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Show UNSOLVED MYSTERY IN WASHINGTON Washington insiders say the administration ad-ministration itself is the motivating motivat-ing factor behind the stubborn attempt at-tempt to force some type of labor conscription legislation through congress. Just why it is plugging so hard for such a controversial program, particularly in an election year, is one of the unsolved mysteries. Despite the way high Army and Navy chieftains have been forced to lend lip-service to the demand, there is excellent reason to believe they are not any too anxious to get it. At a recent conference with businessmen and industrialists, General Marshall and Admral King sat silent through the discussion dis-cussion of enforced labor and confined con-fined their own remarks to the needs of the armed forces. |