Show washington snapshots BY JAMES PRES indications of a changing changie government attitude toward tiel thi N ma a eions business structure are boing bing pointed to by washington i t ot dc lino line spectators this week one of the principal came from secretary of 1 merce roper as an aftermath of surprising little busi business nebs man s conference the secretary tom toll reporters an examination of the suggestions maje made at the conference and since show that the problems of bi big and small business are arc much ah alike e the two groups of bubin businessmen ss the secretary contin continued d should not bo be considered in a competitive and antagonistic sense coming from the washington inner circle from which has come so much denunciation of the big business and sympathy for the alie little men of industry this is indeed indicative of a new attitude but maybe this news item will counteract all the wholesomeness ot or the above it is quoted from a washington news dispatch secretary perkins has invited the international ladies garment workers union to present the unions musical review pins am needles at the anniversary celebration of the founding of the department of labor in washington on march 3 about 10 numbers from the review which satirizes fascism and certain phases of capitalism will be presented roosevelt laundry and heres more counteraction washington reporters have discovered a painting hung in the main corridor of the new department of labor building which was wa revealed to be a blast at business men the painting is the work of an artist engaged under the public works work art project the subject is a laundry building and in letters quite readable without a microscope is the following sign on the bailing bui Jing ling the roosevelt laundry we clean up the nations soiled business wash not too much starch in the straight jacket please since mr john L lewis has been mentioned by his followers as possible presidential timber in 1940 a lot of people in washington have turned back their newspaper files to last january 5 when mr air lewis made a speech in tuscon arizona on that occasion mr air lewis said he believed our form of gov hal haj failed that it was about time we tried something else in america and then he went on to indicate that he might favor trying communism said he then some people have found they could live happily and successfully in a communal form private insurance higher theres an interesting fact about the social security act being discussed around the capital someone has figured out that for the tax money paid by a worker into the old age pension fund he could receive a considerably larger annuity from a private insurer than from the government for an example it a young man in 1949 when the tax has been graduated to 6 per cent begins work and earns a year he could with his money and the tax paid by his employer get an annuity of from a private insurance company instead of the 85 which the government promises him |