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Show ed in haste. The amendment provides, pro-vides, for example, that a man re-hired may not be discharged for a year without cause meaning mean-ing efficiency or something similar. simi-lar. Such a provision might mean bankruptcy for many businesses after an emergency ended. Many other questions have not been answered, such as the effect of the re-hiring provision on social security taxes, private pension plans, group Insurance, union seniority sen-iority contracts, and so on. It's just another illustration of some layman thinking something is a good idea and of Congress pushing it along without any knowledge of the basic problems involved. Any National Guard resolution, res-olution, business experts say, would play havoc at the end of an emergency. The Labor Board has just set a new record! It is now deciding tie elections in favor of the group it supports. In a New York City plant an election was heTd to determine whether the employees wanted an AFL union to repreT collective bargaining n"'s found the election , tie of 15 to 15 FOR-tj, So the union was rK, the collective bargain , " 6 That's something l matics! This Week'Tc high official in WashlnZ-declared WashlnZ-declared publicly that the, J government should vertising; that too much spent for advertising hv '' ' turers, wholesalers a and that the cost ol , f Using is unfairly pa,, consumer. 11 A brand new advertiser v, ever, has now appeared i, paper match cover field p, matches are now belnt ed with this measagr 'v1 Your Money. Beware of Co, feiters. Sound Your Coins? ine Your Billsthe U s Service, Treasury Depart And the cost is passed the taxpayer! napAhcts JameS Preston o Congress is proving the truth of the old maxim that those who marry in haste repent at leisure. For it is in the process of divorcing divorc-ing itself from some of Its previous pre-vious important actions. The trouble is, of course, that the previous actions were ill-considered, ill-considered, and in some instances apparently not considered at all. The reason is that congress is moving so swiftly on national defense de-fense bills. Unless constituents demand that their legislators move a little more slowly and study things more carefully, then Washington Wash-ington may begin to look like another an-other Reno or Las Vegas. For example, Senate and House passed a navy expansion bill. There were some minor differences differ-ences between the two branches of congress and the bill was sent to "conference" for compromise. The conferees took their agreement agree-ment back to Senate and House, and both branches accepted it. Three weeks later It was discovered discover-ed that the conferees' agreement included a provision permitting the Secretary of the Navy with the President's approval to take over private property, to "commandeer." "com-mandeer." In a Socialistic or Communistic Communis-tic nation that would be all right, but when the conferees on this bill found out what they had done they took immediate steps to repeal re-peal that commandeering proviso. pro-viso. So another bill is on the way through Congress taking that power away from the government. Another sample of ill-considered action is contained in the conscription con-scription and National Guard bills. These measures were subjected to lengthy hearings before Senate and House committees. But not once during the hearings was the idea suggested of making It mandatory man-datory for employers to re-hire employees who go into active military mili-tary service. After the hearings were over and while the bill was under consideration con-sideration in secret session by the Senate Military Affairs committee, com-mittee, someone offered a rider amendment to make it an unfair practice for an employer to refuse to re-hire. . That provision passed the Senate Sen-ate without any discussion whatsoever. what-soever. But it is now becoming apparent ap-parent to legislators that they act- |