| Show washington snapshots at S by james preston A mass of legislative problems la Is building up lor for the regular ses slon alon of congress conven ht tig in less lesa than a mouth month and one of tile hie most troublesome is ia the federal federa farm li gram washington privately finds tint that the present hodge podge of soil erosion crop insurance export subsidy production control and so ou on and on Is not satisfactory the major reason government experts aay in secret la is that the present plan allow enough leeway for natural factors wars droughts dust storms hoods floods and the like dont a seem eem to pay much attention to laws about we time the program begins running smoothly one of these or home borne similar factor upsets things more and more washington Is beginning to wonder whether the real trouble now contro litIs too much control of too many details since it would be politically unwise to admit in an election year that the present program all it should be chances are against any recommendations to congress for an ending easing of contro lItIs but congress may take things in its own owa hands it came within inches of prolonging the special session and would wohld lae have it tho the president found several era million dollars to use for drought relief in the southwest among the other big problems aro are debt taxes national defense federal labor laws prices and annuities nui ties the administration has declared it will not ask congress to raise the present 4 15 billion debt limit there is therefore talk of economy but the president conceded that expenditures cannot bo be cut enough to balance the budget so with 3 billion deficit at least in sight tor for next year tear congress will be forced either to raise the debt limit or enact a whopping bax ax bill and legislators dont dont like to levy new taxes just before they go home bome for an all election elation campaign labor law changes will bo be sought vigorously too an experience in washington la Is being cited as an example of the kind of thing that should bo be stopped the story Is this in the many government build inga in the national capital a private organization 1 operates 27 restaurants and cafeterias threatened a strike recently this private organization signed a now new contract with the united cafeteria workers local union and the contract stipulated that it if cafe cafeteria terla and restaurant workers belong to the union their employer must deduct union dues before paying them but if they do not belong to the union then the employer must deduct an equal to union dues and turn it over to charity the effect of this Is to penalize penalise pen alise workers who nho do not belong to the union in fact it is almost a device to coerce them into joining the union this is ie an all object lesson that congress win will overlook prices lire are coming tn in for scrutiny before the monopoly news pa paper permon meu now call it amono monotony committee new Ioa lars will attempt to show bow that there la Is no justification for any price increases creases despite higher taxes higher wages and the war among commodities under study ure arc sov i oral cial which are imported into the united states and over which nobody in the united states has any price control but the new dealers rs figure the fact that these lj prices rices do rise will create a ii scare and help them got get price control laws enacted t ou ob the subject of prices some now dealers make clear their idea eliat ahat nobody can handle them except c themselves one of their primary abary arguments up to now has 4 been that prices rise and fall too much but now thurman arno arnold ld tells the monotony committee that the steel industry la Is building up a 4 monopoly because its prices are too rigid you just cant please some people |
