Show ar ope acia 11 w of goat forecast washington you can be 1 sure that plans already are under way for a determined effort in the next session of congress to return to the states and to the people a large share of the power now centered in washington while other issues also are involved the civil ri rights cont controversy ro climaxed by sending fed eral troops to little rock has focused nationwide attention on the question of federal vs va states rights this has been the subject of stormy controversy even antedating the birth of the republic much of the discussion in congress will center around court decisions holding that the federal government has the excle ive authority to deal with a considerable amount of litigation involving labor controversies and subversion for example state laws against communistic activity were declared invalid by the supreme court on the ground that the federal government had bad preempted this field this same situation prevails with respect to many labor abuses the stati statis s have to sit idly by and anit for someone in washington to decide whether to take action in labor controversies ies which many regard as purely local in character legislation is pending in congress to correct this anomalous situation and it will be pushed vigorously by its advocates the measures have been introduced by oy rep smith D va and by senators mcclellan D ark byrd ayrd D va thurmond thurmon DS C and others they would prohibit the courts from ruling that the federal government has exclusive jurisdiction of such cases unless tills this had been specified by congress in enacting the legislation at issue thus under those circumstances the states would be free to 0 o handle such lucli problems along with the federal government and not have legal authority cen cred in washington it would be a long step toward bringing government back home where the people generi generally ally speaking are in a better atter position to exercise vigilance and protect their cherished rights tile the smith bill made some borne progress I 1 in n the recent session of congress it moved from a subcommittee to the house judiciary committee where it will receive renewed consideration when congress reconvenes jan 7 no recommendations either for or against with respect to legislation were made by tile the subcommittee tills procedure was wag followed in order to avoid delay in moving it to iho lull full committee tills this problem of 0 federal preemption did not become serious barlous until recently until then federal legislation was limited largely to matters which were bete primarily of national concern and for fer which uniform national regulation gul gu lation ailon was required for the past quarter ot of n century however lo wever Con congress gresl list has enacted legislation on many subjects formerly governed by the states the ilie need to end federal preemption Js Is perhaps more alpar ent lit in the field of labor relations than in most others employment Is essentially a local relationship tion ship between local parties living and working under local conditions with other local peo ale le till fill subject in hi most respects rid io locel law their employment bo however wever Is becoming increasingly regulated from washington in tile area of labor relations this federal control Is fat becoming complete to lo the exclusion of 0 thi the states |