Show washington snapshots by james preston A new come on for farmers and small has quietly peen been irv prepared pared by s some onto of new gew deal economists it Is another ylo a to boost the nation into ido prosperity toy by going aurthur into debt only time can tell whether r those these will succeed in their v ef forta tile the interesting fact is that after eight years of trying their ideas they still wont be downed despite the fact the nations nation ia dot debt Is faill growing and th that atmore more than nine million people arlo arc unemployed tile the now proposal la Is largely a modification of 0 the spend lend idea rejected by congress a year ago this time however instead of be ing presented to congress as one plan lan it la Is to be broken up into sections and submitted at it wont h look gobig so big then the como come ou on balt bait to farmers and small r af be that the present recession cOss loil la Is serious and that it will get worse unless the government goes gocs lit hi for pump it will be contended that the farmer and businessman will be n ble able to sell more of their goods if the government puts money into the hands hand of the unemployed but several fallacies lit hi that argument arc pointed put out by other more moderate now new deal economists first they say without hesitancy that the th current recession will be over by slay anil and that 1940 as a whole will be a better year than 1039 1939 thus they say pump even if it did good would be unnecessary and a number of these washington ington economists point ou out that when money la Is taken by the gov orli orpiment ment for ump pump p priming it comes come of necessity out but odthe of the incomes of those who have bavo it IL itis it la a 11 well known fact they say that there arent enough wealthy people to bear the burden and the load therefore must bo be put upon tile the financial middle class lini nely farmers fan ners small businessmen and white collar workers the extremists argue of course that hat borrowing burrowing bad because it IL sitti simply vir constitutes a mortgage on the future which will bt ba paid off ff when times get better batter but the others other li retort with the important fact that today taxes amount to 21 cents out of each dollar of income against about 12 cents in the anil and they add lu in the everybody was making money so 0 they were I 1 in it a much better position to yay pay the taxes speaking of jobs and better business there Is a case now pending lit in the courts which illustrates illustrato an unwholesome attitude that exists lit in somo some WashIng washington tot quarters tho the case involves a lumber company which was accused by the national labor relations board of some unfair labor practices it was ordered by the board to pay sonic some lif back wages to former employees who allegedly had fwu discriminated against and discharged because of union activities the company took the ease case into court insisting that it would nave have to sell everything it owned and then go out of business entirely if it paid this such a move of course would deprive deprie e men n now ow working of theli thel jobs job the court over the boards protest has haa taken a more reasonable attitude lad and designated a third person to determine how much the coin company vany could pay without going out it of business 11 lie e labor bo blaid ard has ba s just been disclosed as another washington agency which pulls with its left hand bana and pushes with its right so called company dominated labor unions have been anat hemn I 1 to the labor board and to tile the labor department they have even issued a list of characteristics of a company dominated union in hearings before the tha smith committee it was that there is a union of labor board employees and the infer interesting esting fact Is thatis that it does docs a lot of things which are described as characteristics of a company doni dominated ina fed union for example its duos dum are 25 centea a the board and la kofl 1 0 T ea rhyle ni have taken the position in tile the past that any union which collects such small dues cannot really be free from employer domination other things which the board has proscribed but which the boards union do include those these they have used labor board s stationery t ft ti onery they post notices on oil the labor board bulletin edard oard they hold meetings on labor board property they disca discuss and conduct union business on ion labor board time board officials have spoken to board employees employ ces at board union meetings thus things which the board condemns condern wi lit in other unions it coh condones lit in its own the employer can call do no wrong |