1952 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - HOUSE 2607. then surplus properties. No amount of May we give ourselves loyally and received by any political committee from hindsight can change that fact. wholeheartedly to the things which we any corporation, labor union, individual, in The energy congressional committees have believe and know are righteous and just dividuals, or group of individuals, committee, put into running down criminality, favorit or partnership. ism, waste, and inefficiency in the Govern and true. We beseech Thee that we may endeavor 5. The violations, if any, of the following ment is having a wholesome result. The statutes of the United States: effort has the public backing. to do Thy will· more perfectly, for in But currently, some Members of Congress the doing of Thy will is our peace. (a) The Federal Corrupt Practices Act. seem to be losing their tempers and their Hear us in Christ's name. Amen. (b) The act of August 2, 1939, as amended, perspective. That has led to charges or relating to perniciqus political activities. in~plications that cannot be sustained, and The J0urnal of the proceedings of commonly referred to as the Hatch Act. results in the confusion of the public. That yesterday was read and approved. (c) The provisions of section 304, Public will be the effect of the statements of Sen Law 101, Eightieth Congress, chapter 120, ator WILLIAMS and Representative SUTI'ON first session, referred to as the Labor-Man unless people assume that they are just cry DEPARTMENT OF LABOR, FEDERAL SE· ageme;nt Relations Act, 1947. ing over spilled milk. CURITY AGENCY, AND RELATED IN (d) Any statute or legislative act of the United States, or of the State within which Mr. MAYBANK. Mr. President, I have DEPENDENT OFFICES APPROPRIATION BILL, 1953 a candidate is seeking nomination or reelec not interposed objection to the various tion to the House of Representatives, the requests to have insertions made in. the Mr. FOGARTY, from the Committee violation of which Federal or State statute, RECORD. However, I do not desire to have on Appropriations, reported the bill or statutes, would affect the qualification of the people of the country. receive the MESSAGE CENTER AND FILES John Golden, American: Engineer; de the crosses on the graves of our dead in Francis Yowarsky, American: File signs sprinkler, water distribution, Hawaii, and to see that they are main clerk. drainage, road systems. tained everywhere else that our boys are Valantine Mouratoff, alien: Mail clerk; Jean Falck, alien: Estimate costs of all buried. handles stamps, routes mail, makes up work we contemplate doing. We are in a world conflict between and receives pouches. Oliver Meyer, alien: Estimator. communistic atheism and Christian Donald Hopkins, American: Messen Georges Sagi, alien; Georges Aldebert, civilization. We need not deceive our- ger; carries mail pouches to and from alien: Draftsmen and assistants to , selves. The Christian people of America, Embassy, runs errands, does photo above. and the Christian people of Hawaii, want graphic work-headstones, and so forth. Rounlker, Louis, American: Surveyor; those crosses restored, and it ~s the duty verifies headstone setting and furnishes of the Congress to see that they are re STENOGRAPHIC POOL stored wherever those boys are buried, Mary Klinckhaemers, alien; Janette survey data to contractors. As I pointed out in my report on March and if there is no monuments placed Castanet, alien; Marie-Louise Gervais, above their graves there should be crosses alien; Fernande Maury, alien; Solange 13, a very serious factor in this delay is that Gen. Thomas North, the Sec erected to let the world know that they Buquet, alien: Multilingual stenog represented this great Christian country raphers; handle correspondence with retary of the American Battle Monu ments Commission, is reaching the re of ours. business people, contractors, foreign I shall continue to insist on the pas government agencies, ABMC Washing tirement age. The success of the pro gram is due more to his experience and sage of the resolution which I have in ton, and so forth. troduced to restore these crosses to those Paule Jeanne, alien; Christiane Burn knowledge than any other person. If we should lose his services before the graves in Hawaii. Recently I showed you ham, alien: Clerk-typists for general a picture illustrating how those graves duty. World War II cemeteries and monuments are completed, the cost would be greater. were marked by these crosses, how JANITORS I was convinced on my tour of inspec beautiful that cemetery was before they Henri Jamet, alien: Handy man; po tion that he did everything possible to were removed. After those crosses were lices and guards office building and vehi economize on the contracts, even if it removed, it looked like a cow pasture. cles; saves more than his pay on repair only involved a matter of a few dollars. Mr. JENSEN. Mr. Chairman, will the work. There is no substitute for honesty, effi gentleman yield? Marcel Cattel, alien: Cleans building ciency, and exper·ence. He no .longer Mr. RANKIN. I yield to the gentle and assists mechanic. needs w work by trial and error. He man from Iowa. Paula Jamet, alien: Charwoman; knows all the mistakes that were made Mr. JENSEN. I just want to say that cleans building, guards building and in connection with World War I ceme with the gentleman from New York [Mr. vehicles in husband's absence. teries and can give valuable information McGRATH], the gentleman from Okla Marie Amiard, alien: Charwoman; about building the monuments and con homa [Mr. SCHwABE], the gentleman cleans building. · structing the cemeteries which have from l'linnesota [Mr. H. CARL ANDERSEN] .. I HORTICULTURAL DIVISION grown out of World War II. His experi visited the Punch Bowl National Ceme Charles Cooley, American: Landscape ence and knowledge are saving thou tery in Honolulu last November. May I architect; converts American planting sands and thousands cf dollars every say that our hearts ached when we drove year. into that cemetery; in fact, we could data to foreign plant material; handles hardly realize that we were in a silent planting contracts, selects plants, and My observations and conclusions, city of the dead. We asked the colonel supervises contractors. reached after perscnally iru:pecting all in charge just what brought the remov Graham Rushton, American: Assist of the American cemeteries and battle ing of those original upright tombstones, ant and deputy to Mr. Cooley. monuments in Europe, prompt me to urge and he said, "Well, some organization in Arthur Trewin, alien: Advises and as that the Hom:e of Representatives and Honolulu wanted that done." I then sists World War I cemetery superin the idenate make appropriations to finish stated, that I was sure the Congress tendents in the maintenance and care of these memorials and chapels. It is on would sooner or later pass a bill which their plants and lawns. the walls of the chapels that the names will restore those white crosses or the HISTORICAL r.ECORDS AND DATA of those mi&i.ng in action are inscribed. upright monuments, as a silent re Daniel Gibbs, American: In aaminis We have an obligation to those who sac minder of the horrors of war; to bring trative charge of all cemeteries, World rificed the::.r lives for our country and ·lie to our minds and our hearts every time War I and World War II, particularly of in foreign soil. The American Battle we gaze on them, the fact that our brave records of 124,000 graves. Monuments Commission should be per boys rest there, and that maybe some Kathleen Carter, alien; Carmen de mitted to complete its program at the time, somehow, the horrors of war will Marchi, alien; Huguette Lesage, alien: earliest possible date. The wives, moth be brought so forcibly to the attention Bilingual typists; prepare rosters of ers and fathers of these heroes are en of the people of the world to such a de graves, handle inquiries from relatives as titled to the satisfaction of knowing thelr gree that wars will be no more. I hope to graves, means of reaching them, and loved ones lie peacefully in beautiful sur the gentleman's resolution will be adopt so forth. roundings and are receiving the tender ed by this Congress at this session and SPECIA:. ARC•UTECT care of a grateful Government. The re that the pure white crosses will again Charles Thum, American: Designs and sult will be a symbol to the world of the be put back on the last resting place of prepares specifications for superintend dignified reverence in which we hold the those fine, American, patriotic, fighting ents' houses, garages, and storage build memories of our honored dead. Any de boys and girls who gave their all, that ings at 10 cemeteries. lay in completing the American ceme our beloved America might live on and Roger Demeyer, alien; Pierre Jovo teries and monuments in Europe is false on. vitch, alien: Draftsmen; prepare designs economy. I cannot urge too strongly the Mr. RANKIN. I thank the gentleman for contracts. need for appropriating the money to do from Iowa. the job now. Mr. PHILLIPS. Mr. Chairman, will MA.INTENANCE DIVISION Mr. THOMAS. Mr. Chairman, I ask the gentleman yield? Perry Moore, American: Designs and unanimous consent that all debate on Mr. RANKIN. I yield to the gentle prepares contracts for repair of World the American Battle Monuments section man from California. War I chapels, memorials, and head close in 6 minutes. Mr. PHIILIPS. I want to associate stones. The CHAIRMAN. Is there objection myself with the gentleman's statement. Lucas Antonelli, American: Inspector to the request of the gentleman from I think all members of the subcommittee of contractors carrying out these repairs. Texas? will. There has never been resistance ENGINEERING DIVISION There was no objection. or reduction. We are in favor of what Pierre Rod, alien: Passes upon prac Mr. RANKIN. Mr. Chairman. I move the gentleman has done. ticability of proposals by contractors for to strike out the last two words. Mr. RANKIN. Understand, I am not reducing costs; designs minor features; Mr. Chairman, in addition to what the criticizing the gentleman. verifies translation into French of Amer gentleman from Illinois has said, I want Mr. CAMP. Mr. Chairman, will the ican specifications. to again appeal to Congress to restore gentleman yield? XCVIII-165 2612 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - HOUSE March 20 Mr. RANKIN. I yield to the gentle.. stallation of the Commission, where that fee that that is an absolutely correct state man from Georgia. for community management is at a rate in ment. We feel the committee itself in excess of $90,000 per annum, or for the oper Mr. CAMP. Are the graves marked ation of a transportation system Where that another sentence in that same paragraph at all? fee is at a rate in excess of $45,000 per of the report indicates support for my Mr. H. CARL ANDERSEN. Mr. annum. position and the position of our joint Chairman, if the gentleman will yield, committee. The second sentence reads the answer is that they are marked. Mr. PRICE. Mr. Chairman, I offer an as follows: Mr. RANKIN. They may have marked amendment. In other words, the committee has ap some since we criticized that picture, The Clerk read as follows: plied its reduction to such items as explora but when the first picture was made Amendment offered by Mr. PRICE: On page tion work, the operation of facilities, proc they were not marked at all. 6, line 17, strike out "$708,986,500" and in essing and development work, and experi Mr. JENSEN. With fiat slabs, but you sert in lieu thereof "$801,500,000." mental work in connection with the opera cannot see· them at a distance. Mr. PRICE. Mr. Chairman, I know it tion of producing plants. Mr. H. CARL ANDERSEN. Mr. is not a very popular thing these days That is clearly a contradiction. It is, Chairman, if the gentleman will yield to come into the well of the House and of course, impossible to reduce explora further, in answer to the question as to off er amendments to increase amounts tion work, operation of facilities, proc whether or not these graves are marked; in appropriation bills, but I come here essing and development work, and ex they are, with a slab. by direction of all the members on the perimental work, without also reducing Mr. RANKIN. I understand. House side on the Joint Committee on items involving the acquisition of fis Mr. H. CARL ANDERSEN. But just Atomic Energy, sionable material. as the gentleman from Mississippi has The amendment I have offered in I should like to go a little further and stated, it resembles a cow pasture more creases the figure in line 17 on page 6 say that it could not affect a more im than it does a national cemetery. from $708,986,500 to $801,500,000, which portant program, because this is the Mr. RANKIN. That is right. These means a complete restoration of funds most important part of the atomic crosses should be restored by all means. approved by the budget and deleted from energy program. The Clerk read as follows: the bill by the House committee. I am sorry, Mr. Chairman, my time is ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION I know it is not a popular thing to so limited, but before taking my seat Operating expenses: For necessary operat suggest an increase in appropriations, I want to warn the House the money ing expenses of the Commission in carrying but may I remind the House that neither cuts in this bill can delay our H-bomb out the purposes of the Atomic Energy Act is war popular. We have had a lot of program. These reductions can delay of 1946, including the employment of aliens; war and a lot of trouble in the world be the realization of atomic-powered air services authorized· by section 15 of the act craft and atomic-propelled submarines. of August 2, 1946 (5 U. S. C. 55a); purchase cause sometimes we have been caught of not to exceed 225 pasenger motor vehicles, off guard. I off er this amendment in the I do not think we should gamble with of which 165 shall be for replacement only; hope that we will be on guard her~ today. our atomic reactor program by reducing purchase, maintenance, and operation of air This is a very serious measure. I hope funds for our atomic-energy program. craft; publication and dissemination of the entire membership has had the op Our job is to stay far ahead of Russia atomic information; purchase, repair, and portunity this morning to read the state in atomic development. Reducing these cleaning of uniforms; purchase of news ment placed in the RECORD by the vice appropriations will hinder us in our ef- papers and periodicals (not to exceed $4,000); fort to do so. · ofilcial entertainment expenses (not to ex chairman of the Joint House and Sen ceed $5,000); not to exceed $2,230,500 for ex ate Committee on Atomic Energy, the Our joint committee has put the push penses of travel; reimbursement of the Gen gentleman from North Carolina [Mr. behind the H-bomb program and other eral Services Administration for security DURHAM]. The statement was agreed to weapon projects of the atomic program. guard serviecs; not to exceed $7,290,800 for by each Member of the House repre I hope the House will join with us in program direction and administration per sentation on that joint committee on gi\ring support to an expansion of this sonnel in the District of Columbia and ex both sides of the aisle, and I think the important program which should have tensions; and not to exceed $16,273,475 for top priority in our plans for national program direction and administration per statement would have been agreed to sonnel outside the District of Columbia; unanimously by members of that com security. $708,986,500, together with the unexpended mittee on both sides of the aisle in the Mr. THOMAS. Mr. Chairman, I ask .balances, as of June 30, 1952, of prior year other body if it had been referred to unanimous consent that all debate on appropriations to the Atomic Energy Com them. ·an paragraphs pertaining to the Atomic mission, and such balances shall be available As members of that committee, we Energy Commission close within 5 min- for the payment of obligations incurred by utes. · the Commission in connection with the con have had a thorough opportunity to struction of plants and the acquisition and study the atomic-energy . program. I Mr. GROSS and Mr. JACKSON of installation of equipment: Provided, That of think we are pretty well versed in the Washington objected. such amounts $100,000 may be expended for problems of the Commission and in the The CHAIRMAN. May the Chair objects of a confidential nature and in any main mission of the Commission. I suggest to the gentleman from Texas such case the certificate of the Commission think any decrease in the funds sought that if he desires to limit debate on all · as to the amount of the expenditure and by the Commission on the items that are the paragraphs pertaining to the Atomic that it is deemed inadvisable to specify the nature thereof shall be deemed a sumcient here represented would be a serious set Energy Commission, he first ask unani .. voucher for the sum therein expressed to back to our program in several phases. mous consent that the remaining para.. have been expended: Provided further, That This morning I want to cover at least graphs be considered as read. from this appropriation transfers of sums one or two of those phases. Mr. THOMAS. Mr. Chairman, I ask may be made to other agencies of the Gov First, I should like the Members to unanimous consent that all the remain ernment for the performance of the work for know exactly to what section of the bill ing paragraphs be considered as read, which this appropriation is made, and in If such cases the sums so transferred may be my amendment is directed. you have and that all debate on all paragraphs merged with the appropriation to which a copy cf the committee report, on page under the heading Atomic Energy Com transferred: Provided further, That no part 5 you will find a table. My amendment mission be limited to 15 minutes. of this appropriation shall be used to pay is directed to the first two subsections The CHAIRMAN. The Chair will put the salary of any omcer or employee (except of that table under the heading of "Op the first portion of the gentleman's re such omcers and employees whose compensa erations." That subsection includes quest. tion is fixed by law, and scientific and tech some of the very important phases of the nical personnel) whose position would be Is there objection to the request of the subject to the Classification Act of 1949, as atomic-energy program. One of them is gentleman from Texas that all the re amended, if such act were applicable to sucb. ''Source and fissionable materials." In maining paragrapps on the subject of position, at a rate in excess of the rate pay.. the committee report it is stated: the Atomic Energy Commission, down able under such act for positions of equiva.. The committee wishes to point out that through and including line 16 on page 8 lent dimculty or responsibility: Provided this reduction has been applied to items be considered as read and printed at this further, That no part of this appropriation other than those involving the acquisition point in the RECORD. shall be used in connection with the payment of fissionable materials. of a fixed fee to any contractor or firm of Mr. JACKSON of Washington. Pend contractors engaged under a cost-plus-a.. We, as members of the Joint Com ing amendments will be considered, of fixed-fee contract or contracts at any in.. mittee on Atomic :F;nergy, do not feel course, when they are oiiered? 