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Show Action Sought on Refugee Iueasui'3( Senators to Report on Fro! e Of Displaced Persons. NEW YORK. Renewed efferts to secure passage of the Stratton bill, which authorizes temporary emergency emer-gency legislation permitting d:s-placed d:s-placed persons to enter America, are expected when the 80th congress reconvenes in January. The special senate commit lee which toured Europe during Die congressional recess to investigate President Truman's proposal to ad mit displaced perynrs is seller'1!;' to file its report by J.'MM-nrv in T - senators inspected Grr:;i' ition camps where he c; f s ' : : -sons have been living ii re '' ended. i Welfare and rc!: v-rs tions are canv;i -slny, the i study the practical api lie; I mi the proposed mi?r;ilinn, tv:'"i i.rts ;r.-( being made to find out where r.eti::i! labor shortages exist in America, and to determine where these people, peo-ple, including many skilled workers, could fit into industry and agriculture. agricul-ture. An initial study by the Citizens CommitUT' on Displaced Persons, an organization sponsored by 102 religious re-ligious and welfare societies with the purpose of aiding displaced per- sons, indicates that there is a shortage short-age in agriculture of the skilled type of handyman on the farm, the organization or-ganization reports. Representatives of farm organizations, organiza-tions, industrial leaders and others have told the committee that "a practical absorption of the able-bodied, able-bodied, politically stable displaced person has a genuine place in' our economy." The Catholic Rural Life conference, confer-ence, headed by Monsigneur Luigi G. Ligutti of Des Moines, Iowa, is assembling information relative to placing the displaced persons in this country if the Stratton bill is passed. Figures compiled by UNRRA, the committee reports, show that the displaced persons are principally Baits, from Estonia, Latvia and Poland. Po-land. The majority, the report adds, are Catholics, with a small percentage percent-age of Jews. The 850,000 displaced persons remaining re-maining in Europe have a wide variety of skills in agricultural and allied fields, according to the committee. |
