Show d john L Lewis Leading anti wage W age C ceiling ailin ight fight man who came back Is responsible for battle against little steel eSteel formula of increases by BAUKHAGE news analyst and service union trust lV washington ashington 1 I C there Is a candidate in washington for the title of the man who came back lie ile has come back before so it Is probably no great thrill for him but it is a terrific pain in the neck for a number of people who ho hoped th this Is tall tal dark ghost had been laid hway away for tho the duration it not for longer I 1 am speaking spooning oking of john lewis stripped of his robes as head of the CIO which he hewed out of the rock of AF of L opposition gut but if his he head ad is 11 bloody it is bowed in n no humility whatever lewis levis may rot be beall all tile the way w y back bach but it seems very much as if green and murray are going through some preliminary shuffles that may be a dance to piper lewis tuno tune i lewis loudly sounded tile the keynote for what lie he hopes to bethe bo the death march for or the little steel st cel formula for which hell held wage raises down to a 15 per cent maximum when murray and green heard of lewis press corf con ference on the 06 days day he hc sounded his threat they hurried to the white house holise ahei eche the president who ight seeing just anybody I 1 permitted the visit and let the CIO AF of af L talk to reporters on the white Whito house steps but they had nothing to say which could brown the lewis roar I 1 talked with a man who has fought labors lab cause for many a year without affiliation with any group he said to me i there are only two th things that will keep from blowing the who whole ae price control control system into tha hb heavens either E ther murray grid and green can turn their backson backs lon Lewi put aside e their fears that ho hr will wip win the plaudits pl audits of labor awa away from them by being the sole champion of wage raises andray and say boldly to abir their tollow lowera cra 41 well AWell do ad what td best nr for and everybody i 1 I inflation will be worse in ih the theand end than the squeeze you leel you ate are getting now taw if they dont lewis will have hanoh his I 1 9 I 1 1 way j i 4 the alternative he wint on is to ime have the he president call in both the farm and the labor leaders and s say ay I 1 all right how much of an increase dodou want twenty pet cent thirty but the then prices will wil so go up by just that much you and everybody else vill to iti that much worse off 11 oi 01 course there i 14 tive five t a cast st iron 4 ceilings afi on prices but tha metal to withstand stand taeup word ward pressure ore has not bon found with this situation fattore himi al mosta anyone would rz rather bt right or left of center than president es ident 11 I 1 1 I 1 k efm different problem recently to add ah the troubles of the a labor leaders themselves as aswell well as as tho the government there thare was evi dence ot of ti a different t type at problem in s scattered c itt erid hot spots bots p athe in the labor world undisciplined a ed gro group v asih which ono one man described as made up of f me men who yin eyen take deders virg from stalin ll 11 v some soine workers iti in a fi zinc smelter in mo W va gave giad notice that they theyo going to work saturday or sunday without overtime pay this in spite of the fact that they worked only 36 hours a yeek week the orders are plear clear that double time is only paid for or a a seventh day of consecutive wai wack but bi these men said orders pr no orders they th ay erent going to work saturdays or sundays without that overtime zinc is one of the necks the War Production board wai waa francc irant lc these are only pin pricks and not typical but th they cridge cause 6 a rs ansis I 1 e very every time they occur chandus aa industries itlen producing essien essential tInI materials 1 i ti quick comeback r to mcnutt manu tt edict d ic t there has seldom been a quicker quIck ir comeback in a wa washington 1 bout than the smart jab to the chin that thai followed paul mcnulta delivered atif at the boys in noh nofi eisen essential 1 1 I 1 industry the echoes of the work or flight ukase of the manpower commission were still reverberating rever berating up nod down the corridors of odthe the long ilist of industries dus tries from boot blacking to win dow the house military committee arose with its no no a thousand times nal no I 1 representative kilday of texas obtained a promise from Cli chairman airman M may ay of the military affairs committee for immediate hearings on his amendment to the selective service act and the block mcnutt move was soon heavily under way As ad you know representative kil dagg bill I 1 is aimed to ency the basic cause of deferment while move enove was to establish participation in the war e effort in told held factory or the armed forces as the principle governing the order of induction McNut ts order set the boys in the nonessential non essential businesses hamMer hammering hammeran tn at the doors of the united states employment offices all over the coun country try and consternation and don confusion reigned then up spoke mr kilda kilday k ilie alie attitude of those favoring the measure to draft the single men first everywhere ery where before the married men arid and the others with dependents go is this they say they do not want them the selective service act made a weapon to force men into essential jobs they claim the act was never so ip intended tended legislation they say must be pass passed adul after t er careful study which will I 1 lay down 4 a manpower program military service is an honor abw as well ell as a duty it must not be used as a threat kil days views I 1 talked with representative kilday before the hearings began lie ile was optimistic over quick corn com cittee acceptance of his bill though he paid he want to hurry the hearings and he realized all sorts of opposition might develop he pointed out that his measure would not niter alter the jhb present deferments that it mean as some seemed to think that single men now deferred under the ii present resent deferment rules arulas will be yanked out of their jobs and aind thrown into the army opponents say however bo wever in ansome some cases bases this willbe will be the actual effect affett 4 whatever the effects on agriculture icid and industry may be if the bill tl passes it will sink the present manpower commission program without a 0 trace and with all hands on board there Is s plenty of 61 public ap appeal peal in the kilday measure the argument that it is more important to keep the family together than to flu fill quotas for industry filhe or the arm army and the navy the argument that there is no authority in the selective service act to do what the manpower commission ord order e r is a aimed I 1 m ed to achieve namely jo 4 p state what job a man is to hold and that side of af the tha argument denho ha particular appeal in a copy COPT gross gress exceedingly jealous af of its pral prerogatives roga tives sworn swarn to pre prevent usurpation of its powers b by the administrative bran branch bh 11 k s A prediction last week I 1 reported tho the prediction by a keen observer of this whole problem to tho the effect th that atone one more desperate measure would be at tempted by y the M manpower manpower commission before it would be forced to step aside for some other a agency gancy mcnutt acted and within 24 hours of that prediction the military affairs c committee announced hea hearings on the kilday bill looks very much like a bird of ill omen echoing the second part of the dire prediction the end of the manpower commission as an agency with any power of initiative left to many high hig harmy army officials the thedois rois is grim satisfaction in what is happening long ago it t was wag intimated that sooner or later the military would have to take over the whip hand and settle the manpower question jn in its own way some military man men would be quite quilie happy to have the I kilday tilday measure ms pass t sweep eVery everyone oxie draft able e into the armed forces and then do Us its own ie re a allocation llo cation scree screening out the men necessary to industry and agriculture and furlough them back as mill mili tary needs first and the Indu s second demanded one can imagine however how union labor would like to see kha khaki ki and navy blue manning the stamping machines and the lathes beside the workingmen in clovies civvies labors objection to the bill bil was expected from the first and sa so e have a four way clash leg legislators marl manpower gwei commission military labor anc more a labor d raft draft looms at as the headlines say |