1952 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD -.. HOUSE 2613 The CHAIRMAN. That will not pre The CHAIRMAN. The Chair will en The CHAIRMAN. The time of the vent the gentleman from Washington, or deavor to divide the time among those gentleman from Oklahoma has expired. any of the gentlemen from offering Members who are on their feet seeking Mr. DURHAM. Mr. Chairman, I know amendments. time 0:.1 this subject. it is very easy to criticize any program Mr. HOLIFIELD. Mr. Chairman, a The question is on the motion of the today. We can probably criticize most parliamentary inquiry. gentleman from Texas. of our own perso:nl lives as we all make The CHAIRMAN. The gentleman The motion was agreed to. some errors. We can find instances all will state it: The CHAIRMAN. Does any Member along the path of life that we would like Mr. HOLIFIELD. It would limit the desire to be heard on the amendment to correct. What was the objective of time to less than 5 minutes for each offered by the gentleman from Illinois this atomic energy program to begin Member desiring to speak. · [Mr. PRICE]? with. It bas been said by men who have The CHAIRMAN. This portion of the The Chair recognizes the gentleman far more knowledge than I have what gentleman's request has nothing to do from Oklahoma [Mr. ALBERT]. this weapon has been worth ah·eady in with any limitation of time. Mr. ALBERT. Mr. Chairman, I take . the defense of the American people and Mr:HOLIFIELD. But, the second por this time for only one purpose, and that the free people of the world. It has been tion would limit the time on each is to seek information. We are all most said by Churchill and by others who are amendment, would it not? anxious to provide the necessary funds far better informed than most Members The CHAffiMAN. If the request is for the Ato.mic Energy Commission, but of this House that if it had not been agreed to, the time would be limited, but I, for one, was impressed by the state for the development of this weapon in the request presently before the com-· ment made yesterday by the gentleman America and stockpiling it, the · Soviet mittee has nothing to do with any limi from Tennessee [Mr. GORE] about the Government would have marched long tation of time. Government being obligated for the ago, and probably would dominate far Is there objection to the request of the salary of some former employee who is more territory than they do at the pres gentleman from Texas that all the re- . now working with a concern which has ent time. We should forget about the maining paragraphs on the subject of a cost-plus contract with the Atomic little things involved here today that are the Atomic Energy Commission· down Energy Commission, a salary which is played up to discredit this program. Of through line 16 on page 8 be considered almost double the salary the Commission course I do not approve of wasting as read and printed at this point in the paid him. money, but we can correct those things, RECORD. I would like to ask the gentleman and we have corrected them. Every There was no objection. from Illinois [Mr. FRICE] whether any Member of this House has ha~ some part The Clerk read as follows: of the money provided in his amend in doing that at one time or another. I Plant and equipment: For expenses of the ment might be used-for some such pur have never favored cost-plus contracts Commission in connection with the con pose. and we should stop it. There have been struction of plant and the acquisition of Mr. PRICE. None of the money car speeches made for the last 12 years in equipment and other expenses incidental ried in the amendment I have offered regard to that matter. Personally, I thereto necessary in · carrying out the pur has anything to do with construction. have opposed it from the very beginning poses of the Atom!c Energy Act of 1946, in Evidently the case referred to by the days of World War Il. I have intro cluding purchase of land and interests in gentleman from Tennessee [Mr. GORE] land, $371,741,000: Provided, That nc:i ·part of duced bill after bill to put this agency. this appropriation shall be used- must necessarily have dealt with con AEC, under contract authority; and we ( A) to start any new construction project struction. have held hearing after hearing to se.. for which an estimate was not included in Mr. ALBERT. I would like to ask the cure full information so we can proceed the budget for the current fiscal year; gentleman this further question: Is there with contract authority legislation and · (B) to start any new construction project any likelihood that iii protecting the then, in my opinion, we could keep a the currently estimated cost of which ex necessary secrecy which clothes this close watch on each installation and new ceeds by 35 , percent the estimated cost in- Commission's work we may unneces ~aj~~ . cluded therefor in such budget. · sarily be giving to the Commission au Liquidation of contract authority: For ex This cut without question, in my mind, penditure by the Commission to liquidate thority to enter into extravagant as op cuts this operation to a point of danger. obligations incurred under prior year con posed to necessary contracts? The weapons that defend America and tract authority, $57,000,000. Mr. PRICE. I do not think so. I am the free world today are dependent in a · Reduction in contract authority: Contract sorry that I did not have additional time, · large measure on our operation and pro authority available to the Commission is because this is a very important matter. duction. I know the temper of this body hereby reduced by $635,623. Our program is threatened by this re h ere today is to cut deeply. I fear what The CHAffiMAN. Is there objection duction of funds. may happen if we do not maintain our to the request of the gentleman from Mr. TABER. Mr. Chairman, will the present program and we simply cannot Texas that- all debate on paragraphs of gentleman yield? do this under the restrictions and reduc the bi)l relating to the Atomic Energy Mr. ALBERT. I yield to the gentle tions carried in this bill before us. Commission, and all amendments there man from New York. The CHAmMAN. The gentleman to, be limited to 15 minutes? Mr. TABER. The fact is that in the from Pennsylvania [Mr. VAN ZANDT] is Mr. DURHAM. Mr. Chairman, I ob Hanford plant and the Los Alamos plant recognized. - ject. there are contTacts of just that kind Mr. VAN ZANDT. Mr. Chairman, I Mr. THOMAS. Mr. Chairman, I a.sk operating right now. By direction of rise in support of the Price amendment. unanimous consent that all debate on all the .committee on Appropriations they As a member of the Joint Congressional paragraphs of the bill relatiilg to the have probably gotten rid of most of Committee on Atomic Energy, along with Atomic Energy Commission, and all them at Oak Ridge, but it is only because other members of that committee, I have amendments thereto, be limited to 20 the gentleman from Texas [Mr. sat in executive session mornings, after minutes, with the last 8 minutes reserved THOMAS] and the gentleman from Cali noons, and evenings listening to testi to the committee. fornia [Mr. PHILLIPS] were alert and on mony in an effort to keep abreast of the the job that that was stopped. Unless Mr HOLIFIELD and Mr. VAN ZANDT development of atomic energy. I feel objected. something like this is done, you will have sure I speak the sentiment of the major these folks running around wild with ity of the committee when I say that the Mr. THOMAS. Mr. Chairman, I move these operational contracts, letting con that all debate on all paragraphs under committee membership has kept abreast tracts to people to operate towns even. of the development of atomic energy. In the heading Atomic Energy Commission Mr. .AI.iBERT. I thank the gentle and all amendments thereto, close in 30 man. addition, I feel the committee has pro minutes. Mr. PRICE. I would like to say that tected at all times the interest of the Mr. VAN ZANDT. Mr. Chairman~ a my amendment has absolutely nothing American people, and we have intelli parliamentary inquiry. to do with the condition about which the gently represented most of the time the The CHAmMAN. The gentleman will gentleman is asking. Nothing in the wishes of the majority of both Houses state it. world. of Congress. · Mr. VA..~ ZANDT. How will the time Mr. ALBERT. I thank the gentle Unless the Price amendment is adopt be divided, Mr. Chairman? man; I am for his ~mendment. ed, you are going ~o s~rike a blow at tl_le 2614 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - HOUSE March 20 very heart of the development of atomic salaries and expenses for operations. submitted forthwith by the Director to ney have over 62,000 people outside of the Appropriations Committees of the Sen weapons. ate and the House of Representatives and My colleague from Illinois mentioned regular AEC employees in Washington the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy; the the exploration for raw materials. For and the field, what we call contract limitations contained in this proviso shall several years I could not. understand the employees. not apply to any construction project the extraordinary cost of locating new de· Mr. BROOKS. Mr. Chairman, I ask total estimated cost of which does not ex posits, but having visited the project re· unanimous consent to yield my time to ceed $E'.l0,000; and, as used herein, the cently, I am convinced the costs are the gentleman from Texas. term 'const ruction project' includes the pur Mr. THOMAS. Mr. Chairman, I may chase, alt eration, or improvement of build necessary. ili gs, and the term 'budget' includes the The committee action strikes at the accept that later on, but I will not ask detailed justification supporting the budget heart of the reactor program. If you for the time now. estim at es: Pr ovided further, Th at whenever want to support a program that will The CHAIRMAN. Without objection, the current estimate to complet e any con make possible the atomic-powered sub the gentleman from Louisiana [Mr. struction project (except community facili marine, atomic-powered aircraft, then . BROOKS] may transfer his time to the ties) exceeds by 15 percent the estimated support the amendment offered by the gentleman from Texas [Mr. THOMAS]. cost included therefor in such budget or gentleman from Illinois [Mr. PRICE]. If There was no objection. the estimated cost of a construction pr.oj The CHAIRMAN. The question is on ect covered by clause (A) of the foregoing you want to support the development of proviso which h as been approved by the tactical weapons and the type of bomb the v,mendment offered by the gentle Director, the Commission shall forthwith that can be carried on a fighter, inter man from Illinois [Mr. PRICE]. submit a detailed explanat ion thereof to ceptor, a light or medium bomber, vote The amendment was rejected. the Director of the Bureau of the Budget for the Price amendment. If you want Mr. GORE. Mr. Chairman, I offer an and the Committees on Appropriations of to support the development of the war amendment. the Senate and of the House of Represent head for the guided missile, vote for Mr. The Clerk read as follows: atives and the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy: Provided further, That the two fore PRICE'S amendment. But if you want to Amendment offered by Mr. GORE: On page going provisos shall have no application curtail the development of the atomic 8, after line 14, insert the following: with respect to technical and product ion aircraft carrier, the submarine, the tac "No part of the appropriations herein facilities (1) if the Commission certifies to tical weapon, as well as the warhead for made to the Atomic Energy Commission the Director of the Bureau of the Budget guided missiles, vote against the Price shall be available for payments under any that immediate construction or immediate amendment. contract hereafter negotiated without ad continuation of construction is necessary vertising by the Commission unless such to the national defense and security, and Frankly, I feel the Committee on Ap contract includes a clause to the effect that propriations does not have all available (2) if the Director agrees that such cer the Comptroller General of the United States tification is justified." information on the atomic-energy pro or any of his duly authorized representa gram, and for that reason the Price tives shall until the expiration of 3 years Mr. THOMAS. Mr. Chairman, a point amendment should be adopted. after final payment have access to and the of order. The CHAffiMAN. The gentleman right to examine any directly pertinent The CHAffiMAN. The gentleman from Texas [Mr. THOMAS] is recognized. books, documents, papers, and records of the contractor or any of his subcontractors en will state it. Mr. THOMAS. Mr. Chairman, there gaged in the performance of and involving Mr. THOMAS. Mr. Chairman, I make ought not to be a thing in the world transactions related to such contracts or the point of order against the amend partisan about this program, because it subcontracts: Provided, That no part of such ment on the ground that it places extra affects everyone equally, and I am sure appropriat ions shall be available for pay duties on the Director of the Bureau there is no partisanship in it. The group ments under any such contract which in of the Budget and that it is legislation of our colleagues comprising the legis cludes any provision precluding an audit by on an appropriation bill. However, I lative committee are men in whom we the General Accounting Office of any transac will withhold the point of order for the all have confidence, likewise our sub tion under such contract." time being. committee. We have two studies of this Mr. GORE. Mr. Chairman, in the Mr. JACKSON of Washington. Mr. program. It is strange to me, fine as course of our study of cost-plus contracts Chairman, the language contained in the these gentlemen are, patriotic as they we came upon the rather startling in pending amendment is the same lan are, that every time the Committee on formation-startling to us at least guage that is in the current appropria Appropriations tries to eliminate any that the Atomic Energy Commission was tion law for the Atomic Energy Commis waste dire predictions are made. I will entering into certain contracts by which sion. I think that we all share the con-. stand or fall on this statement: If you the Commission itself and the General cern that the subcommittee and the full can put your finger on a more wasteful Accounting Office were denied the priv Committee on Appropriations have to organization of this Government than ilege of auditing certain overhead al- save as much money as possible in con the Atomic Energy Commission, I will lowances. · nection with this program or any other go along with you in restoring this cut. We do not think such a contract is in program. There are no finer men in this House on the public interest. This amendment is But I do want to make one thing clear either side of the aisle than those who offered as a committee amendment, to the Members of the House. If you are jointly offering this amendment; I unanimously agreed to this morning by will turn to page 5 of the committee re know them and you know them; they the subcommittee, and I ask that it be port you will find that for the first time are valuable, outstanding Members of adopted. the committee has itemized the expendi this House. · The CHAffiMAN. The question is on ture of funds in connection with the Mr. Chairman, do you recall 2 years the amendment offered by the gentle atomic energy program. This has never ago when your subcommittee tried to man from Tennesse [Mr. GORE]. been done before. The truth is, so that reduce a fee for community operations The amendment was agreed to. all Members of the House will know, at Oak Ridge? The city operators were Mr. JACKSON of Washington. Mr. that the members of the joint commit receiving a fee of $180,000 a year and the Chairman, I offer an amendment. tee, both Republicans and Democrats, committee reduced it to $90,000, for do The Clerk read as follows: have examined the secret budget, and ing a $25,000-a-year job. It was the it will disclose that by the action today same group that said the Atomic Energy Amendment offered by Mr. JACKSON of you may seriously cut funds for atomic Washingon: On page 8, lines 10 and 11, after Commission will fold if you do that. "estimated cost of which exceeds," strike out weapons. You have seriously cut into That was 2 years ago. The House went "35 percent of the estimated cost included other phases of the program that are along with the Subcommittee on Appro therefor in such budget" and insert "the indeed vital. Now that view is shared priations at that time and reduced this estimated cost included therefor in such unanimously by all members of the joint item to $90,000-although we made a budget: committee. mistake then; it should have been re "(C) to continue any community facility I am sure we are all aware of the diffi duced to $25,000. But the Atomic En construction project whenever the current· culty under which we labor today. We ly estimated cost thereof exceeds the esti· ergy Commission is still in operation. mated cost included therefor in such budget: labor under the difficulty of security. I This cut of $92,000,000 covers a myriad unless the Director of the Bureau of the can say this, that the most vital con of items. It is not going to curtail their Budget specUlcally approves the start o! struction projects in the hydrogen bomb operations one bit; it is not going to ·such construction project or its continua- program now under way, in my judg hurt them. Most of this money is -for tion and a detailed explanation thereof is ment, could not have been started if the 1952 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - HOUSE 2615 proposed riders as contained in the pend radically changing plans for a given ica, and eventually reaching to our own ing bill before the House had been in project. Unless we recognize this neces country. I ask you to restore this ap the law last year. sity, we will in the end cost the taxpayer propriation according to my amendment. Mr. ELSTON. Mr. Chairman, will the far more money-and we will cut a slice Mr. JONES