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Show the national labor policy, and thej development of an agricultural program, by farm leaders, "which will assure that farming will be restored as a free, self-supporting, profitable division of our economic system." Preserving the adequate flow of private capital, Mr. Mosher said, requires a major revision of our tax laws and general governmental governmen-tal policies which will promote confidence among Investors. RIGIIT TO JOB INDORSED BY MANUFACTURERS Declaring that the nation's manufacturers man-ufacturers believe "unequivocally" in the right to a job, Ira Mosher, president of the National Assn. of Manufacturers, has presented to the Senate Banking and Currency Curren-cy committee a program of "full employment plus" as ann alternative alter-native to the proposed Murray Full Employment bill. Speaking for NAM'S 14,000 members, who employ four out of five of all the manufacturing wage-earners of the U. S., Mr. Mosher endorsed the objective of the committee hearings but questioned ques-tioned the practical operation of the proposed national production and employment budget. Depression Causes The manufacturer decleared that there are only three economic developments de-velopments which, singly or in combination, have been responsible for depressions in America: 1. Mismanagement of the money and credit system in ways which convert prosperity into an inflationary infla-tionary boom. 2. Granting or perpetuating per-petuating special privileges which prevent the flow of goods and services. ser-vices. 3. Preventing an adequate flow of capital into job-making activity. "In the money and credit field," j Mr. Mosher contended, "there is no man or group of men alive today who can sit down and spell out the exact method by which tnai. money anu ucmu divh must be managed." Asks Committee of Experts He recommended that Congress create a special committee of experts, ex-perts, "commissioned to report specifically on what legislative changes are needed and what policies pol-icies must be followed by the banking authorities"; that Congress Con-gress adopt "as a national policy the elimination of all special favors fa-vors and special privileges"; more vigorous enforcement of the antitrust anti-trust laws; a progressive but gradual grad-ual reduction in tariffs; international interna-tional agreements to eliminate cartels, a general overhauling of |