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Show the defense program would f rob-ably; rob-ably; begin shortly through approximately approx-imately 250.00 outlets, including ol 000 j.ostotfices. In view of the i5i.000.000.0c0 appropriation, all existing ex-isting federal taxes should Le doul.- lt d in.media:ely to avoid fin.: :cial . chaos. This war canno! be financed : icesfuily by our graudchijd, vn : au'i (ho sooner American rea'r.e tae p.-rv.ir; financial and eoiiGr..!c j aspects involved U the k-m! : I bill, tilo gre:t(r os.;:!j.l.ly tl.er-j is hat a financial collapse can be 'od. America's own inteio I -and iccuiity must not be subordinated subordi-nated to. those of anv other country. coun-try. The British-aid bill includes $1.-"50,000.000 $1.-"50,000.000 for proem ement of agricultural, agri-cultural, industrial and other commodities, com-modities, so that it is likely this country will become the granary of democracy. We have a corn carry-over four times normal, or 700,-000,00(1 700,-000,00(1 bushels. The wheat carryover carry-over is 400,000,000bushels, while the government has 11.000,000 bales of cotton under loan or wholly whol-ly owned. Thus, vhile the British blockade has cut off all our markets mar-kets except England, and the latter lat-ter has been using commodities principally from her own dominions, the "loan" of foodstuffs should now tlissipate some American surpluses and likely improve the price structure. ( CAPITAL I ' GLEAN IN6SA v. BY r 'l -Henry Dworshaksa 1 '., j YOUR CONGRESSMAN IilMlliM.Slll cent, or $.",00,000,000, was wasted; largely because of inefficiency in planning and the elimination of competitive bidding on contacts. This is a serious indictment of governmental efficiency at a time when citizens are being urged to make sacrifices in the interests of national defense. When the lease-lend bill was enacted, en-acted, the administration made assurances as-surances that the law-making body would have "control" of the purse-strings. purse-strings. This week the house, by a vote of 336 to 55, approved an appropriation of $7,000,000,000 for British aid. When debate began on the bill, Majority Leader McCor-mack McCor-mack stated that the administration administra-tion did not want a single change in the original bill and would accept ac-cept no amendments. There was an average of about 15 majority members on the house floor during the entire debate, and only six Democrats voted against the measure. meas-ure. Obviously, this is "remote-control" "remote-control" of the purse-strings and should indicate that exigencies of national defense have destroyed normal processes of government. The minority in the house made an effort to stipulate that no part of the defense articles procured from funds in this appropriation shall be disposed of to any foreign government unless available property prop-erty is pledged as collateral security. securi-ty. Several members pointed out that Britain hast vast financial interests in-terests outside of England, as illustrated il-lustrated by statistics showing British Brit-ish investments in Latin-America amounting to $4,394,000,000 On the basis of $4.02 per pound sterling. American taxpayers should not be forced to carry the burden cf financing fi-nancing Britain's war until its own nationals have made sacrifices. Secretary Morgenthau recently declared that offerings of stamps and securities to finance part of Strikes in national defense industries in-dustries and the creaiion by the president of an eleven-man mediation media-tion board dominated congressional interest this week. Dr. C. A. Dyk-stra, Dyk-stra, formerly president of the University Uni-versity of Wisconsin, and now serving as head of selective service will be chairman. He and two other members will represent the public, while management and labor la-bor will each have four members. The epidemic of strikes in defense de-fense industries has interfered so seriously with production that pro-posals pro-posals have been made for anti-strike anti-strike legislation. This was largely large-ly because administration leaders have sougth to minimize the seii-ous seii-ous effects of strikes, although the record showed otherwise. Defense officials have been urging the president to eliminate the necessity necessi-ty of strikes by providing a method for reaching settlements. While it has been pointed out that only a small fraction of defense worker's have been affected by strikes, recent re-cent shut-downs in many plants have withheld special items of vital vi-tal importance in the refenso program. pro-gram. During February and up .o the middle of March, 4CS.000 man-dajs were lost through strikes on aimy conrtacts alone. That was nearly twice the loss of timet in February, 1010. for all industries of the United Unit-ed States. The strike at the Allis-Chalmers Allis-Chalmers plant in Milwaukee, which began January 22, has seriously seri-ously retarded the destroyer nuiKl-ing nuiKl-ing program. Because of the delay in the delivery of generators, this strike also interfered with the operation op-eration of a huge powder plant in Virginia, which had been rushed lo completion three months ahead of schedule. It is unfortunate that jm isdic-tional isdic-tional disputes between labor organizations or-ganizations and file collectica of fees to join unions havo retarded national defense production. It L-im, L-im, likely that compulsory strike k-irlal'ion will be nuwl'A by congress, con-gress, al hough Mie:-e is wMcproa.l sentiment that management ar.d labor must coopetfte wi'h the Ev-ernnient Ev-ernnient in fillin? defense ron-v;,,ts ron-v;,,ts on the bisis that pers.nal profit and aggrandizeme.it must be subordinated to the natirn, I interest. inter-est. Congressman Engel cf Michigan has just completed a personal inspection in-spection of thirteen army camp:-where camp:-where construction has been m progress. Mr. Kngel. a menb-r of the house appropriations coram. t tee," has been responsible for Severn': Sev-ern': drastic economies in the opet-otion opet-otion of the defense program and 1-oon will disclose the results of his survey. Tie will likely point o-.t that: of the ?$0o 000.0ml ren.ir.red to build army camps, about 40 per |