of Missouri. Mr. Chair gentleman yield? from the very heart of our national man, will the gentleman yield? Mr. JACKSON of Washington. I yield security. Mr. HOLIFIELD. I yield. to the gentleman from Ohio. If you are building a house and part Mr. JONES of Missouri. I wonder if Mr. ELSTON. I want to say to the way through the job you find the roof the gentleman would mind telling the gentleman that I fully concur in what will cave in unless you change your House what his committee has done as to he has said about his amendment. The plans, you do not proceed blindly. . trying to eliminate the waste and ex committee very carefully considered his The amendment I advocate is a com travagance that is going on in the con amendment and the members who were mon-sense amendment. Its real effect struction at such places as Paducah at present at the meeting unanimously will be to save money and to save our this time. agreed that it was sound, and I hope it security as well. I urge that it be Mr. HOLIFIELD. We have constantly will be adopted. I would like to say in adopted. watched these projects. We find that addition that the adoption of his amend The CHAIRMAN. Does the gentle you have to sacrifice some money if you ment will not increase costs. man from Washington desire to be heard are going to get speed. This is a matter Mr. JACKSON of Washington. That on the point of order? of getting certain things done within a is exactly right. It is a further limita Mr. JACKSON of Washington. For very short length of time. I wish I had tion on the proposed rider that is in the the sake of time, I will concede the point the time to go into it more thoroughly. pending bill. of order, Mr. Chairman. Mr. COTTON. Mr. Chairman, I rise The rider I propose, the same as that The CHAIRMAN. The point of order in oppcsition to the amendment, and ask in the existing law, is even more re is sustained. unanimous consent to revise and extend strictive than the one proposed in the The Chair recognizes the gentleman my remarks. bill before us. My rider places a limita from California [Mr. HOLIFIELD]. The CHAIRMAN. Is there objection tion upon construction projects where Mr. HOLIFIELD. Mr. Chairman, I to the request of the gentleman from the estimated cost is only 15 percent offer an amendment. New Hampshire? more than originally estimated in the The Clerk read as follows: There was no objection. budget, whereas the rider in the bill does Mr. COTTON. Mr. Chairman, we have Amendment offered by Mr. HOLIFIELD: On not come into operation until the in page 8, line 4, strike out "$371,741,000" and already heard from several distinguishf:d crease in estimated cost is 35 percent insert in lieu thereof "$435,500,000." Members of this body who are members or more. of the Joint Committee on Atomic En But the rider which I have proposed Mr. HOLIFIELD. Mr. Chairman, my ergy, and for whom we entertain the through my amendment has the tre amendment is concerned with the bot highest feelings of respect and whose mendously important virtue of contain tom third section of the chart on page 5 pa~riotism is to be commended. How ing an escape clause. This escape clause of the committee report. The question ever, I just want to suggest to the mem functions when we develop new scientific is just this, and I realize that the answer bers of this committee that we face this information-information not foreseen has already been given on the Price matter with a little common sense. I at the time the budget had been pre amendment because my amendment is want you to bear in mind exactly the pared-information not foreseen at the similar to the Price amendment except situation before you get terror-stricken time Congress acted on the budget-in that his applied to operations and mine by all this talk that we are endangering f ormation which must be exploited im applies to the plants in which to con the security of this country every time mediately if we are to preserve and in duct the operations and the equipment we dare to say "No" to some small part crease to the utmost our atomic advan which will go into some of those plants; of the request of the Atomic Energy tage over Russia. In such cases, and, yes, some of the plants that are now be Commission. believe me, they have arisen recently in ing constructed at Paducah, and Savan The Atomic Energy Commission is a the H-bomb program and will arise nah, Ga., at a cost of many millions of splen~id organization, performing per again-they are vital cases-it is imper dollars. Part of the equipment that will haps the most vital task in this country ative that, with proper safeguards and go into them is contained in this cut. today. However, their headquarters is proper certifications through the Direc We are faced with a very difficult prob only a little more than a mile down Con tor of the Bureau of the Budget, the lem: The nine members of the Commit stitution Avenue. They have 2,200 auto Commission be permitted to proceed. tee on Atomic Energy from the House mobiles. At this very moment they are Now I am no naive and uncritical ad are thoroughly aware of this program. either on their way up here with a sup mirer of everything the Atomic Energy We have spent not 2 or 3 days on hear plemental request for more funds or they Commission does. That Commission is ings on this matter, as did the Committee are stopping midway at the Bureau of composed of human beings, and they on Appropriations, but we have spent the Budget. Before we could bring in sometimes make mistakes. One such weeks and months on this atomic-energy this bill they were back with an addi mistake occurred when they let a program. It is not a thing we can get up tional request. They can come every plumber make $756 in 1 week. We on and argue openly on the House floor be day of the year to us, and they do come the legislative committee immediately cause if we did so argue, and give you as often as necessary. jumped on the Commission for that-we the arguments that we know are good We are taking only about $170,000,000 had them up for a hearing within 24 arguments, it would give comfort to out of an appropriation of $1,200,000,000. hours of learning what had happened. the enemy, and certainly none of us Do not tell me that is going to plunge We in the Congress-both the legis wants to do that. us into a situation of insecurity and pre lative committee and the Appropria I can only say. to you that the restora vent the production of atomic weapons. tions Committee-must do our best to tion of this appropriation has the full We of the subcommittee are just saying cut costs. No one is more anxious than approval of the nine members of the -to them, "Be a little careful. We want I to be ruthless in eliminating waste. House Committee on Atomic Energy, who to watch this project as it goes along. No one is more anxious than I to create have studied it carefully for many We are with you, but we have an obli cost consciousness among Commission months. We believe it will do harm to gation to watch expenditures." personnel and among the personnel of the atomic program and that it will crip The members of the Joint Committee all other Government agencies. ple us on that part of our defense pro on Atomic Energy claim they have spent But when all this has been said, the gram, which gives more value to the weeks on end examining this program, fact remains tha~ the Congress may dollar, in my opinion, than any other while the Committee on Appropriations well be in recess from July through De part of our defense program. We are spends only 3 days each year, but mark cember of the present year. During that spending a billion dollars on atomic en this: same period, judging by past experience, ergy. In my opinion, it is the fear of the In all the time we have been struggling there may well arise in the hydrogen atomic bomb that is keeping Russia with this problem I have never known program and in the atomic-bomb pro from spreading its tentacles all over of one single inste.nce when a member of gram the absolute necessity of revising or Europe, South Africa, and South Amer- the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy 2616 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - HOUSE March 20 has come to one of us on the Appropria the bill without any harm to atomic sonnel and as a result of transfer appH tions Committee and said, "I have been energy development? Who is the cations in radio, FM and AM, the Fed out in these plants. I have looked over Atomic Energy Commission entertain eral Communications Commission is this program. I will tell you one place ing? about 1 year behind on its work in proc where you can save a little of the tax Mr. THOMAS. If you really press me essing applications. payer's money." for an answer, I will say "Yes." But it I say to you that if this cut which the All we are asking you to do is to back serves a useful purpose. They will have committee has made in the appropria us up as we perform our sworn duty to some distinguished scientists coming here tion for the Federal Communications keep an eye on this huge, ever-growing from England, France, and Canada, and Commission, a cut of some $1 ,900,000, operation. Do not worry, the program from our own United States who are not remains as is, we people in the backwoods will not suffer. They know where the traveling at Government expense. They areas are not going to have television Congress sits. They know the way to will go to Washington, and to these var stations in our areas for a period of 5 the Capitol. They have the automobiles ious installations, and, of course, they or 10 years to come. Just as soon as so they can get there quickly. They will will be the recipients of that good old the freeze is lifted, you Members of this be up here tomorrow, if necessary, and if hospitality. . That is what it is spent for. House will find that approximately some they really need more money they will I am giving you the facts, and of course 2,000 TV applications in the United get it. the committee can decide what to do. States are going to be filed with the Fed Mr. THOMAS. Mr. Chairman, I rise Mr. GROSS. Will the gentleman tell eral Communications Commission. If in in opposition to the amendment. me since when it became the custom for the last year, when they have not been Mr. Chairman, this amendment seeks Europeans to pay their own expenses? working on television applications, they to restore the entire cut here on con It seems to me we have been paying them find themselves 1 year behind in the struction. First, let me tell you that for a long time-in fact, far too long. processing of applications, can you im the Atomic Energy Commission has Mr. THOlVl"-AS. I cannot argue with agine what turmoil there is going to be grown so fast in the last 2 years, I doubt my friend. I have given you the facts. in the Federal Communications Com if they know exactly everything they There they are. Of course it is generous. mission with the filing of some 2,000 have and what they are doing and where I am not going to try to evade that. TV applications. · they are doing it. They have 32 or 33 The CHAIRMAN. The time of the In the processing of these applica installations. This money here covers gentleman from Iowa has expired. tions the Commission will take them up construction, alterations, and repairs of The Clerk read as follows: according to the size of the communi dozens upon dozens of items---even for ties, and it means that cities which al the construction of an office building. FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION ready have television will have first Think about it. There is $284,000,000 Salaries and expenses: For necessary ex chance to have their applications for penses in performing the duties imposed by new stations processed, and by the time here for construction work at Savannah, the Communications Act of 1934 (47 U.S. c. the new plant. That is the budget esti 151), the Ship Act of 1910, as amended ( 46 they get into districts like mine where mate. Not one dime of that $284,000,000 U. S. C. 484-487), the Internationa1 Radio the largest town is some 40,000 people, was stricken. So the cut of some $81, .. telegraphic Convention ( 45 Stat. pt. 2, p. it is going to be 10 years, if we do not 000,000 is scattered over 100 or 150 dif 2760), Executive Order 3513, dated July 9, give the Federal Communications Com ferent projects. It is not going to hurt 1921, as amended under date of June 30, mission more personnel and more money them one iota. They have a building 1934, relating to applications for submarine in this year's appropriation bill. This here that is being constructed-I am cable licenses, and the radiotelegraphy p:.-o appropriation is the most important in visions of the Convention for Promoting sorry I do not have the cost of it-at Safety of Life at Sea (50 Stat. 1121), includ the history of the Commission. Scioto, which is already in a stand-by ing newspapers (not to exceed $175), lan d Mr. COX. Mr. Chairman, will the condition. Now is the time for this and structures (not to exceed $3,000), special gentleman yield? crowd to call a halt, and to look and counsel fees, improvement and care of Mr. O'KONSKI. I yield to the dis see what they have, and to take stock. grounds and repairs to buildings (not to tinguished gentleman from Georgia. They should go on and complete the exceed $17,500), purchase of not to exceed Mr. COX. Is the gentleman serious in plant at Savannah. You have your full 10 passenger motor vehicles for replacement his proposal that we increase the money only, and services as authorized by section budget estimate for the cost there. This 15 of the act of August 2, 1946 (5 U. S. C. for the Federal Communications Com reduction will not hurt them one bit. 55a) , $6,108,460, of which not to exceed mission? Mr. Chairman, I respectfully ask the $78,700 shall be available for expenses of Mr. O'KONSKI. I am dead serious. committee to vote down this amendment. travel. Mr. COX. Does the gentleman know The CHAIRMAN. The question is on that Commission, who composes the the amendment offered by the gentle Mr. O'KONSKI. Mr. Chairman, I of Commission, and does he know its rec man from California [Mr. HOLIFIELD]. fer an amendment, which is at the desk. ord? The amendment was rejected. The Clerk read as fallows: Mr. O'KONSKI. I do know that in The CHAIRMAN. The Chair recog Amendment offered by Mr. O'KoNsKI: On the past there bas been considerable dis nizes the gentleman from Iowa [Mr. page 13, line 10, after the comma, strike out content among the Members of the GROSS]. "$6,108,460" and insert "$8,000,000." House in the personnel and manage ·Mr. GROSS. Mr. Chairman, I should Mr. O'KONSKI. Mr. Chairman, the ment of previous Commissions. 'Most of like to ask the chairman of the subcom Federal Communications Commission it I feel has been without foundation. mittee a question or two with reference asked for a budget of some $8, 700,000 in Mr. COX. There is one man on that to page 6, lines 9 and 10, where there round :figures. The Bureau of the Bud Commission who deserves the respect of is provided for official entertainment ex get cut it to approximately $8 ,000,000 in the Congress, and that is Bob Jones. pense not to exceed $5,000 for the Atomic round figures. The Committee on Ap He is the only man on the Commission Energy Commission. Will the gentle propriations cut it to $Q,100,000 in round who deserves our respect. man explain that item in this bill in view figures. Mr. O'KONSKI. I will say to the gen of his previous statements of wild spend I know something about the inner tleman from Georgia, whom I respect ing on the part of the Commission? workings of the Federal Communications very much, more so than any other Mem Mr. THOMAS. Mr. Chairman, I will Commission. For instance, I know that ber of this House, for his information I answer the gentleman's question to the in the last 4 years the Federal Com would like to say that regardless of what best of my ability. That example, may munications Commission has not ap might be said of the Federal Communi I say to my distinguished friend, the proved one single television station. cations Commission in the past, the pres gentleman from Iowa [Mr. GRossJ, is There has been a freeze on the general ent personnel of the Commission is among just positive proof that this committee television industry. The freeze, as we the finest in our whole Government set has not hurt the Atomic Energy Com understand it, is to come off the latter up. I do not know of a more sincere or mission one bit. They want $5,000 for part of this month or the first part of harder working force anywhere in our entertainment every year, and your sub next month. In spite of the fact that Government. committee, generous as we are, give it the Federal Communications Commis I have heard criticism, I have heard a to them. That is the answer. sion has not approved one single tele great many allegations in the past. But Mr. GROSS. Does the gentleman vision application in the last 4 years, we I will say for the present personnel of think that that item could be cut out of find that as a result of their cut in per- the Communications Commission to the 1952 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - HOUSE 2617 gentleman from Georgia that I think $8,705,492 with which to operate for the et request. I believe the people of this most of the things for which the Com year 1953. The Appropriations Com great country want this done. I am con mission was criticized and for which most m~ttee reduced this by $2,597,032. vinced that it is in the interest of econ of the personnel of the Commission were During the hearings before the sub omy to our Government. criticized in times gone by has been committee of the Committee on Appro Mr. THOMAS. Mr. Chairman, I ask eliminated and wiped out so that the priations of this House the then Chair unanimous consent that all debate on personnel of the present Commission are man of the FCC spoke of the continually this paragraph and all amendments beyond reproach in every respect. No growing backlog of work before the thereto close in 15 minutes, the last 5 to agency of our Government has taken Commission. He said: be reserved to the committee. over so much responsibility with less With this budget, there are many, many The CHAIRMAN. Is there objection money and personnel as has this Fed things that are proper functions of the Com to the request of the gentleman from eral Communications Commission. mission wmch are being slowed down almost Texas? Mr. COX. Mr. Chairman, will the to the point of extinction-functions which There was no objection. gentleman yield further? we have which are important but which we The CHAffiMAN. The Chair will di Mr. O'KONSKI. I yield. have had either to delete entirely or to slow down to a snail's pace because of the demand vide the time evenly between those Mr. COX. The present Chairman of for a tight budget. Members who were on their feet at the the