C. of C. Asks Congress
To Remove Federal
Control of Business
Measures 'Act as Brake
On Our Industrial
Machines/ Is Claim
By the Associated Press.
The United States Chamber of
Commerce urged yesterday that
Congress, as a defense measure, re
move Government controls “which
act as a brake on our industrial
machines.”
James S. Kemper, chamber presi
dent, in a public statement to 800,
000 businessmen members, said that
Congress should:
“1. Take immediate steps to eli
minate unnecessary public expendi
tures.
“2. Eliminate present handicaps
to the production of essential war
materials on an economical basis.
“3. Remove obstacles which tend
to block industrial initiative and
retard productive effort.”
Can Speed Program.
“Business is ready and willing to
do its part in meeting any national
problem,” Mr. Kemper said. “Con
gress and the Government's ad
ministrative agencies can facilitate
the progress of the preparedness
program. The time to do it is now.”
There is need, the chamber said,
for encouragement for new capital
investment in defense plants, a
comprehensive, long-term revision
of the tax structure, modification
of labor legislation “which now
prevents cordial employer-employe
relations,” vigilance against “sub
versive elements which would un
dermine our democratic institu
tions,” assurances that the “gigan
tic re-armament program shall be
carried on competently and within
the dimensions of our free enter
prise system," and that labor, agri
culture and business unite against
•‘all dictatorial trends.”
Cites Legislation Aids.
Without making any direct ref
erence to the chamber s contentions,
L. Metcalfe Walling, administrator
of the Walsh-Healey Public Con
tracts Act, said in a radio talk last
night that the public should not be
misled by persons "seeking to use
the cloak of national defense as a
guise to cover their real intent of
scrapping all social legislation.”
Existing labor legislation, he said,
was doing much “to preserve em
ploye morale, cut down fatigue and
thus increase efficiency of produc
tion.”
C. 1.0. Expects Defense
To Aid 2,500,000 Jobless
The Congress of Industrial Or
ganizations estimated yesterday that
2,500,000 unemployed would find Jobs
In the next 12 months as a result
of the rearmament program.
Actual defense expenditures in
this period, the organization’s Eco
nomic Outlook said, are expected to
be $6,400,000,000. Estimating the
number of unemployed at 10,748,000,
it said an annual arms expenditure
Of 15,000,000.000 to 20,000,000,000
would be required to employ all of
them.
"It seems clear,w the Outlook con
tinued, “that for some time to come
the reservoir of unemployed and
other available workers, with a
modest amount of additional train
ing, will be more than sufficient to
meet national defense needs fully.”
“The enactment of an excess
profits tax at this time would sub
stantially improve the tax structure
of the country and would be in line
with labor’s program. The bad
effects of the tax bill Just enacted
have already become clear with the
rise in prices of goods going to con
sumers, such as gasoline and
tobacco.”
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Meet After 30 Years
COLUMBUS, Ga„ July 20 <&>.—
Bolomon Rossman of Youngstown,
Ohio, en route to Miami, Pla.,
paused in a hotel lobby here yes
terday to telegraph a sister-in-law
at Birmingham, Ala., inquiring the
whereabouts of his brother, A. Ross
man, publisher of the Southern
Jewish Times, whom he had not
seen for SO years.
Turning ibout, he met his brother
(ace to face.
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