A Ten-Point Program for Full Employment
WITHERS, WILLIAM
A Ten-Point Program for Full Employment By WILLIAM WITHERS Chairman, Commitlee on Full Employment, League lor Industrial Democrat y The number of unemployed is rising rapidly. Unless tee lake tut...
...3 is the "you're getting gypped" line, include* attacks on OPA, loans to Britain, and food to Europe...
...The windshield wiper's ceased its wiping...
...H* , Corporate income before tsxes of $17,09«.t*t.O0* should leave something more thaa J.H.0S0 000.090) clear if tha excess-profit* tsx remains in full force...
...Unless tee lake tut mediate slept In prevent it...
...Out of 2,205,860 dwelling units, less than 2,000...
...Item No...
...Here is a workable Ten Point Program for full Employment that lends the tray to a planned economy tilth jobs fnr nil...
...Democratic Costa Rica, nearer the Panama Canal than Jorge Ubieo's then dictated Guatemala, got only %\"M.000, while Guatemala received $21,089,-000...
...Laboring classes and democratic circles" is only camouflage for local Communist parties...
...the conservation of natural resources...
...Bring sn those new cars—smarter, slrmger...
...NAZI IDEAS LIVE ON...
...Legitimate reasons perhaps existed for some of these discrepancies, but on the whole the list makes singularly strange reading...
...If you're looking for an apartment in New York City, the prospects at* bad...
...Dictator Trujillo's Dominican Republic got $1,140,000...
...If that tax b repealed, aa la vary likely, then 1949 income should be $ 10.000.000,t»o» or even a lit tie bit higher Thus we gat this picture Grass national product dawn 2* percent from 1944...
...The entire population must be educated in the meaning and practical operation of a full employment program and activized to assume increasing responsibilities in the conduct of their Federal, State snd local government, and of their industrial life...
...They have learned nothing ami they have forgotten nothing...
...profits before taxes down 30 percent...
...8—Coordination of Policies Th* government must thoroughly coordinate progressive trade, taxation, price, wage, hour, and public spending policies...
...Vessels of various kinds," including, of course, a new navy, is part of the plan...
...The total isn't likely to fall far ahort of W.OOO.OOO.OOO after federal taxes and it might qsite conceivably top 1944'a $19,94*».»9*J,9M by a slight margin...
...A screw's gone from the carburetor...
...This should Ire dona in cooperation with State and local governments, cooperatives, labor and management...
...Against whom is this vigilance directed...
...GOOD NEIGHBOR—TO WHOM...
...gam New Cars Will Be Smarter, Stronger.— Newepafter headline...
...The dsnhlight's off...
...Fascism and Nazism in Molotov'* language include every opponent of totalitarianism who is not prepared to bow before Moscow and to take his cue from Stslin...
...SWEDISH LABOR WARNS Stockholm (lpa>—a meeting of the Stockholm Workers Chamber on October 17, at which Premier Per Albin Hanson of Sweden was the leading speaker, adopted a resolution urging a continued and energetic fight against Nazi ideas...
...Molotov asserted...
...Satisfaction was voiced with the recent government decision to expell Nazi refugees...
...Labor must obtain its full share of the benefits derived from new technological developments snd scientific research, as well ss its share of the wealth it creates...
...I can't hold out with mine much longer...
...profit* after paying normal and excess, profits taxes dawn 16 percent...
...profit, after taxes, if the excess profits tsx b repealed, as high as in 1944 or up perhaps aa much as 4 percent...
...Mexico received $20,213,000...
...Public enterprise should be extended in the fields of electricity, transportation, and other public utilities and services, basic industries, mining and other natural resources...
...It wss also pointed out that school courses on the true nature of Fascism were of the greatest importance...
...The tread upon each tire'a diminished...
...His fascist Nationalist Party, recently launched, is a flop, but it is doubtful if he will go out of business, ss the World-Telegravi reporter...