Commission has operated on the I would like to say I believe if we had all time the request was made. Commission for a great number of years. of the money we think we need to carry an The Chair recognizes the gentleman When Lawrence Fly was head of the the work of this Commission, it would be from West Virginia [Mr. BAILEY]. Commission he was thinking of Mr. Fly, good for the economy of this country. I am I and when Mr. Fly's successor came in he qui ~e sure that if we had the money to keep Mr. BAILEY. Mr. Chairman have operated in the same fashion. abreast with the processing of applications asked for this time in order to 'support I said a while ago that there was only that come before us, it would pay dividends the amendment o..ffered by the gentle to the Treasury of the United States over man from Wisconsin. Just a few days one man on the Commission worthy of and above the outlay to the Communica public respect; I want to amend that a go in conference with the Federal tions Commission for the processing of those Communications Commission I found and add the nephew of the Speaker of applications. And while this is a tight the House, who went to the Commission budget, or an economy budget, I think it is that they are rewriting and reclassifying a few days ago. a false-economy budget, if I may :;ay so, and t~e present television stations, one par Mr. O'KONSKI. Getting away from it would be better if we had the money we ticularly in my State of West Virginia the personnel of the Commission, the need to process those applications in terms that will deprive several hundred peo of the financial position of the country (p. ple-several thousand users of television people in the backwoods area are entitled 1180, hearings). to this new thing, this new development equipment of service. Those people al this new medium we call television; and In the radio and television depart ready have their own television sets. we should not fight the people of Amer ments of the FCC alone there are 2,410 The only way they can get service is for ica in holding back this industry by AM radio stations, 658 FM radio stations, the Federal Communications Commis denying sufficient funds and personnel and 108 television stations. This totals sion to enlarge their processing activi to the Commission to do the job re 3,166 broadcasting stations throughout ties to process these applications. We gardless of what our attitude and feel the country under the direction of the have 14 applications pending in the ings may be toward the personnel of the FCC. Among the AM stations there are State of West Virginia. These people Commission. Why take our spite out 1,048 which are now awaiting hearings are going to be without service until on the people just because a few do not on new applications, changes, or renew these applications can be processed. als of license. There are people who have invested like the personnel of the Commission? thousands and thousands of dollars in The answer is simple. If we want tele For three long years there has been freeze on television stations. This television sets, yet they will have no vision to grow, with 2,000 applications a service because of the action of the Fed coming up, either the Commission gets freeze, which denies most of the people of this country the opportunity have eral Communications Commission in more money and more help or millions to changing the classification of existing of people will be denied television service television in their homes, is caused large stations. for 5 to 10 years to come. ly by the fact that the FCC does not The CHAffiMAN. The Chair recog Mr. REAMS. Mr. Chairman, I rise have the staff with which to do their to nizes the gentleman from Georgia [Mr. support the amendment to restore work. The Commission cannot be sure Cox]. $2,579,032 to this bill for the operation on these limited funds that it is expand of the Federal Communications Com ing this great new field of communica Mr. COX. Mr. Chairman, it surprises mission. The Federal Communications tions in the interest of all the people for me that a fine responsible Member of Commission is unlike any other commis the indefinite future. this House and one for whom I have a sion or bureau of Government. It is Cutting this budget is not saving very genuine affection should ask this charged by Congress with the duty of ex money. It is stiffing a young but a very House to increase the appropriation car ercising a rigid control over the great vigorous industry. It is refusing the ried in the bill for the Federal Commu private industries of telephone, · tele American people education, entertain nications Commission. This Commis.: graph, and radio and television. These ment, and enlightenment to which they sion is supposed to be bipartisan, but I private industries are fraught with a are entitled. It is keeping from the can say to my Republican friends that public interest and should be r~gidly reg Treasury of the United States millions there has not been a time in 20 years ulat~d. But this Congress by con of dollars in taxes because it is withhold when it could be said that they had rep trolli~g .and drastically cutting the ap ing an opportunity for people in this in resentation on that Board, with the ex propriation for the operation of the dustry market to operate the broadcast ception of Bob Jones. All others claim Federal Communications Commission ing stations and from manufacturers op ing to be Republicans were hybrids. can stifle these businesses and retard portunity to build the sets and equip I have said before, and I repeat, that the opportunity of the American people ment which the people want. in the main the Board has been the nest to enjoy radio and television. Again, I repeat this is not economy. ing place of people in the Government At the same time that the Congress It is an arbitrary withholding of the who were most representative of the peo refuses to permit the FCC to have ade right of a part of our population to do ple that we are now trying to drive out quate funds to process applications for business and for a very large segment of of Government service. This Commis radio and television, it refuses permis our people to enjoy the results of it. sion, of all governmental agencies in sion to these private industries through Congress, I am sure, without any in Washington, has performed as if it were fees or otherwise to purchase this neces tention of the Members of this House the hired agent of the Reds. I speak sary service. The result is that the peo to do so, by cutting this bill and holding the truth and I know what I am talking ple of the country are denied the full en back the radio and television industry, about. joyment of the possibilities of radio, and is giving a new variation of Aesop's an I had a serious controversy with this to a much larger degree they are denied cient story of the dog which lay in the Commission a number of years ago. the pleasure and benefit of television. manger and would not eat the hay nor They were on their way out. The effort The Federal Communications Com permit the cattle to feed thereon. I to get rid of a majority of the Board, mis3ion asked the Budget Bureau for urge this committee to restore the budg- however, was stricken down by reason 2618 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - HOUSE March 20 of the intervention of President Roose duties of that office turned over to some about 25 percent of this item, which is a velt, who had seized the records in the one who can work. new item. If you will refer to page 33 Commission, the records in th~ Navy and Mr. Chairman. that is all I have to of the committee report, you will find the War Departments, and everywhere say. I am indignant. that in the 1952 appropriation there was else and physically transported them to The CHAffiMAN. The Chair recog an item for operating expenses under the the White House, where they are still, so nizes the gentleman from Texas [Mr. General Services Administration of far as I know. In addition to that the THOMAS]. $107,000,000. In the 1952 budget that representatives of the Navy and War De Mr. THOMAS. Mr. Chairman, I want has been broken down into four items, partments who had worked with the to say to our good friend and colleague one of which is the item of executive di committee investigating the CCC were the gentleman from Georgia [Mr. CAMP] rection and staff operations. By totaling browbeaten, abused, and threatened with that the committee has endeavored to these four items you will find that we, in court martial. eliminate that practice, and I might say this appropriation, actually would be in I know the Commission has been en that the gentleman who wrote that let creasing the $107,000,000 total to $109,- trusted with more money than it should ter has now resigned, and we think that 000,000, an increase of some $2,000,000. have had. The effort that the Govern the Commission is going to do all right This executive direction and staff op ment has put forth to shield this aggre with the money we have given them. erations item is a very difficult one to run gation of rascals has been shameful. Certainly they do not need the nearly down to find out just what it is. If you The present Chairman of the Commis $2,000,000 extra that our genial friend will refer to page 153 of the hearings, sion was there when the scoundrel Law the gentleman from Wisconsin seeks to you will find an analysis and some tes rence Fly was down there terrifying the add to this budget here. timony, but very slight, on this subject broadcasters all over the country. The Let me give you a few figures. You of just what this executive direction and present Chairman of the Commission know this bill provides 1,151 jobs for staff operations means. I think on ex slinked into my office about 10 days ago that Commission. You know that is a amining it you will find that what it is, is to offer explanations and make peace. tremendous number of jobs. Now, they top overhead and, actually, instead of an But there is nothing that he could do have four or five big divisions of work. increase there should be a decrease. The that would make me feel that he is fit One is what we call safety and special General Services Administration in its for the job he holds. · The rascally part services, taking care of short-wave-radio own report has stated that it has been he played as one of Fly's men forever broadcasting for truck lines and bus setting up field organizations to decen outlawed his right to public respect so lines and police stations. Then they tralize their activities to a certain ex far as I am concerned. have the field engineering and monitor tent. One statement the GSA makes The Commission ought to be abolished ing work and common-carrier activities. page 1530 of the hearings-is, "operating and a new agency set up. I look for But the point is this, my colleagues: One counterparts of each central-office func ward to action in that regard and in that of the big backlogs in the past has been tion in this group are located in the re particular at some near date in the regular broadcasting. They have prac gional offices, except for information and future. Of course, you will not grant tically caught up with that, as the gen contract settlement." In other words, it the Commission more money. tleman from Georgia just pointed out, would seem that as they decentralize The CHAffiMAN. The Chair recog but now their big load in the future is there should be less expense, not more, at nizes the gentleman from Georgia [Mr. going to be television. We have recom the central point. Actually, as I say, CAMP ]. mended that, instead of giving them a there is an increase that is being asked Mr. CAMP. Mr. Chairman, I am not big increase in the number of personnel for in this new item of executive direc able to discuss the matter of television. to take care of the TV as they wanted, tion and staff operations. applications, but I wish to call the atten we have requested them to transfer those It is my recommendation in this tion of the chairman of this subcommit employees who have been handling nor amendment that we cut that item back to tee and the Members of the House to m al broadcasting work and whose work $4,029,750. It is about a 25-percent cut what I call a defiant attitude on the part load is going down and down and down of what they are asking. The commit of the Federal Communications Com every dar to TV. But, still, we tried to tee cut 14 percent; my proposal cut is 11 mission. help them and we earmarked 10 addi percent more. As we can visualize it On the 5th of August 1951 one of my tional employees for TV over and above from the little information we have, it is constituents inquired about the status of the employees they can use from their mainly cutting the top overhead per his application which had been filed by regular broadcasting activities. I should sonnel, and should in no way affect the his radio station in my district on April think we have given them ample funds actual operation of the General Services 27, 1951, for permission to raise the in 1,151 jobs, and we ask that the amend Administration in the field, where they height of its antenna 6 feet, a very ment be voted down because we do not are perfarming their functions. simple application and to which there think they can possibly use the addi I call your attention to one further could possibly be no objection. On Au tional amount provided in the amend item: In the General Services Adminis gust 15, 1951, he received a letter from the ment. tration statement on page 1530 they • secretary stating that, due to cuts made The CHAIRMAN. The question is on make this remark: in their appropriation by the House, the amendment offered by the gentle Experience to da te in GSA indicates that they did not have the personnel to han man from Wisconsin [Mr. O'KoNsKIJ. false economy begins to creep in when the dle such applications, that they had filed The amendment was rejected. percentage for such costs falls below 5 them in the order of their date and were The Clerk read as fallows: percent. handling them chronologically, that the GENERAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION They point out that in 1951 the total order number of this application on Au Executive direction and staff operations: cost was 5.3 percent; in 1952, 4.6 percent; gust 15, 1951, was 47. For necessary expenses in the performance and in 1953, 4.2 percent. However, they I wrote them a letter again in March, of executive direction and staff operations throw no light on where they get that and on March 18, 1952, I received a let for activities under the control of the Gen percentage figure. As best I can deter eral Services Administration; including not mine, this item would not be cut much ter, again defiant, that they could not to exceed $86,565 for expenses of travel; not do this because they did not have funds to exceed $250 for purchase of newspapers below a 5-percent figure if '\\e accept the and that the order number now is 31. and periodicals; and processing and deter cut I have proposed. So in a few days more than 7 months mining net renegotiation rebates; $4,648,300, I think this is exactly the point where they evidently processed 16 applications. we do want to make savings. I again say The letter that they wrote to me was Mr. CURTIS of Missouri. Mr. Chair that GSA is supposed to be decentralizing an insult to my intelligence and to my man, I offer an amendment. its activities. If they are doing that, cer office as a Member of this Congress, and The Clerk read as follows: tainly the central office itself should be I do not know what we are doing to al Amendment offered by Mr. CURTIS of Mis economizing in cutting back, and I think low such as that to go on in one of souri : On page 15, line 8, strike out "$4,648,- this is an opportunity for saving $618,550. these agencies. If they can process but 300" and insert "$4,029,750." Mr. THOMAS. Mr. Chairman, I ask 16 applications in 7 months, the time Mr. CURTIS of Missouri. Mr. Chair unanimous consent that all the para has come when the entire appropriation man, this is a cut of approximately $600,- graphs under the heading of "General should b~ taken from them and the 000. It actually will make a net cut of Services Administration" be considered 1952 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - HOUSE 2619 as read and printed in the RECORD at this act shall be used during any quarter of such gotiation Act of 1951, $9,300,000, which to ti.seal year to purchase within the conti gether with the unobligated balance of the point. nental limits of tlie United States type appropriation granted under this head for ?