STRAUS WARNS A. F. OF L MEETING SLUMP MAY FOLLOW DEFENSE BOOM UNLESS HOUSING IS EXPANDED Warning delegates to the 60th an nual A. F. of L. Convention in New Orleans, La., that present prepara tions for defense may leave 5,000,000 American workers unprepared for peace when it comes, Nathan Straus, Administrator of the United States Housing Authority, recently urged that plans be made now for a publis housing program based on the possi bility of the need for 500,000 homes annually by the end of the defense emergency. Mr. Straus reminded the labor lead ers that when peace comes, men em ployed in highly skilled defense jobs must face the possibility of wide spread unemployment, unless a pro gram to forestall such a misfortune is put into effect now. “We must plan to face the possi bility that at least 6,000,000 men maj be thrown out of work directly or in directly by the reestablishment of i peacetime economy in this country unless we do something now to pre vent it,” Mr. Straus said. Pointing out that the lag in resi dential construction since 1929, obso lescence of existing homes, and popu lation growth, have combined to pro duce a need which, it is estimated, will reach a total of 13,000,000 new dwell ings by 1950, Mr. Straus urged ex pansion of the USHA program as the logical answer to labor’s peacetime readjustment problem. “I believe that the Nation-wide decentralized pro gram of the United States Housing Authority, calling into play all of the 500 local authorities as well as the Federal Government, utilizing 2,500 or more members of local hous ing authorities, many of whom are members of organized labor, drawing upon the best elements of community citizenship and community experi ence,, is the best and most substantial single piece of machinery yet devised toward this end.”—Public Housing, Nov. 23. Ladies Garment . Workers Progress In The South ATLANTA, Ga.—John S. 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