...It should continue its controls over the price structure as long as it is necessary to prevent inflation...
...Ansther's loose, and) going later...
...He is not certain, however, whether this will be possible...
...The sversge for sll corporation* is 1944 was under iO percent sf income...
...Another resolution expressed the hope that all democratic nations, including Sweden, would unite in fighting the Franco regime...
...Atomic energy to fight whom ? Molotov opposes the idea of a Western bloc, as he has repeatedly done before...
...The Murray Bill, in urging national budgeting for Full Employment and in emphasizing Federal responsibility for it, in a first step towards achieving the Full Employment goal...
...And then he depicted the Soviet policy in Eastern Europe as something inoffensive, peaceful, as the opposite of international blocs...
...No relaxation in the vigilance of the Soviet Union...
...1— Govarnmont Guarantee s>f Employment...
...The fight has to go on," Molotov said, "against the remnants of Nazism and Fascism...
...or one-tenth of 1 percent, are vacant...
...the broadening of government employment agencies...
...and that these governments do* not move without consent from Moscow, seems not to disturb Molotov 'a scheme of purely "cultural and economic ties" between Russia and her sphere...
...Oa thia basis ra gross national product of »lM.*fM,M«rM9 to $ 165,000.000.000 > total corporate income before taxes should be shout $17.H#,»•*,•?•, down $8,909,-•eo 000 from 1944...
...And, therefore, he repeats again and again the sentence about the "decisive role" of Soviet arms in the war against Germany and even against Japan...
...Therefore, he sounded s wsrning to his Allies when he said: "The strength of the Anglo Soviet American anti-Hitler coalition, which came into being during the war, is now undergoing a test...
...3—Federal Government Main Economic Planner The Federal government should make aver-all plans based upon the full use of our economic resources...
...This would lower living costs, thereby increasing the purchasing power of the people...
...Dividends next year almost certainty will be higher if income after taxes •should come ap is 1944'a It0,008.000.000 mark...
...Wall Street looks for s peacetime average between 65 percent and 7S percent...
...The Federal government must definitely guarantee useful work for those willing and able to work hut denied employment in private industry...
...Democrats and Socialists, Chiang Kai-shek and de Gaulls, Attlee and Bevin, Truman and Byrnes—they are all suspected of sympathies with Fascism and may very soon be included into the great phalanx of "pro-Fascists" which already embraces 90 percent of humanity...
...the expansion of cooperative enterprise, and assistance to those industries whose growth is essential to the national welfare 4— Public Enterprise...
...if4* PROFITS From Business Week September 1, 1941 CORPORATE profits stand to be aurprisingly good in l»l...
...Molotov is prepared for collaboration with other powers only on condition that the program and the demands of his Government are accepted...
...Molotov Speaks for Stalin least three to four millions will lie the strength of the Soviet Army sfter the demobilization, as compared with 600,000 before the rise of Hitlerism...
...Now Molotov add* that the new Five-Year Plan provides for a "fresh upsurge of heavy industry," which in Russia means also large investment* in war industries...
...At last the amount of arm* given under lend-lease to the vsrious countries of Latin America has been published in W iihington Brazil, as was stated by Worldover Press long ago, got more than half of the $262,702,000 total, or 1154,-280,000...
...At at common decisions in the new conditions where new mnhlcnis v t»>« .-i...
...these Include Truman and Schwel-lenbach...
...He very well remembers the history and the failure of the London Conference in September, and he is in doubt whether the impending problems will be resolved in the Soviet spirit...
...Corrosion's doing for the battery...
...5—- Notional Development Plan...
...Molotov and his Government remsin just as firm and stubborn as they were before...
...ha exclaimed...
...or Bickers barely, And windows sine, bat rather rarely...
...Dictated Paraguay, virtually landlocked, got $1,387,000 as compared to Haiti's $713,000...
...Th* government should encourage the innovation and expansion of new industry related to employment needs...