--1Ir. TABER. And be open to amend writing machines (except bookkeeping and the ti.seal year 1952, shall remain available ment. billing machines) at a price which exceeds until June 30, 1954: Provided, That to the The CHAIRMAN. They would be open 90 percent of the lowest net cash price, plus extent refunds are made from this appropria to amendment; yes. applicable Federal excise taxes, accorded the tion of excessive profits collected under the Is there objection to the request of the most-favored customer (other than the Gov Renegotiation Act and retained by the Re gentleman from ·Texas? ernment, the American National Red Cross, construction Finance Corporation or any of There was no objection. and the purchasers of typewriting machines its subsidiaries, the Reconstruction Finance , ' 1952 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - HOUSE 2641 There is another bill relating to the of course, conference reports may be The SPEAKER. · The Chair recognizes same subject matter, the Post Office De brought up at any time. the gentleman from Virginia [Mr. partment, reported out of the Committee Mr. MARTIN -0f Massachusetts. One STANLEY]. on Post Office and Civil Service, but no of our colleagues inquired as to whether Mr. MADDEN. Mr. Speaker, will the rule has been reported on it. If there we are going to come in early tomorrow gentleman yield? are no serious objections to the bill H. R. morning. Mr. STANLEY. I yield to the gentle 4323 and none are ·expected-however, Mr. McCORMACK. On that I am man for a question. no o'ne can tell about that, and my in guided by the chairman of the subcom Mr. MADDEN. I would like to inquire formation is that there is no opposition mittee handling the bill, and he thinks of the gentleman regarding the division to the bill-then an effort might be made it would be a good thing. When the of time. I understand that 1 hour is set to bring the other bill up by unanimous Committee rises, and we are in the aside for debate on this. Would the mi consent. I assume my friend from Mas House, I shall ask unanimous consent to nority have any time? sachusetts has been consulted about meet tomorrow morning at 11 o'clock. The SPEAKER. The time is entirely that, and if not, he will be. The bill Mr. THOMAS. Mr. Chairman, I move in the control of the gentleman from H. R. 4323, however, I am programing that the Committee do now rise. Virginia, and he may yield or not yield for tomorrow after the pending appro The motion was agreed to. to anyone during the next hour. priation bill is disposed of. Accordingly the Committee rose; and Mr. STANLEY. Mr. Speaker, may I We are going to be under pressure the the Speaker having resumed the chair, next 2 or 3 weeks to get. appropriation say to the gentleman from Indiana [Mr. Mr. MILLS, Chairman of the Committee bills out of the way. The Members are MADDEN], it is hoped that very little time of course well aware that the leadership of the Whole House on the State of the will be used on this resolution, and I on both sides are very anxious to give Union, reported that that Committee, shall be glad to yield to him a little later. the Members the usual Easter recess, having had under consideration the bill Mr. Speaker, I am in the most unusual starting the Thursday preceding Easter / 1952 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD·- HOUSE 26 ~17 Wilson was nominated. I was running a on which you can base a lasting government. The SPEAKER. Is there objection to tractor around a quarter section of land and Governments built on that philosophy are the request of the gentleman from it took 2 miles to map that circuit. · At the built on a rock and will not fail. Colorado? corner wa.s a little telegraph station, about When our own government has looked af There was no objection. a quarter of a mile from where I was WOfk· ter the average man first, we have grown and ing. I'd go down to that telegraph station prospered, but when those in power have Mr. CHENOWETH. Mr. Speaker, I and see how the convention was coming on. used our government to increase the privi have · received a petition from residents That is how I found out that Woodrow Wil leges of the few at the top, the life and spirit of my district which has made a deep son was nominated. We did not have radio of our country have declined. Thank God, impression upon me and I would like to or television in those days, and we did not most of the time we have been on the right call it to the attention of the House. have pollsters or false political prophets ' road. This petition is signed by people living either. I voted for Wilson, in that year and RECALLS DEPRESSION for the most part in Crestone, which is I believed ever since in the policies he fol In the lifetime of everyone here we have located in Saguache County, Colo. lowed. He was one of our greatest Presi had a chance to see how this works, although dents, and I sincerely believe that if we had some of you may not be old enough, and I'm These persons are calling upon Congress followed him in what he wanted to do we sure none of you are old enough to remem to take steps to end the war in Korea. would certainly have avoided the Second ber the great depression. In the last 20 years, The petition reads,as follows: World War. I hope that we will no_t make the government of the United States has PETITION that same mistake after this last world war. made great progress in measures to help To the Honorable J. EDGAR CHENOWETH, APPEALS TO YOUTH and to protect the average man. We have Congressman, Third District of Colorado, Now, I understand that a· lot of people are not been ashamed to work for human wel House Office Building, mystified and wondering why I came all the fare at home and abroad. Washington, D. C.: way up here from Key West to talk to you I just want you to examine the facts and We, the following mothers, wives, sisters, today. The answer is very simple. I came see for yourself what the results have been in sweethearts and relatives of men now fight because the future of this great Republic of better living conditions for the American ing in Korea, or who will be called for duty ours depends upon young people like you, people and in strengthening the base of our in Korea, respectfully request that you urge and also for the reason that for the last democracy. More and more people have been Congress to im:inediately take the necessary 7 years the young people have been coming able to have better and better living con steps to terminate the unnecessary, arbitrary, to see me at the White House. There is ditions. and unsuccessful so-called police action in hardly a week goes by that I do not see a In 1939 only one out of four families had Korea, which is causing needless death and delegation of young people who pass through an income of more than $2,000. In 1949, it injury to thousands of American boys. my office and shake hands with me, and was two out of three. There are fewer poor We are told that the will of the people is I either have a word or two to sa:· to them. people and more well-to-do people in this reflected through the acts of Congress, and if And now I am here, and you are in exactly country now than ever before. Not only in this be true, we are of the firm belief that the same position that you would be at the this crmntry, but in the history of the world. thousands of like petitions bearing millions White House-you'd have to listen. We have been reducing inequality not by of signatures can be presented to other C.on The United States of America is the great pulling down those at the top but by lifting gressmen in support of our contention that est RJpublic in the history of the world. We up those at the bottom. This great record the present slaug:O.ter of our young men in want to keep it the greatest Republic. It of progress has been the result of our policy Korea must cease immediately. will be up to you young people to do that job of the Fair Deal and under that policy we We make this request in the name of in the future. look out for the other fellow as well as for Almighty God, unequivocally and unre Youth is the hope of the world. That was ourselves. servedly attested to by our signatures, with the motto on the front door of the high That same program applies to our foreign the further request that it be read in the school from which I was graduated, only it policy. \Ve cannot isolate ourselves from our Congress of the United States and recorded was in Latin, Juventus spes mundi. I will neighbors in the rest of the world. When in the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD of that legis never forget it; I have never forgotten it. something hurts them it hurt us; when lative body. And I still thinlt that the youth is the hope something helps them it helps us. · of the world, and it always will be. It is just The way to keep our own country strong Mr. Speaker, this petition is signed by as true now as when I came out of that and prosperous is to encourage and develop 57 persons, all of whom are mothers, small-town high school. It is necessary for prosperity in the rest of the world. We can wives, sisters, sweethearts or relatives the young people to understand the road to learn a lot from the rest of the world. There of men now :fighting in Korea. These be followed if this country is to accomplish are many things that even the people of people have a personal interest in our the mission which God intended it to accom undeveloped countries in the world can teach attitude toward Korea. I suspect they plish in this world. us. We must exchange ideas; we must ex I hope I can give you some idea of how change goods; we must exchange friendships. are expressing the sentiment of a vast majority of American citizens, who are to follow that road into tomorrow, and the NO IMPERIAL AIMS future of the world. I hope you will go back pleading with Congress to take the nec to your schools and talk about it and discuss We are not imperialists. We- do not want essary steps to bring an end to this stale· it. I hope you will write about it in your any more territory. We do not want to con quer any people or to dominate them. The mate in Korea. publications, because it is your responsi Mr. Speaker, I do not think Congress bility as editors to work for the good of your Russian propaganda says that we are im great country, and for the future of the perialists and want to conquer the world. can, or should, longer postpone the ac· world. Both are in your hands. That just isn't true. We know the Soviet tion that the signers of this petition seek. Government is a menace to us and to all the They are speaking for the rank and file · IDEALS COME FIRST free world. That is why we are building up of our people, who are demanding' an Now, the thing I want to impress upon you our strength, not to march against them but end to this useless slaughter of Ameri· is that government must be operated on the to discourage them from marching against can boys. basis of the greatest good for the greatest us and the free world. number of its citizens. That is the funda We want to help people in other countries The time is here, Mr. Speaker, when mental basis of the domestic program and to help themselves because that makes for the situation in Korea should be care· foreign policy of this Government of yours prosperity for us all. I want you young peo fully appraised by Congress and our in· and mine. No nation-is good and can last ple to understand that if we· accomplish the fluence used to bringing an end to this unle::s it is built upon ideals. Our Nation purpose which we propose to accomplish it tragic chapter in our history. is built upon ideals, ideals of unselfishness means the greatest age in the history of the and respect for the rights and welfare of world and you will live in the grandest, most others. peaceful times that the world has ever seen. The SPEAKER. Under previous or· The fundamental basis of this Nation's It's up to you to help carry on that purpose ideals was given to Moses on Mount Sinai. der of the House, the gentlewoman from for it may take more than one generation Ohio [Mrs. BOLTON] is recognized for 15 The fundamental basis of the Bill of Rights to accomplish it. But we can accomplish it. of our Constitution comes from the teachings We are going to accomplish it and I know minutes. we get from Exodus, St. Matthew, Isaiah, and that you will help accomplish it. I appre. St. Paul. The Sermon on the Mount gives elate again being here. May God bless you SHORTAGE OF NURSES us a way of life. Maybe some day men will all. Mrs. BOLTON. Mr. Speaker, the understand it as the real way of life. tabling by the Committee on Interstate The basis of all great moral codes is "Do and Foreign Commerce on Tuesday of unto others as you would have others do un PETITION to you." Treat others as you would like to this week of H. R. 910, my bill to produce be treated. Some of yo·\ may think that such Mr. CHENOWETH. Mr. Speaker, I more nurses, leaves the country in too a philosophy as that has no place in politics ask unanimous consent to address the critical a situation to permit it to pass or government, but it is the only philoso:;:ihy House for 1 minute. unnoticed. I have asked for time this 2648 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - HOUSE March 20 afternoon in order to pull together the Such a step would require amendment larger number of students as soon as we picture of the problem which the short of the State license laws for nurses can get them if we are ever to begin to age of nursing presents at this moment, which, while it might be a long, slow meet the situation that looms before us. pointing up certain possibilities of solu process, is certainly not an insuperable Nor can we neglect the field of recruit tion which will, after all is said and done, problem. ment in whatever program we build. have to be found. In order to protect the nurse, there With a rather dramatic drop in the total The present estimate of the nurse fore, any present plan to shorten the number of high school girls available who shortage is reckoned at some fifty to actual time involved in nurse training are being sought by the armed services, sixty thousand. It is important that would have to contain temporary meas as well as by industry, we cannot expect there be no misunderstanding of the ures conforming to the 3-year period re-· to attract any great number into nursing causes of the shortage for it does not in quired by State law. You may recall unless a very real effort can be made any sense mean that there are fewer that Public Law 74 provided a 2%-year through a well-considered recruitment nurses. The estimate of nurses on ac period of training and 6 months' service plan. This does not need to be elab tive duty today is 325,000 to 330,000 in a hospital. This proved to be a life orate, though it will need some funds to nurses as against 300,533 in 1949. It saver to our hospitals and provided a function. does mean that there has been a tre kind of internship for the student which In whatever program that is evolved mendous expansion of health and medi was of the greatest value to her. What the training of the practical nurse must cal services, with even greater expansion has been done once can be done again, be a definite part, for she will be an in taking place almost daily. It means although the form of it might be dif dispensable member of the team. Much that there are more old people-that ferent. of her training can be within the pur more women go to hospitals to have What are the situations that must be view of the vocational schools, in close their babies. It means that as men have faced by anyone honestly trying to meet cooperation with nearby hospitals. gone out to fight more nurses are needed the facts of today's need? What ele Talking with members of the Interstate in the armed services and in veterans' ments tend to delay constructive action? and Foreign Commerce' Committee, who hospitals. It means all these things and Where are the dragging feet? objected to the provisions of H. R. 910, more. No one factor is probably more dif I have found them keenly aware of the It is perhaps natural that the hospitals ficult to bring into line than any other, gravity of the situation the country faces. feel the shortage most, for nurses are no difficult as some of them certainly are. This awareness will, I trust, make possi different from other human beings Perhaps the most difficult of all is that ble a meeting of minds that will bring they go where the salaries and the work doctors and nurses both have not yet before this House a bill which the com hours are the best. The spread out of recognized the reality of the changing mittee membership will wholeheartedly hospitals into industry and public-health world. In this they are not unlike the endorse. services is therefore to be expected. On majority of laymen-who never really From my conversations I should imag top of that has come the flow into the want to change-who just want to be left ine that, first, it should not attempt any armed services which, though not suffi alone, to go on doing the way they have permanent legislation but should be set cient to meet their needs, is accelerated always wanted to do. up to meet the emergent needs, even by the pay and perquisites now offered though it would of necessity want to as well as by the improved working con Unfortunately, such days are over and done with. And those who are not recognize the time element involved in ditions. awake and aware are apt to get run over nurse training; second, although the ac What we are faced with is a deficit of or find themselves deserted on the high tual funds would have to channel some fifty to sixty thousand trained through a Federal agency, the use of nurses-and the probability is that the way. Studies being made all over the United those funds would be placed under State conditions which have brought this authority with possibly a few simple about will continue to function so that States appear to bring out a few com mon ideas: (a) scientific medicine of standards and ratios written into the leg we shall be facing an ever-growing need. islation. Many States have agencies in Unless drastic steps are taken to fill it, itself has created a need for new skills in nursing, skills which are not neces whom this authority could well rest. we shall find ourselves in a gravely seri Those that do not would have to get busy ous plight. sarily required to be a part of the knowl and set them up. Mr. Speaker, no situation is ever edge and practice of all those who care for the sick; (b) a consequent thought No one can fail to be aware of the wholly without a constructive side-for emergent need for more nurses, Mr. necessity is a wonderful enlightener. therefore emerges: That the care of the patient might best be done by a team, Speaker, to care for the Nation's sick, The inability to secure a sufficient num nor of the inability of existing schools ber of nurses to cover the care of their each of whom has the adequate training . for a particular area of service-the doc to meet that need without assistance. sick has forced the hospitals to face the Where can the schools turn in the emer facts of the uneconomic use of this tor with his staff of technicians, the gency except to the Congress? skilled personnel which has carried over scientifically trained nurse with her staff Again I say, Mr. Speaker, that I shall from the days of apprentice training. of trained assistants, the hospital house hope for a very real cooperation from Ward maids are more and more assum keeping department with its corps of trained, organized, and thoroughly un those who, because of their tabling of ing the housekeeping, housecleaning H. R. 910, will undoubtedly have devel side of patient care; ward secretaries derstanding personnel. oped ideas which can be drafted into have begun to do the time-consuming Already some hospitals are experiment sound legislation, perhaps somewhat p~, per work, and semiskilled groups are ing in various ways of carrying out this along the lines I have suggested. serving under nurse supervision in ever idea-although hampered by the diffi Mr. Speaker, I am including herewith increasing numbers. The use of the so culty of securing adequately trained per three articles from the New York Times called practical nurse is fast becoming sonnel. But it is not a new idea. It resulting from an exhaustive survey recognized as a necessary and vital requires only a fluid attitude on the part made by them, giving a clear picture of factor in· any program of over-all care of boards of trustees, hospital managers. the facts we are faced with that the of the sick. Not only is she also in short as well as of the professional groups. Membership may be thoroughly in- supply-but her training has not as yet Fundamental to any attack upon our formed: · been safeguarded as it must be if she is lack of nurses is the truly desperate need of teaching personnel. Whatever as [From the New York Times of March 4, 1952] to be a responsible factor in the general sistance which might be given students NURSE LACK ACUTE AT CITY HOSPITALS-STAFF program, nor have license laws been will be pretty futile if there are not Is LEAVING FASTER THAN IT CAN BE RE passed in more than a very few States. teachers to teach them. This would PLACED-LOW PAY AMONG CHIEF REASONS- Another result of the present need for 0NE HEALTH CENTER IDLE-VOLUNTARY IN mean provision for assistance to nurses STITUTIONS FARING BETTER-VA FACILITIES nurses has been the realization that the for graduate work to fit them for teach Ar.so REPORT LITTLE SHORTAGE 3-year period of training, the time period ing positions. Without more teachers (By Harold Faber) required by most States for license back any large increase in the number of stu The Nation-wide shortage of nurses has ground, could be shortened, probably to dents would create an impossible situ bit New York harder than any other large good advantage. ation and we must have ·a very much city in the country. 