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Show WASM':!3fON '' ' .... :' Hu---rLs l.':..-.-.:.3j& ij FROM OUR CONGRESSMAN I W. K. GRANGER Kariiima Labor Stabilization 1 The Maritime Commission announced labor and management manage-ment representatives off the maritime industry ;have ac-i ac-i pied a taoi!ization program c ihng lor a moratorium on ... artime strikes and lockouts, a . I. ecial board to settle disputes, a .d a uniform system of -war oiiu-c3 and insurance. The aritime ind us try thus became tne first to be permanently sta-bilized sta-bilized for the prosecution of the war, the - Commission said. Hie conferees petitioned the President to name a three-man Oatd, i.-icluding one representative represen-tative of the Labor Department and one ifro.n the " Maritime Commission All rights guaranteed, guar-anteed, to labor and industry under collective -bargaining will l.-e retai'.ied, and all agreements fi..d obligations in existence wiU !be in no wav violated, the nrn- gram states, Navy Manpower Expansion j -.ne miiaie passed and sent to the House a bill expanding the authorized strength of the Navy from iU0,U00 eniisite'-d men to 500,000, and tne Marir.e Corps u-om 60,000 to 104,000 men. G.iairman Walsh 01 trie Naval Aftfairs Committee said imi.rAi-cuate imi.rAi-cuate enactment of the bill was ni.cec.aiy oecau.e Maritime Corps enlistments have increased increas-ed so greatly since the war that the Corps vvill soon be ua-able ua-able to accept more unless its autnorized strenfeub. is increased. - i-o.eus.vo sea Areas Are Designated ...e -.v iiyiOigraphic Office Of-fice announced the President lias issued iilxecutive Orders '---.'onaung 13 defensive sea areas along the East and West ruiiritfj, Maine; Portsmouth, Ports-mouth, Ne Hampshire; Bos-'-, a.vlasachjea; iNarrgansett J-ay, riinode Island; New Lon-1 i-.oauieeucu.t; New York Harbor; Delaware Bay and Ri-j ver; Chesapeake Bay and Nor--01K, Virginia; Charleston Harbor, Har-bor, iSout.a Carolina; San Diego, California; San Francisco; Co-lumDia Co-lumDia -rti'ver entrance; tne ' .in,, o. uan de Fuca and Pu-0tt Pu-0tt 'Sound. All vessels other "n naval or Government-siu-1 pervised ships are barred Urom entering tne de.&nsive areas except ex-cept during daylight 'vvhen good Visibility prevails. Then thpvl may e..iter o.-.ly after specikic permission has been obtained either in writing fro,m the Naval Na-val Disurict neadq.uarters or by sgnal wnile on ooard their ship. Vessels 'navigating .in tne -x.ensive wat.rs do so at their OA-n risk. Any master of a 'vessel or any other perso.i' 'A'itih-in 'A'itih-in a defensive area who disregards disre-gards regulations or fails to uuey an order of naval authority author-ity may be detained 'by iforce o. arms and "renders himself li-aole li-aole to attack oy U. S. armed icrces. . . ." the announcement said. Governor Offers Cooperation Pian io Pre.i-en. Roo evelt 1 r-s.dent Roosevelt made t.- li- a message received from a comimittee of the Governor, v-on.eience and toe Council of .a.e Gov-rnments stating the -eed l.'or consisteo.t fiscal action '-y the State and local govenn inients to combat inflation and -At-edite the defense program, -'lie Governor's statement suggested sug-gested the following six major uvities of state and local i-LSI,rr'.en.li-'s duringtihe ourrenit 1 crisis: (1) Give priority to activities activ-ities of state government which ou'd best promote national ie.ense. (2) Postpone non-de-i.ense public works. (3) Maintain Main-tain present public facilities,, cooperative co-operative buying and general j improvement of administrative I c-.iorts. (4) Prepare plans for -useful post-war public works : 10 serve as an economic cua.nion. 1(6) Retire state and local goy-e. goy-e. nment indebtedniess and th-e j accumulated cash reserves to jijiiacee pot-Aar public projects. (6) Safeguard services -rendered 'oy s:ate and local governments ki.d preserve the institutions of L i.iee democracy. Record Vegetable Canning Program For 1942 Secretary Wickard announced the greatest supply of canned vegetables in the history otl' the country is to be produced to meet wartime needs under a program for 1942 which calls iot 40,000,000 cases of canned tomatoes, 38,000,000 cases of canned peas, 12,500,000 cases of canned snap beans and 24,000,-000 24,000,-000 cases of canned corn. Mr. Wickard said these quantities sno-iid provide l:or ever-increas-r. Ci.r.-estic consumption ini 19-12-43 as well as -military, sjliool-Iunah, lend-lease and normal carry-over requirements. require-ments. President A;ks Public Employment Employ-ment Office Consolidation 'President Roosevelt requested Governors o.' the 48 states and Hawaii and Alaaka to consolidate consoli-date public employment services servi-ces under toe Federal Government Govern-ment to centralize recruiting of cleanse workers. His message said the war has made it imperative im-perative "that we utilize to the ullest possible extent all of the manpower and1 wanam povver of this country to increase our production of war materials." ..e aj.-ted that toe 50 state and territorial employment services rt'nki.t now constitute the U. S. Employment Service me made immediateiy " a 'uniformly and ui.' necessity i.'.aiiomally opera-ted mployi.r.ent service." He asked -e Governors io translfer to the entral agency all of their personnel, per-sonnel, records and facilities required re-quired .or operation of a central service. He said instructions nave been issued to Federal of-licials of-licials to piut the coordination process into elect at once. "Inasmuch "In-asmuch as the Federal Government Govern-ment is already paying practicably practic-ably 100 per cent of the cost of operation and the state personnel person-nel has been recruited on a merit basis, there will be no difficulty in transferring state employees into the Federal service," Mr. Roosevelt said. The . .entral agenoy would continue j to service the unemployment j - omt.ensation agency to avoid fp-i ation of ofi.ices. ru-ar Fill The House completed Con-, Con-, z . iooal action and sent to . T-r.,m 1 Kin ovtun. ' ! 111.1. UllJt C UU1 CillllU r.g the life of the Sugar Act ifor three years. |