...2—Hiqher Livinq Standards...
...The Republican News, organ of the Republican National Committee, give* the dominant political line of thst party'* legislators and propagandists...
...Molotov'* Government is merely enforcing democracy in these 'countries, even when it considers only Communists tu lw reliable allies: "The Soviet people had no trouble finding a common tongue with the laboring classes and democratic circles...
...He gives no definite answer to this question...
...The fsn belt's worn and pretty tat-lery...
...Mexico's share was less than Guatemala's, though her population is mora than 20,000,000 as against the sister republic's 3,461,000...
...ths extension and enlargement of social security benefits...
...There's less, by month and day and minute...
...tie u ill soon find out-selves in the iniilsl of another depression...
...And where they weren't, there's been some thumping...
...Actually, however...
...That Yugoslavia is preparing for a military conflict about Trieste...
...Item No...
...The planning and financing program should include planning for the expansion of public health, educational, recreational, and -housing services...
...4—National ludqet...
...Richard Armour...
...least four times he returns to this expression : he affirms—contrary to former acknowledgment* of the importance of th* Allies' assistance—that "our country proved itself able to provide everything necessary for our heroic Army, including first-class equipment which was superior in quality to the weapons of onr for...
...The importance of careful sifting and thorough control of civil servants was stressed...
...He will •tart a National Weekly soon...
...Wartime dividends have been low corn ts th* need far conserving cash to take care of (1) the unforeseeable, and (2) inevitable reconversion coats...
...The Soviet Union," he said, "has never joined groups of powers directed against other peaceable states...
...We want full employment in an expanding economy accompanied by shorter hours and increased wages...
...And more sf scar* of parking battles And rips and rust and squeaks and rattles...
...9—Democratic Procedures In planning for full employment, sdminis-tiative procedures must be developed thst are both democratic and efficient in their nature...
...Will this coalition be just a* strong and capable of arriving war period are coming to light...
...Thi* insistence upon Russia's exclusive role in the war, exceeding the contribution of all her'Allies, and this exaggeration of Russia's ability to produce war materia], is not evidence of peaceful intentions: On the contrary, they are intended to strengthen the Soviet position in the great game of power politics...
...The Federal government must vigorously attack restrictive, monopolistic price and production polj...
...10—Educational Campaign...
...ployment must be made available without disrrimination at increasingly higher living standards...
...Labor, farmers, consumers, management, and professional workers should be adequstely represented on planning and other public agencies...
...2 is the discovery of "leftists" in the Administration...
...Upholstery has lost it* piping...
...Of cloth and steel and rubber in it...
...No relaxation in the rigid rule of the Soviet authorities and of the local Communists in Eastern Europe is promised by Molotov...
...A National Production and Employment Budget should be used as an important part of Federal planning...
...Ex-Senator Robert Reynolds has suspended publication of hi* race-hate paper, the National Record...
...1 is concentration on the "truth" about Pearl Harbor...
...The higher figure could be registered even though any canscrvative forecast aaust allow far a drop from 1944 of 23 percent to M par cent before taxes...
...that Bulgaria is creating a big army against Greece and Turkey...
...the construction of highways and of other public works...
...It might seem that this fight does not need either great armies or the multitude of weapons which take a prominent place in his program...
...Item No...
...The paint grows dull, its finish brushed The bumpers show results of bumping...
...7—Monopoly...
...We will have atomic energy...
...ties, as revealed, in part, in the recent international cartel agreements...
...The terms "laboring classes" and •'democratic circles" must not he taken literally, since Molotov has no "common tongue" with democratic parties and independent Socialist groups in these nations...
...The government should work out, through s National Economic Council and a Finance Authority, reaponsible to Congress snd the President, a national development program to promote full employment...
...M Y car grove* more decrepit yearly, Its days of use are over, nearly...
Vol. 28 • November 1945 • No. 45