1952 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - HOUSE 2&19 Nurses are leaving the city hospitals faster for rent. The Veterans' Administration gives New York Hospital: With 642 nurses on its than replacements can be made. Those who $3,740 to its beginners. staff, is 20 percent short of its requirements, remain cannot give adequate care to patients To compete with these higher pay scales, but a spokesman said only one medical wa:rd because of their increased work load in al the department of hospitals and the board and one private-duty unit had been closed. ready overcrowded facilities. As a result, of health are asking for a $350 pay increase She added, "We're ge11ting along fine." the department of hospitals operates with for the nurses in the budget for the next Mount Sinai Hospital: Shortage of 13 only 53 percent of the registered nurses it fiscal year. There is orily a slight chance nurses in calls for 193 nurses one day last needs. that they will get it. month, but the director said the situation The shortage in the hospitals is paralleled In asking for the increase, Dr. Marcus D. was "not too bad." in the department of health. To maintain Kogel, commissioner of hospitals, summa Most of these hospitals have nursing its public-health services, it needs at least rized the situation this way: schools attached and the work of the stu 1 ,600 nurses, has an authorization for 1,071 "I doubt if history records any previous dent nurses helps relieve the pressure: All and employs only 795. period when our hospitals were in greater of them have stepped up their employment The reasons are simple: low pay and poor distress from their irn"bility to recruit and of auxiliary workers and some have in working conditions compared with the vol hold personnel essential to the operation of creased their advertising for nurses, a policy untary hospitals in the city, which have a modern hospital. Our greatest problem is that others consider unethical. only a minor nurse shortage. And there are still the bedside nurse. The competition of In the competition for nurses, which goes no indications that either condition will be hospitals for nurses is something close to on below the polite surface of concern about improved in the foreseeable future. frenzy and the shackles which bind us make mutual problems, the city departments, of 'l.'he result s have been that the city bas us a poor last in the race. course, come off worse than private and been forced to close wards in some hospitals, "The prospect before us is frightening. It Federal agencies. has failed to open many new wards in other cannot be denied that there are patients who CITY CANNOT COMPETE hospitals and cannot find the nursing staff suffer needlessly and their recovery is re Dr. John F. Mahoney, commissioner of to open at least one new child-healt h cen tarded because of the critical nurse short ages. Our most desperate plight is revealed health, admitted what everybody knew ter. In addition, nursing service is spread during the afternoon a-nd night shifts when when he testified on his budget requests last dangerously thin in most hospitals and one nurse may have to assume charge for month-that the city couldn't compete for health centers. nurses with anybody else, especially the 400 to 600 patients. Federal agencies--and asked for higher CITY HOSPITAL SITUATION "We carry a dreadful and grave responsi wages. bility if, knowing the facts, we stand by Specifically, the nurse shortage has kept The Veterans' Administration, in particu th~ following hospitals from operating at supinely and take no action that can improve lar, has been the chief target for those who full capacity, although the need for their the situation." accuse the Federal Government of "steal beds is urgent: CITY LOSING GROUND ing" nurses from city hospitals everywhere. James Ewing Hospital, First Avenue and As a matter of fact the big worry at the A spokesman for the agency said these Sixty-eighth Street: This cancer hospital has present time is not how to improve the situa charges were "not exactly true." a capacity of 275 beds, but only 199 beds are tion but how to stop ·a steady deterioration "A nurse would be a fool if she didn't take 1n use. of nursing service, both numerically and in the highest pay available," he explained. Francis Delafield Hospital, Fort Washing quality. Dr. Kogel frankly admits that the The competition apparently is going to ton Avenue and One Hundred and Sixty city hospitals are losing ground. sharpen in the future, because the supply third Street: It has beds for 307 patients, but He and his associates, taking a realistic of nurses is not going to rise as fast as the only 156 are occupied. attitude, know that the problem of the nurs need. City officials who have described the ing shortage cannot be solved in one insti situation as critical !or years now are Kings County Tuberculosis Hospital, tution-it is a national problem. All their running out of words, but, in fact, their Clarkson A venue, Brooklyn: Only 468 of its efforts, if successful, will only keep city insti problem is getting worse. ,725 beds are in use. tutions in the same relative position in re For example, one of the biggest headaches More dramatic than these empty beds is gard to other institutions, a position in at the department of hospitals is what will completely vacant child health center in a which the city hospitals always will be losers. happen to Bellevue Hospital when the new tht Melrose housing project at 348 East One For example, at one time several years ago, Veterans' Administration Hospital, now un Hundred and Fifty-sixth Street, the Bronx. the city hospitals took the lead in raising der construction at First Avenue and There a fully equipped station lies useless salaries and put themselves in a relatively Twenty-third Street, is completed in 1953. because two nurses cannot be found to good position as far as quantity of nurses staff it. was concerned. But the voluntary hospitals "How many nurses do you think are going to remain at Bellevue," one nursing execu In addition, the visting nurses of the with a much more flexible financial policy, tive asked, "when they can walk across the department of health are so busy that they soon overtook them and attracted more street and do the same work for $1,000 a cannot visit classrooms in schools more than nurses. year more?" once a year, and they can only tell a new At present, the voluntary hospitals in the mother· how to prepare a baby's formula be city have a nurse shortage, too, but it can Nursing jobs in city hospitals only be described as slight. · Most of the cause they L.aven't time to show her. private hospitals say they are not hit hard ~ 3 KEY CALLED LOW PAY and insist that they haven't been forced to rn ~ .0 .& :g ·~~ The key to the shortages, overwork, and curtail services. · Here are what some of them $?. 01:: ·~~ eg'j .s:: ~ crowding is low pay. The basic starting report: 'O ~~ A"' Title g'l .»'"' ;.;g wage for a city nurse is $2,650 a year, which Lenox Hill Hospital: Could use a few more ·~ 0 tg .0 g ..03 0 Q "O.., includes a $250 cost-of-living bonus. That nurses, but the superintendent added, "we're .0 1j gS ~ ~ :3 ~ is about $10 a month less than the voluntary not badly off at all." cS <1 :> ~ ~ r; hospitals pay their nurses, who, in addition, Long Island College Hospital: In a first get an afternoon and night differential of rate position and didn't need any more Profe8.5ional nurses____ 6, 804 388 3, 604 515 2, 297 from $10 to $40 a month. nurses. Pract.ical nurses______l, 863 144 ------1, 271 448 Higher than both these scales is the pay Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center: 29 Hospital attendants___ 4, 180 175 ------423 3, 582 offered by t:ie Armed Forces and the Veter vacancies in an authorized staff of 362 nurses, ans' Administl'ation. The Army, Navy, and but "is not feeling any acute shortage." Total_------12, 847 707 3, 604 2, 209 6, 327 Air Force start their nurses as second lieu Roosevelt Hospital: Needs 17 more nur~es These figures were announced by the Department of tenants at $213.50 a month, plus $42 for food, out of a total of 66, but is not critically Hospitals in making its budget requests for the next a nd provide either quarters or $75 a month short. fiscal year. Nurses' pay scales compared City hospitals (New York) Voluntary hospitals (New York) Armed Forces Veterans' Administration Staff nurse, $221-$260. Staff nurse, $230-$270. 2d lieutenant, $213.50 plus $42 food and Junior grade nurse, $312-$379. $75 quarters. B ead nurse, $226-$266. Head nurse, $250-$290. First lieutenant, $249.38 plus $42 food, Associate nurse, $370-$433. $82.50 quarters. Chief ntirse, $250-$290. Chief nurse, $280-$320. Captain, $313.50 plns$42food, $90 quarters. Nurse, full grade, $422-$484. The above monthly figures do not include any allowance for a differential ranging from $10 to $40 a month granted by voluntary hospitals for night and afternoon work. In addition, the Armed Forces scale includes the Navy in the ranks of ensign, lieutenant (junior grade) and lieutenant. 2650 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - HOUSE March 20 [From the New York Times of March 5, 1952] the Assistant Secretary of Defense for ap enrollment in the Nation's 1,170 schools of nursing dropped from 44,185 in 1950 to 41,667 NURSE RECRUITING GETS TOP PRIORITY-THREE proval. ARMY NEEDS GREATEST in 1951, a loss of 5.7 percent. T HOUSAND SEVEN HUNDRED AND SIXTY-THREE N E EDED BY ARMED FORCES BY JULY, BUT PROS• During World War II when troop strength In addition, it is apparent that stepped-up student recruitment, if possible, can only PECT OF GETTING THEM Is SLIM was stabilized, there were 6.5 nurses for 1,000 provide more nurses when they complete (By Harold Faber) troops in the Army, which has a heavier re quirement for nurses because it has the bulk their schooling in from 3 to 5 years; to meet The Armed Forces need 3,763 more nurses of battle casualty admissions and maintains t he shortage that exists now other steps must before July 1 and getting them has become most of the overseas hospital facilities. and are being taken. the No. 1 priority in all recruiting activities. However, at one time last year, when the While many nursing leaders work on the Despite reports from civilian hospitals all Health Resources Advisory Committee con long-range solution, hospitals and public over the country that nurses are leaving for sidered figures that the Army used indicating health agencies are faced with a deteriorating military service, the Army, Navy, and Air a need for some 5 nurses for 1,000 troops, situation: how to maintain adequate nurs Force do not have enough nurses to meet the committee commented that such a ratio ing service without enough nurses. their requirements and are worried about was not necessarily a permanent minimum Almost everybody has found the same whether they are going to get them. necessity. There are some persons who still practical answer: They hire more practical The actual shortage in numbers, according question the basis of the military figures. nurses, attendants and nurses' aides and use to Department of Defense figures, was 2,249 The present numbers for each 1,000 troops, them under the supervision of a registered at the end of December. However, nurses based on the requirements and how many nurse. In 1946, hospitals throughout the continually leave the service because their nurses are on duty, are as follows: country employed 177,552 auxiliary workers, terms are up or because of pregnancy, and including maids; today they employ 297,310. an additional 1,424 will be needed to fill Nurses Nurses on duty Required This, of course, has resulted in a changing the gaps left in the period ending June 30. pattern of nursing service. In New York If the Armed Forces are that many short, Department of Defense _____ 3. 3 4.6 Army ______3.5 5.3 hospitals, for example, registered nurses per are our men and women in service receiving formed 75 percent of the nursing care 10 adequate nursing care? Navy ------3. 3 4.0 Air Force ______3. 0 4.5 years ago; today they do 30 percent. The Tile heads of the nursing branches and same thing is happening all over. Mrs. Anna Rosenberg, Assistant Secretary of To fill the gap between wh_at is necessary Defense, in charge of manpower and per and what is available, the Department of NEW TREND IN TRAINING sonnel, all agree that adequate nursing serv Defense, like the civilian hospitals, is ex Nursing officials recognize this changing ice is provided at present at the expense of panding its nursing supply by using more pattE!rn and the fact that recruiting mora overworking nurses. nonprofessional nurses. nurses is not going to be easy, if possible at In general throughout the services, nurses The military always has used auxiliary per all. They, therefore, believe that the main work about eight hours a week overtime to sonnel, especially in combat areas and in hope for the future lies in training nurses for m ake up for the shortage. In the Navy, for training for combat, and is proud of the rec supervisory jobs as well as for patient care. example, nurses get a day and a half off every ord of its hospital corpsmen, here and abroad. One advocate of this theory, Miss Marion 2 weeks, except if they are on night duty, The auxiliary program is being stretched now W. Sheahan, director of programs for the when they get a night a week off. by training practical nurses and oth2rs to re National Committee for the Improvement of Mrs. Rosenberg believes that this over lieve nurses of nonprofessional duties. Nursing Services, thinks that the numerical work, if sustained, will sooner or later lead By directive of the Secretary of Defense, shortage of nurses is less important than the to a breakdown of patient care because the military departments also are moving to proper training and use of existing man nurses just won't be able to keep up their ward relieving nurses of what has been their power. work. That is why the Department of De chief bottleneck, clerical housekeeping and Throughout the field of nursing, the word fense has made recruiting nurses its top pro supply duties. "utilization" is being used more and more curement task. "It is necessary that registered nurses in as hospitals conduct studies, aided by engi PROSPECTS NOT BRIGHT the Armed Forces be utilized economically neers in some cases, to find out how many But the prospect of getting more nurses and that the nursing services be operated functions of the nurse can be performed 1s not good, despite the need. This is ad with increased efficiency." the Secretary said safely by others. The number is surprisingly in the directive. "In this way, military per large. mitted frank!~ by almost everyone con cerned. They realize that the military nurse sonnel may continue to receive the best pos At Harper Hospital in Detroit, for example, shortage is a reflection of the national nurse sible nursing care and there will be no need it was found that 42 percent of all treat shortage and they know that even if the less drain of this valuable resource from the ments could be handled by practical nurses training of nurses is stepped up, the results civilian economy." and 30 percent by nurses' aides. A New York cannot help for at least 3 years. Nurses in the Armed Forces Stat e official estimates that from 30 to 50 In addition, the Department of Defense percent of a nurse's time is spent in non finds itself in the peculiar position of com nursing functions. D epart- A" Hospitals everywhere are reassigning non peting with itself for high school graduates. ment of Army Navy Fo~ce It needs more nurses and would like to see D efense nursing activities to non-nurses as a matter young women take 3 years to prepare for ------of necessity, not of theory. But the theory nursing, but it also needs 72,000 young of nursing is changing, too, along with the Total military .qurses on advances in medicine. women for its other activities by July 1. A duty ______------11, 603 5, 536 3, 346 2, 721 young womari who wants to serve may be a Full-time civilian nurses ___ 2, 421 1, 200 408 813 A big part of the work of a nurse today bit confused. Total requfrement. ______16, 273 8, 270 3, 960 4,043 is teaching her patient how to do things for Shortage, D ec. 195L ______2, 249 1, 534 206 509 himself, trying to get him out of bed earlier, The 2.rmed forces calculate their require To replace losses by July 1, ments for nurses on the basis of medical 1952 ____ ------1,424 470 240 514 helping him understand why he is taking a needs, which, in turn, rest on the strength Total shortage ______3, 673 2, 204 446 1, 023 medicine. That takes more time than doing of the Military Establishment. Following is the job herself. a t able of military manpower as of February This tabulation is based on figures. released by the SCHOOL REQUIREMENTS HIGH 4 and what the average strength will be for D epartment of Defense. the fiscal year 1953, barring international It also calls for a bett er-trained nurse, complications: [From the New York Times of March 6, 1952] which is one of the reasons that entrance requirements for nursing schools are so high, Feb. 4 Average, 1953 NURSE CRISIS SPURS HUNT FOR SOLUTION Army ______a girl usually must be in the top half of her 1,570,000 1,552,000 MORE EFFICIENT USE OF PRESENT SUPPLY Is Navy ______high-school graduating class. Some people 790,000 832,000 BEING ATTEMPTED BY MANY HosPITALS Marines ______think, however, that this restriction is too 219,000 237,000 DUTIES SHIFTED TO AIDES-NONNURSING severe. Air Force ______900,000 1,018,000 F'uNCTIONS HALTED-FEDERAL SCHOLARSHIPS One of the big new theorles in nursing edu URGED TO HELP WIN RECRUITS Total ______3,409,000 3,639,000 cation is the 2-year plan for training nurses (By Harold Faber) instead of the accepted 3-year course. Mrs. The nursing needs are based on these fig With the nursing shortage growing more Louis McManus, director of the Department ures, plus the expected patient load (with acute, leaders of the profession are coming of Nursing Education at Teachers College, one nurse allocated for 10 usable beds), staf- to