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Show Good Start Made !ln Major Job Of Reconversion Reconversion and all that lt entails between now nnd this time next year presents a black picture if one listens to the predictions of some government and labor leaders. lead-ers. The reconversion picture from the viewpoint of business and industry in-dustry is not so darkly shaded and a spirit of optimism prevails within with-in the ranks of Industry In most localities throughout the nation. Insofar as government is concerned con-cerned we ure, almost still unprepared unpre-pared for peace. Although the full-time full-time employment bill was Introduced Intro-duced last January with urgent recommendations from the late President Roosevelt that It be enacted Into law and later urging by President Truman . . . the bill still rests In a senate pigeonhole And. although there are many ramifications ram-ifications to the question of reconversion recon-version from war to a peace-time economy, the problem of unemploy-ment, unemploy-ment, of lower wages, If only for n short temporary period is predicted will slash the national Income from approximately 102 billions as of now to around 112 billions annually as of January 1, m. And It is unemployment, un-employment, the human side of reconversion, re-conversion, which will cane the most suffering. But looking at the picture as peslmlstically as one can It is a (l.r K,nfr"' R nntlo Income of 11- billions to around fifty Mllious which was the nation's Income during dur-ing the depression years In the rn!d-thirties. rn!d-thirties. It is a harsh paradox to witness a nation which has won the greatest military victory In history nnd accomplished the most proriM. ous production miracle In the an nals of man, throw up Its hands and predict an army of eight mil". m ,uhnemi)l0Jed b n"t .Spring with the government doing nnth, about lt 8 Cnalrman Krug of the War production pro-duction board In a statement shortly short-ly after the peace emphasized that the actual job of reconversion will be handled by private Industry with pretty much of a hands-off pollcj hy the government. The government's govern-ment's part he said, will be to bold down Inflation. Well according to the best Informed In-formed persons here In Washing, ton. that is not enough for govern, ment to do. And the record of J" ate industry even In the most lush production year In the nation-, lis tory has shown that private Indni try alone Is unequal to the task |