve
Board, predicted that there would be
a 40 per cent rise in the standard of
living in this country after the war
and declared that to provide such a
standard President Roosevelt's goal
of 60,000,000 productive jobs could and
must be attained.
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Higher Post-War Living Standards
Depend on Jobs For All, Says Rumll
Mr. Ruml said enduring Dational
prosperity in the post-war world
would depend on two things—a high
level of employment and a higher ca
pacity on the part of the average
American to enjoy the more abund
ant life that full-time employment
Federal Reserve Board Chairman Predicts A 40 Per Cent|
Rise in the Standard of Living After the War
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Speaking at a meeting of the Newl
York Academy of Public Education!
at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, he as-|
serted that the nation's educators hadl
a vital part to play in building and|
maintaining post-war national pros
perity. There cannot be a higher
standard of living, he emphasized, un
less educators teach Americans the|
great lesson of consumption.
"A higher standard of living and|
full employment go hand in hand
they are corollaries of each other," hel
said. "We cannot have 55 or 60 mil-1
lion jobs unless we have a higher I
standard of living that will consume!
the product of so many jobs. Similar-1
ly, if we have the increased consum-l
ing power, there will be a larger de-|
mand for goods and services and con
sequently more jobs to produce those
very things that our people want.
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Mr. Ruml said it was "reasonable"!
to expect that American private bus
iness would provide 54 to 56 million I
jobs after the war. He estimated thatl
positions in Government and military!
services would add enough jobs to I
that total to attain the national goal|
of 60,000,000.
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by AFL Secretary-Treasurer George
Meany, Vice President Matthew Woll,l
Robert J. Watt and James A. Brown-1
low.
They emphasized at the outset thatl
the record of the President's original
7-point anti-inflation program is a I
"sorry one" on every point save wage|
regulation, adding:
"The contrast between the results I
attained by the War Labor Board and I
those produced by the other agencies
involved in the program is startling.
Indeed, the control of wages has beenl
so effective that the deficiencies of the
entire program have been hidden from|
public view.
"Nevertheless, by some strange I
quirk of reasoning, whenever the pro-1
gram is lagging more than usual, thel
pressure is placed upon the one area I
of control that has succeeded. As a I
consequence, the thumbscrews have I
been steadily tightened upon workers!
until now they have been asked to I
forego even certain benefits which arc|
conducive to healthful living.
"The analysis of wage control pre-|
sented in the statement of the public!
members represents a desperate ef-l
fort to save the entire program oil
fighting inflation at a cost to be
borne only by the wage earners and
for the enrichment of other groups in
the economy."
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