the conclusion that the only practical way believes the short course, if properly or 1ng of combat zone hospitals, outpatient to get more nursing service lies in using the ganized, can produce better nurses and, of nursing service, evacuation jobs for flight present nurse supply more efficiently. course, more, thus helping to relieve the n u rsing and hospital trains, and training and The obvious solution of recruiting and shortage. other overhead functions. training more nurses to meet expanding An experiment in the 2-year plan, started The requirements are estimated quarterly needs is regarded as academic by many nurs 4 years ago at the Metropolitan School of and reviewed by the Health Resources Advi.,; ing officials. They know that, despite the Nurses in Windsor, Ont., will end in Septem sory Committee and the Armed Forces Medi tremendous amount of publicity about the ber, and the available results indicate that cal Policy Council before being submitted to nursing shortage and the need for nurses, it has been successful. A similar plan is 1952 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - HOUSE 2651 being considered for Brooklyn and Queens BIRMINGHAM One hospital opened a nursery adjacent to Colleges here. Many hospitals are working nurses a 12- the hospital in an effort to attrf!,Ct nurses who MEN'S ENROLLMENT UP hour shift instead of the normal 8, with some had married and retired. Ten nurses with All of these considerations bring the nurses performing double-shift duty. Many young children took advantage of the proj problem back to the school of nursing and hospitals are using practical nurses to cover ect and returned to duty. the high-school graduate. Although many situations where trained nurses are needed. Several hospitals experimented briefly with nurses are dubious about increasing the Last year, the Alabama Nurses Associa nurseries for the children of personnel in the over-all recruitment, there are two fields still tion and the Alabama Hospital Association hospital buildings, but abandoned the plan not completely exploited, male nurses and pooled $5,000 and appointed a full-time as unfeasible because of the fear of epidem Negro nurses. nursing recruiter for the State. While many ics of children's diseases. Other hospitals Last year there were only 2,971 Negro stu~ young women were recruited during the year declined to install nurseries because of the dent nurses in the country, a drop from 1950. as nurse trainees, the funds a.re exhausted high cost of operation. In 1949, the last year for which full statistics and the drive has closed. In the current emergency, hospitals have . are available, only 39 young Negro women ·in BOSTON been employing students as nurses' assist 10,000 entered nursing compared with 151 ants. They work split shifts and receive Massachusetts General Hospital has affili extra remuneration. Many interns also are out of 10,000 white girls. Those who have ated with the School of Practical Nursing studied the situation believe it is not the in Boston, giving students from that insti picking up spend.Ing money by w0rking ex result of prejudice in nursing schools, but tution 13 months of bedside training, in the tra hours as nurses. · rather it is poor education facilities in the 15 months that the students are working ENGLEWOOD, N. J. South that do not give Negro girls the prepa for their licenses as practical home nurses. The Englewood Hospital has built up a ration necessary to enter nursing schools. This helps to free professional nurses for team of part-time nurses who can spare a In 1951 there were 1,023 men enrolled in other duty. few hours a day away from their homes. nursing schools, an increase over the previ The hospital also has hired aides, who are During February, the nursing staff, which ous year. The difiiculty in male nursing, of trained in 6 weeks, there being no educa normally is 82 full-time nurses, was 60, but course, lies in prejudice against them, not tional requirement, .for work under super 57 part-time nurses did work equivalent to only in schools, but outside. Some authori visors. These are replacing the volunteers 21 full-time graduates. ties feel that there can be a big field for men of the war years. nurses, especially in psychiatric hospitals, Then, the hospital operates a team plan. LOS ANGELES which are the hardest hit by nurse short The team is headed by a graduate nurse, The nurse shortage has caused a mush ages. who patrols a wing. She is assisted by aides rooming of hit-and-run commercial schools; A third source of more nurses lies in cut- • and practical nurses. The group takes morn which ad\.ertise that for less than $200 tui ting down the drop-out rate of girls already ing temperatures, gets breakfasts, and is tion and in as little as 20 hours' instruction enrolled in schools. That rate is now about given instructions for the day's program. they can turn out practical nurses who can 34 percent, about three times what it is for Student nurses assigned to these teams also earn big money. Such schools actually do medical and dental schools. The main rea get a chance to take care of various kinds not even have nurse-aide training, but they sons, in order, are failure in class work, dis of patients. The graduate nurse, getting give graduates a cap and a pin and turn them like for nursing, and marriage. her instructions from a head nurse, calls the loose. Severa.I such schools are transplanted One of the touchiest subjects in the nurs- signals for the rest of the group. eastern enterprises---0ne of them had taught · ing field ls the place of the practical nurse. air-conditioning and television in Baltimore. CHATTANOOGA Registered nurses feel that most practical NEW YORK nurses . are not adequately trained for their Hospital officials here agree they need a jobs and need much supervision. Practical better recruiting program, but have not Mount Sinai Hospital has instituted a nurses and many doctors believe that there united to do anything about it. So far it's group-nursing program, in which private are many jobs that the nonprofessional every hospital for itself. They say various nurses care for more than one patient. Each nurse can do. nurses' organizations do little, 1f any, re nurse gets paid more than the normal $12 As a matter of fact, the number of prac cruiting. They also agree the shortage here a shift plus mer.ls, each patient gets adequate tical nurses is rising; they are being em is sure to get worse before it improves, and care at less cost, and the hospital can answer ployed more and more, and registered that only an intensified recruiting program more calls for private duty nursing. nurses, no matter how reluctantly they ac will increase the supply, and training will PHILADELPHIA take some time. cept the situation, are finding that practical The Community Nursing Bureau of Metro nurses do have a place in the nursing service. Chattanooga's Kirkman Vocational School is preparing a new course to prepare licensed politan Philadelphia, organized by profes The biggest news in the field of nursing sional and lay people who contributed both education, the Bolton bill, affects practical practical nurses to help spread the registered nurse supply. funds and material, opened in February to nurses as well as registered nurses. The bill register nurses to supply hospitals, physi introduced in the House of Representatives CIDCA GO cians, and the general public. Nurses may last year, provides Federal aid for schools of The Illinois Hospital Association and the register for full-time, part-time, or hourly . registered -and practical nursing and for Blue Cross plan for hospital ca.re now are work. scholarships. It is a long-range program, entering the third year of a joint drive to The careers in nursing committee of tl_le with costs estimated at $47,000,000 a year. increase nursing school enrollment and re Nursing Council of Metropolitan Philadel Its backers are optimistic that more girls duce the student-nurse withdrawal rate. The phia has been conducting a vigorous enlist would enter nursing schools, which in many groups' goal is 3,500 admissions each year ment campaign. It holds career forums in. cases have surprisingly high tuition fees, if. and 2,250 graduations. Cooperating in the various sections to stimulate intere£t in they could get scholarship aid and tt"schools drive are the Illinois State Nursing Associa nursing. Since the program started 4 years could be expanded. tion, the Illinois League of Nursing Educa· ago, schools of nursing and hospita.!.S have NO TALK OF UNIONS tion, and the Illinois Medical Society. held open· house each spring so parents and A feature of the campaign is student prospective trainees could see nurses in Meanwhile, with enrollment dropping, nurses' week proclaimed annually by the with nurses leaving the field because of low action. Governor. Prior to the week's opening spon ·The nursing council also is enccuraging pay, there is no noticeable movement of sors of the drive get their message to the nurses to get together and better conditions the training of pract•cal nurses. The Phil public through the newspapers, television adelphia public-school system has a program except in their professional organizations. and radio, church sermons, hospital-spon The question of unionization rarely comes for training practical nurses, with pupils up even in conversation. sored poster contests in schoo.s, with scholar receiving 3 months of classroom work and ships awarded to winners, hospital equip 9 months in hospitals. Nursing officials, touchy about their "pro ment exhibits in department stores wit h fessional" status, like to talk about "job PITTSBURGH doctors in attendance, open how·~ at hos satisfactions," a phrase that working nurses pitals for high-school girls and teas for them. In this highly industrialized area, workers translate into pay and hours. Also supporting the drive are civic and fra" 1n mills and plants send their daughters to The attitude of many nurses, especially ternity organizations and women's groups. college to become nurses, then can't under the old-time nurses, in resenting any change Meanwhile, the Chicago Council on Com stand why their pay as graduates is less than or delegation of authority is another factor munity Nurses has assumed leadership in that of elevator girls in the city's office build complicating solution of the shortage. Some training practical nurses as one approach to ings. critics have suggested that nurses and some easing the shortage. Working with the There has been no attempt by hospite.I or nursing organizations are more interested board of education and aided by several in maintaining their professional status ganizations to raise pay of nurses or to make grants, the council has training brruiches in careers attractive. The American Federa and prestige than in solving the basic prob two Chicago schools. lems of more nursing care for the Nation. tion of Labor and the Congress of Industrial "All .they do is talk about the shortages," CLEVELAND Organizations, generally have shunned at one working nurse complained.. "Nobody In a desperate attempt to obtain qualified tempts to organize nurses because of State ever does anything." nurses, hospitals have installed a general laws forbidding strikes and collective bar Following are reports from various parts_ 40-hour week, increased wages, and improved gaining in nonprofit public and private in of the country on what is being done: working conditions. stitutions. Leaders of nurses' organizations, 2652 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - HOUSE March 20 preferring to achieve economic goals as pro.. This action was approved by the Secre an air field, then needed many buildings.. fessionals, have given little encouragement to tary of Defense on the 30th of Decem The voluminous files have revealed some union officials. ber 1947. On the 16th of April 1948 quite interesting communications to SAN FRANCISCO the Secretary of Defense and the Chair which I do not wish now to refer. Steps are being taken on several fronts to man of the NACA jointly recommended ·I find from the files, which I have cope with the shortage. Miss Kathryn to the Bureau of the Budget a· draft of stud·ed carefully, that the William Smith, instructor in pediatric nursing at the the proposed legislation authorizing the University of California School of Nursing Northern Field cost the United States and acting chairman of the Student Nurse unitary wind-tunnel plan. Government $5,477,175. All of these Recruitment Committee of California, said On the 28th of April 1948 the RDB improvements were sold for $15,745. that a program to that end had been put Committee on Aeronautics approved Now the Government is renting at many under way about a year and a half ago, with Camp Forest, Tenn., as a site for AEDC thousands of dollars per year only a part two employed directors. and recommended prompt init:l.at·on of of the buildings all of which were sold These directors do field work, with em.. construct·on. On the 13th of May 1948, for $15,000. phasis on meeting with counselors in jun.. at its thirteenth meeting, the RDB it The sale of the William Northern ior high schools, high schools and junior col.. self f orma ly approvej the establishment Field occurred on August 5, 1948, when leges. They speak at · ~ career-day" student of an AEOC and also approved the above assemblies and try to interest students in its sale was formally approved by the nursing. actinn of the Comm·ttee on Aeronautics. War Assets Administrat:on. You will Just getting under way is a new project, On the 17th of May 1948 Dr. Vannevar note, Mr. Speaker, that this was over patterned after one that has been successful Bush, Chairman of the RDB, submitted '3 months after the Research Develop in Michigan. This is the formation of fu the RD3 approval of May 13, 1948, to ment Board selected Camp Forrest, ture nurse clubs for high,..school girls, with the Secretary of Defense. The Secre Tenn., as the site for the AEDC. It was the club members taking field trips to hos tary gave his approval in a memoran pitals and other nursing centers. more than 2 % months after the Secre dum dated the 22d of May 1948. tary of Air gave it his formal approval. SEA'ITLE The AED0 was formally presented to It is not a very pretty picture. We The legislature has passed a law providing the Con.gress in a bill in May 1948. The are going to give all of these facts and for licensing of practical nurses with only Eightieth Congress adjourned in August 450 hours of special schooling and 5 months 1948, before hearings were completed. others very, very careful study. I · do of on-the-job training. The University of On October 19, 1949, the Congress passed • not know that there is anything we can Washington School of Nursing plans to the measure and the President signed do about it. It may be that the horse is announce soon a working agreement with already out of the barn, but it is impor the Virginia Mason Hospital, Seattle, to con the bill into law. tant that the people have the facts. duct a training program tied in with nurs On the 9th of November 1949, with ing-school work, similar to a program al the approval of the President, the Sec ready in effect at the Kings County Hospital. retary of Defense anj the RDB, the Sec The SPEAKER. Under previous order Hospitals here are using more practical retary of the Air Force formally an nurses and nurses• aides than ever before. of the House, the gentleman from Mich nounced the selection of Camp Forest, igan [Mr. HOFFMAN] is recognized for Practical nurses are assigned by the profes Tenn., as the cite on which AEDC would sional nurses' registry, both for duty in 15 minutes. private homes and hospital duty under su be built. pervision. Thereafter developments came fast. COMMENDING THE INTERNATIONAL EX The Kings County Nurses Association I will not take the time of the House ECUTIVE BOARD OF THE UAW-CIO FOR voted recently against use of practical nurses at this late hour to discuss in detail ITS PURGE OF COMMUNISTS on private duty in hospitals. It was believed these developments. For one thing that enough responsibility had been dele many of us undertook to obtain the proj Mr. HOFFMAN of Michigan. Mr. Speaker, Marc]l 15, 1952, the adminis gated to practical nurses already. ect for our home S~ates . It appea::::; now that those in the know must have en trative board of the International UAW .. joyed the show-quite a ''rhubarb.'' CIO took over management of Ford The SPEAKER. Under previous order Suffice it to say that after it was under Local 600, which has more than 40,000 dues-paying members, and fired 5 of its of the House, the gentleman from Ten way the Air Force faced a dec~s·on on nessee [Mr. GORE] is recognized for 10 how to operate the AEDC. The Re officers. They were fired, said the board, minutes. search Development Board recommend because they had used the local "to ad ed that a nonprofit corporation be set vance the interests of the Communist HISTORY OF ARNOLD ENGINEERING DE up to operate the AEDC. Overru_ing Party at the expense of the Ford work VELOPMENT CENTER the recommendation of the Research ers." This action immediately followed Mr. GORE. Mr. Speaker, all of the Cevelopment Board, the Gecretary of the exposure of the Communist mem facts and dates which I will now cite the Air Force approved a procedure by bership of these officials by a congres come from official papers furnished me which a profit corporation wou d be cre sional subcommittee. by the Air Force and by the General ated. This profit corporation was cre It is a pleasure to join my d·stin Services Administrati:m. It has to do ated by a Missouri corporation called guished colleague, the gentleman from with the development of the great Sverdrup & Parcel. 