MAY 14. 1942
The Week In
Washington
A Resume of Governmental Happenings
in the National Capital
Washington. May 13.?The nev
Reoseveltiah economic policy, a
outlined in the President's speeche
to ccngrcss and to the people las
month, is meeting strong oppositioi
from certain groups in congress. A
tr.e President said, only two parts o
his seven-point program require leg
islatien. but all seven points are s
closely related that ineffective ac
tion on those two would endange
the whole plan.
The two points which are causini
such widespread debate are th
President's demand for prcventini
farm prices from going higher that
the parity figure and his request fo
taxes heavy enough to drain of
war-inflated incomes.
The strong farm bloc in congress
which succeeded last year in pre
venting ceilings on farm prices be
low 110 per cent of parity (a prie
which would give the farmer, it
terms of purchasing power of non
farm commodities, an income of 1
per com aoove tnc average for th
base period of 1909-1914) has no in
tention of approving the parity ceil
ing now, and the farm bloc ha
enough influence in congress to con
trol the situation.
Senators and congressmen fron
the farm areas argue that the farm
er would be doing more than hi
share of the sacrificing if this movi
went through, particularly when ni
definite action to freeze wages o
labor has been taken. The farmer
are very conscious of the high wage:
being paid to labor and their rep
resentatives do not intend to let thi
farmers take the brunt of the wai
burden.
If the President had made a defi
nite proposal to freeze labor's wage:
the farm group would be mori
amenable, but, believing that th<
President already has shown parti
ality to labor, they are not taking
too much stock in the statement ir
his speech in which he said, "If yoi
work for wages you will have t<
forego higher wages for your par
ticular job for the duration of th<
war."
Knowing that labor groups in con
gress and in the administration an
strongly opposing any legislatior
which would put a coiling on wages
tlie farm group doesn't intend to b<
the first to give in.
The conservative element in eon
gress, which might ordinarily favo:
both curbs on wages and on farn
prices, is not treating either tot
warmly because it is disturbed ovei
the President's failure to mentior
economies within the non-war acti
vities of the government itself. Feel
ing that many economies could b<
made which would not hurt the wai
program, this group is relating ih
demands for such economies to leg
isiation tor wage control, profit control
and taxation.
There is a growing conviction ir
congress that the President's proposals
will face heavy oppositior
until he takes some definite step tc
| force labor to share in the sacrifice:
which he is asking of other groups
It is pointed out that the great pari
of the big increase in national income
this year is due to the highci
wages paid to labor. It is estimat
ed that at least $10,000,000,000 of the
extra war spending now going or
comes from labor's fatter pay envelopes.
Farm income has increased
but not in proportion to that of labor.
The failure of labor to take seriously
the President's suggestion foi
curbing higher wages was made
clear when, a week after the President's
talk, Philip Murray, president
of the CIO, at a meeting of the
steel workers organizing committee,
emphasized his continued loyalty
to the President and in the same
breath said that he would see a new
$1 a day pay increase for 180,00C
workers in four steel companies.
"The position of labor in America,"
said Mr. Murray, "is one ol
unalterable opposition to any system
of wage-freezing. This is true
of both the American Federation ol
Labor and the Congress of Industrial
Organization."
What congress will do about this
many-sided problem in an election
year is difficult to determine?but
present indications are that it will
take very little action of any kind
which it can possibly avoid.
The subject of supplying oil tc
eastern states has been a majoi
topic of discussion here. There is
little doubt that there may be a real
fuel problem, for both industry anc
homes using oil in the east nex
winter and Secretary of Interim
Ickes has urged industries, apartment
houses, hotels, etc., usinj
heavy fuel oils to turn to coal.
Much interest has been shown ir
Senator Shipstad's proposal for ar
expenditure of $20,000,000 for build
ing wooden barges to ship oil up th<
Mississippi rind down the Ohio rivei
to Pittsburgh and then pipe it t<
coastline cities, but even if this wen'
through it would be many month;
before the east could be adequate
. ly supplied by this plan.
Shipping at British home ports ir
normal years runs between sixtj
and seventy million tons.
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Keeping Mediterranean Lifeline Open
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i This photo was made somewhere In the Mcditcrrauean sea when
e units of the Italian fleet engaged a British convoy escort on their way
, from Alexandria to the besieged island of Malta. It shows a British
light cruiser throwing out a smoke screen to shield the convoy as
1 another British cruiser elevates her forward o.25 guns ready to shell
the Italian fleet.
Good Fish in7 in Watertown
Uncle Sam is making an urgent plea for all kinds of scrap In lie
used In eur war cflort. As tlie salvage program gets under way, these
s three pals of Waterloo it, Mass.. have formed a junk-collecting club
- and find that the Charles River has a bottom covered with stun needed
P to nut a dent in the Axis. The boys fished u ev t thing except lish.
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I Britain's Parallel to Our Squalus
This British submarine, H.M.S. Thunderbolt, is shown returning
to her base after a successful foray against Axis shipping in the Mediterranean.
The Thunderbolt was formerly the Thetis, which sank duri
ing her trials at about the same time the U. S. submarine Squalus met
disaster in a test dive. Like the Squalus the Thefts was salvaged, and
i ?k?ui u&e we aquaios it nas been taking- a heavy toil of the enemies
( of democracy.
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The Swedish liner Drottningholm, which has been chartered by the
United States for use in exchange of American and Axis diplomats, has
arrived at Jersey City from Goteborg, Sweden. The vessel will take
aboard German and Italian diplomats to Lisbon for swap for American
diplomats. A group of children who made the voyage from Sweden are
qiciurea anoara tne vessel.
| Young MacArthur Gets Aussie Haircut
While his Chinese "Amah" keeps careful watch, Arthur MacArthur,
four-year-old son of Gen. Douglas MacArthur, is shorn of his locks in a
Melbourne barber shop. This is his first Aussie haircnt. Mrs. Macf
Arthur, fondly watching the operation, is shown at the right. (
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! FIFTY-FIVE TO GRADUATE
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Sumter Elk, May 12.?Fifty-live mmmmmmmmm
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L< cs-McKae College on June 1. D.J EAC.
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night, May 30. in the college Nauditorium;
the baccalaureate ser- j
mon by Rev. Charles E. Raynall, D.
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church of Statesville, which will be i .
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cnurcn on Sunday morning. May 31. f
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church on Sunday evening, May 31. 8 '
and the final commencement exer- ;
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auditorium on the morning cf June "
1. at 10 o'clock. Diplomas will be i K1
presented and various medals and
awards made to outstanding mem- X
bers of the student body.
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50 per cent of the amounts handled
in the same period in 1941 because
of difficulties of getting this
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