'I".c.e corporation Pennsylvania [Mr. WALTER], who, on AEDC facility at Tullahoma, Tenn., and was known as ARO, Inc., to which I re the 17th, complimented-and I quote: the sale of an air field and improvements f erred yesterday. That great leader and labor statesman, at the same site. Its original conception Mr. Speaker, I ack unanimous con Walter Reuther, for the courageous action by the Air Forca dates back to 1944 and sent to insert in the RECORD at this point he took i:n attempting to rid local 600 of the 1945. One of the first indications of the contracts which Sverdrup & Parcel Communist influence which unquestionably USAF facility needs occurred back in have had and now h ewe with the A·r dominated that union. August 1944 at Wright Field. In O~to Force, all for design, plans, studies, and Mr. Reuther and those who acted with ber of 1945 a formal committee was es so forth. him in this purge of the Reds have been tablished and chargea with the prepara The SPEAKER. Is there objection to highly praised for their action. tion of plans for an air engineering the request of the gentleman from Ten For years the CIO News. the Daily development center. In April of 1946 a nessee? Worker, left-wing radio announcers, col meeting of the NACA Executive Com There was no objection. umnists, and some editors have falsely mittee was he d and from this meeting Mr. GORE. They are as follows : characterized my legislative activities as a panel was formed known as the Ray $3,235,814, $6,069,220, $165,000, $1,060, .. being antilabor and Red-baiting. So mond panel to study the national re 000. now, when the tide has turned, it seems quirements of t ansonic ana supersonic Now, Mr. Speaker, I asked the General proper to note the fact that 14 years and wind tunnels. Services Aclministration to bring to my 9 months ago, from the well cf the House, On December 19, 1947, the Research comm·t-:;ee the complete files on the sale I condemned and named Communists and Development Board, hereafter re of the W' iam Northern Air Field and and others who were attempting to take ferred to as the RDB, at its tenth meet improvement at Tullahoma, Tenn. This over labor organizations. ing, approved the establishment of an . is important because after AEDC was In J anuary of 1924, a Senate docu... air engineer and development center. located there the Air Force then needed ment, compiled under John L. Lewis' 1952 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - HOUSE 2653 · supervision, entitled "Attempt by Com For the last 9 years, on the wall of my CIO, in the sit-down strikes, was using munists To Seize American Labor Move office in Washington, have hung six pho Communists and their methods? ment," named and described a designat tographs showing five CIO pickets, two Just why, while our men are being shot ed group as "fakers, repudiated leaders, of them Communists, beating a defense and killed in Korea in their effort to con traitors to the unions, opportunists, and less worker. At that time, Lee Pressman, tain communism, those safe here in purveyors of every falsehood, slander, a·n admitted Communist, was general America should be praised for throwing and deception." counsel of the CIO and presumably di-_ Communists out of a position where they In 1928, Lewis' Mine Journal said the rected its activities. group "was doing its dirtiest to capture Can it be said th~t Walter Reuther, an "rehabilitation of Russia." He was active on the United Mine Workers and transform intelligent man, who had worked in Rus the I. W.W. defense committee and an hon this splendid union into a Communist sia, was ignorant of the fact that the orary president of the mtra Red National organization." Religion and Labor Foundation. Lewis knew all that when he left the Other groups were likewfae designated as David Dubinsky, president of the Interna AFL, fathered the CIO and later, in 1937, having the same objective, looking toward tional Ladies' Garment Workers Unicn under the protection of Gov. Prank Mur the same end, and, quoting again: which made campaign contributions in 1936 "They are fused into united effort, giving of $61,385.85 to the American Labor Party, phy, used the communists to -call and Labor's Nonpartisan League, and the Minne carry on the sit-down strikes in Michi mutual support to each other in their numer ous activities." sota Farmer-Labor Party-was the man who gan. Through this interlocking arrangement- undertook to raise $100,000 from the Ameri During those strikes, the CIO-and quoting again : . can radical unionists for the support of the \Valter Reuther was then a member "These Communist groups interlock also Communist "red" front in Spain. and its Communist allies deliberately with the Communist International and the Clinton S. Golden was for several years followed a planned program of seizing Red Trade Labor Union International at Mos business manager and field director of Brook factories, destroying personal property, cow, so that the revolutionary movement in wood Labor College at Katonah, N. Y., a beating individuals, defying peace offic America is the direct offspring and agency of school for labor students, prospective organ the Communist regime in Russia, for i;he izers, and strike leaders. He was a member ers, disregarding the law, ignoring court purpose of seizing and possessing themselves of the board of counselors of Commonwealth orders and the rules of common decency. of the American continent through the me College at Mena, Ark., where, according to a President Roosevelt had warned: dium of revolution, inspired and conducted legislative inquiry in 1935, free love pract:ices If communism breaks in America, it will from the- stronghold of bolshevism on the prevailed and communism and atheism were be in the Detroit area where it will_first man other side of the Atlantic." taught. ifest itself. Today these same groups, with like inspi~ While Golden and Hillman were d'rectors ration, acting together, are behind, and act of the Garland fund, money was allocated And Governor Murphy said: ing with the CIO in its present war on indus from that fund to the Ferrier group, whose Communism is not coming, it is here. try and the American Federation of Labor. publication then stated: Lewis then named Earl Browder as Foster's "We are anarchists because we see in the On the first day of June 1937, it was - right-hand man. Browder, one time general State an enemy of liberty and huma~ prog my privilege to call the attention of the secretary of the Communist Party, its candi ress; and we are Communists because we House, not only to the unlawful activities date for President in 1936, then so roundly conceive communism as the most rational of the CIO under Lewis, who had Reu condemned by Lewis, today is an ardent sup and just economic theory yet propased. ther's assistance, but to name some Com porter of the CIO and its methods. • • • As anarchists, we seek the abal'tion Powers Hapgood, John Brophy, and Adolph of the State." munists and left-wingers- more than _ Germer, all in that movement, were later This group then said: in 40 all-who either were furthering or described by Lewis as: "The all-important thing is that industry had prepared the ground for the sit "Fakirs, repudiated leaders, traitors to the be controlled at the point of production." down strikes-Communist infiltration unions, opportunists, and purveyors of every Which is what t h e CIO accomplished at into labor unions.1 falsehood, slander, and deception.•• Flint, Detroit, and other places. Brophy and Hapgood were described as Other CIO organizers, and ardent sup agents of the Communists and one of them 1 Let me call the roll, in part at least, of porters who have been listed as Communists, those whp, in 1922 and 1924, according to the at least, Lewis intimated, was paid direct· can be named. Among them are: report prepared by the United Mine Workers from Moscow. Alfredo Abilio, a member of the Communist of America, of which Mr. Lewis was president, Lewis' United Mine Workers Journal, on Party at South Chicago and a pe.id Steel brought "imported revolution" to and stood May 1, 1928, made the statement that the Workers' Organizing Committee organizer "'knocking at the door of the United Mine leadership_ of Brophy, Patrick Toohey, and among Mexicans in that section. Hapgood and a few others had been- Workers and of the American people," and John W. Anderson, a CIO organizer, who who sought "the overthrow and destruction "Doing its dirtiest to capture the United Mine Workers and to transform this splendid was the Communist candidate for Governor of this Government," and give you his de of Michigan in 1934. scription of those men and their activities. union into a Communist organization." Powers Hapgood is now field representative Merlin D. Bishop,· graduate and former One of the principal organizations named member of the staff of the Brookwood La _or as engaged in the attempt to overthrow and for the CIO. John Brophy, then characterized as a College, and who- is on the payroll -as "edu destroy the labor organizations and our Gov cational director" for the CIO. ernment was the Communist Party of Amer traitor to the unions, the purveyor of every falsehood, slander, and dE;ception, is now Peter Chapa, who for years was a Com-. ica. Of that organization it was said-I munist organizer, is now a full-time organ quote: directed to supervise the administration of the CIO. izer for the Steel Workers' Organizing Com "It is purely a revolutionary organization m ittee at Gary. and makes no pretense at legality. • • • Adolph Germer, as stated, was roundly de nounced by Lewis in 1930. For years he was Ruth Chapa, wife of Peter Chapa, who is This party has at its head the supreme execu paid by the Steel Workers' Organizing Com tive revolutionary committee in America, re a Socialist agitator. Today he is an organizer mittee, .the S. W. 0. C., to do missionary work sponsible only to • • • officials of the for CIO, his work second only to that of Hap Communist International. good and Brophy. in the homes of Spanish steel workers. "On the surface and working partly in the Patrick Toohey, a leader in the movement Joe Cook, a member of the Communist open is another revolutionary organization, which was "doi.ag its dirtiest to capture the Party, and who is a part-time organizer for known as the Workers Party of Amer United Mine ·workers and 'to transform" it the S. W. O. C. 'in South Chicago. ica. • • •"- "into a Communist organization" and who is Margaret Cowl, Communist writer and agi With a mission- now in charge of Communist activities in tator, who is on the CIO payroll and was "fundamentally the same as that of the Philadelphia, is the man who saved the day active in promoting the women's activit ies in Communist Party of America, 1. e., to over for the CIO in the RCA strike in Camden, the strike at Flint, Mich. throw the Government of the United States." N.J. Dave Doran, Pittsburgh district organizer Continuing to quote: Sidney Hillman, one of the original seven for the Young Communist League, who is on "Joined with these two revolutionary who formed the CIO, president of the Amal the S. W. O. C. payroll and who is a close parties • • • is the Trade Union Edu ca gamated Clothing Workers of America associate of William Z. Foster, and confers tional League, headed by William Z. Fast.er. which made 1936 campaign contributions of fre:iuently with Philip Murray, director of • • • Thie league is • • • the direct $82,281.89, principally to Labor's Nonpartisan CIO's steel organization drive. instrumentality ·• • • of the Commu League and the American Labor Party, and James W. Ford, colored, Communist candi nist International." including $4,350 to the Minnesota Farmer date for Vice President in 1936. He attended Then was named the "American Civil Lib· Labor Party-is one of those who in 1922 a conference of Negro leaders, called by Philip erties Union" at New York as another of the organized the Russian-American Industrial Murray at Pittsburgh on February 8. ' groups engaged in the then effort to over Corporation to raise a millio"n dollars among William K. Gebert, associate of William Z. throw American Government. the workers of America to bring about the Foster and member of the central committee 2654 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - HOUSE March 20. might lessen production for defense, is a as do the Communists, to overthrow this and Government, which give them power little difficult to understand. Government by force, who contend that or opportunity to spread communism. But let us not be critical. Converts "there is no God," that "ministers and Unfortunately a walk-out or wildcat are always welcome. St. Luke wrote: priests are hypocrites," that "religion is strike in the plant of the Benton Harbor That likewise joy shall be in heaven over a fraud," may be exposed, removed from Malleable Industries at Benton Harbor. one sinner that repenteth, more than over all positions, both in labor organizations Mich., may sericusly hinder production nine';y and nine just persons, which need no in a plant which has secondary contracts repentance. _ are graduates ·of the Communist Brookwood for defense production. It may also af Labor College at Katonah, N. Y., a training So, again, even if we assume that Wal· ford another opportun·ty for Mr. Reu. school for black and white agitators. ther to learn whether those responsible ter Reuther and his associates did know Eleanor Rye, colored, an organizer for the the CJ:O has been harboring Communists, National. Negro Congress, a Communist or let us all commend them for now kick ganization, and on the private payroll of Van shown no change of thought or of method, A. Bittner, Chicago regional director of the are now all united with him in this CIO ing Communists out of Local 600. Let us drive against industry and the American Fed all express the hope that those who seek, CIO. John Schmies, former assistant to Will!am eration of Labor, and the statement of Wil· Z. Foster and one-time organizer of the Auto liam Z. Foster that-- of the Community Party, is now a CIO org~i:i- Workers' Union, a Communist organization, "The CIO organizers of today have· a great lzer, end confers frequently with Ph1llp which was active until a few years ago. He advantage • • • in the fact that today Murray. . is the Detroit representative of the fraternal there is in existence a strong Communist Paul Gaser, ettorney for the section com orcfers committee, organized by the CIO to Party to lend its active assistance"- m ittee of the Communist Party, is a full line up fraternal organizations. does not prove that the present move is saleried inember of the S. W. 0. C. staff. Tom Shane, member of the Ccmmunist Doyle Glormer, reporter for the Communist communistic, let us compare the methods Party and a full-time C 0 organizer on the which they recommend and those which the People'~ Press, is on the payroll of the steel workers• payroll in Pittsburgh. CIO is using. s.w.o.c. Tucker P. Smith, president-director of If the guiding, controlling actors be Com Jess Gonzeles, Mexican, member of the Brookwood College, who writes for the auto Communist Party and a fu!l-time sa.aried munists; if their methods be those of Com workers' CIO organ and who assisted the CIO munists; if their purpose be control and regi man on the s. W. 0. C. in Pittsburgh. in founding a training school at Saugatuck, Francis J . Gorman, president of the United mentation of labor and of industry; and if Mich., last summer, for the training of agi those who follow their banner gain, iv the Textile Workers, just recently became a me~ tators for the sit-down strikes. end, no material advantage, the movement is ber of the advisory boa d of communistic J ack Stachel, member of the central com Commonwealth College et Mena, Ark. wholly dangerous and unworthy of support. m ittae of the Communist Party, who is a William Z. Foster, America's Communist Hansen, ~ first name unknown, member of director of CIO payroll organizers in Penn No. 1, national chairman of the Communist the Communist Perty a.t Chicago Heights and sylvania and who wrote the foreword to one a ·full-time crga!lizer for the S. W. 0. C. Party in America, outlined the plan and de• cf Foster's propaganda pamphlets distributed scribed the methods of procedure for union Charles Henry, member of the Communist by CIO organizers. P arty end part-time organizer for the S. W. izing steel, the methods which have been Maurice Sugar, radical lawyer, who was the followed in the CIO drive and strikes. O. C. in South Ch icago. Communist candidate for the omce of re First, Foster recommended that supporting Mary Hillyer, leader in the left-wing League corder's judge in the city of' Detroit in 1936, f or Industrial Democrz..cy, who has been as committees be formed among fraternal or and who is on the payroll of the CIO. ganizations. Within a month Philip Murray Eistin g Comrade Margaret Cowl, who was Mary Heaton Vorse, well-known Commu active in p:romotin g women's activities in the and three full-fledged Communists spoke at nist author, who has been directing the a fraternal orders' conference in Pittsburgh. Flint, Mich., strike. organization of CIO women's auxiliaries. Clar""nce Irwin, district organizer for the Lewis sent his blessings, and a fraternal William Weinstone, secretary of the Michi orders' committee was formed, with Bill K. Communist Party and on the S. W. 0. C. pay gan district of the Communist Party, who has roll in Pittsburgh. . Gebert, recently district organizer for the been directing Communist activities in the Communist Party in Chicago, as its national Genora Johnson, member of the Socialist F_int and Detroit strikes, and who is the Party and leader of the women's brigade at chairman. This organization took an ·active author of the pamphlet, The Great Sit-Down part in the Detroit strike. Flint. Etrike. Leo Krzycki, vice president of the Amal Second. Foster suggested tha.t support In addition to the long list of Communists should be extended to the building up of the gamated Clothing Workers, a member of the and supporters, whose names I have recited national executive committee of the Socialist Workers' Alliance. As everyone knows, the as being moving spirits in the Committee for Workers' Alliance, as now constituted, is a P arty, and a member of the advisory board Industrial Organization, we have numbered, of the CIO. combination of three "red" organizations, among those giving it active or tacit aid, the and not long ago, when a State-wide meeting Louis Majors,· member of the Communist National Labor Relations Board; the Secre Party, and on the payroll of the S. W. O. C. of that organization was held at Harrisburg, tary of Labor, Madam Perkins; the Governor Pa., Clinton Golden, the CIO regional di In Pittsburgh. of the State of Michigan, Frank Murphy; the Homer S. Martin, former Baptist minister, rector, thanked the alliance for the support President of the United States. it had given and pledged the support of the who has been a left-wing orator for years, Small wonder then that, with the hope of ls president of the Uni.ted Automobile w:ork CIO to the all!ance. higher wages, with its preaching of class Third. Foster suggested that prominent ers and Lewis' r ght-hand man in Michigan. hatred so often and so effectively used by the Leonides McDonald, Negro, Communist speakers of the National Negro Congress, President himself, and by the use of force, organized by Communists, should be brought leader, on the payroll of the S. W. 0. C. at which so far has proven to be irresistible, the Indiana Harbor. into the steel d istricts. In February Philip CIO is enlisting and drafting into its army Murray met in conference with James W. Mike Ostroski, member of the Communist the workmen of the Nation. Party, and on the payroll of the S. W. 0. C. Ford, ranking Negro Communist, candidate As Lewis in 1924 charged many of these for Vice President on that ticket; John P. In Gary. men with being Communists, bent upon the Blain Owen, alias Boris Israel, and whose Davis, of the National Negro Congress; and destruction of the American Federation of Thyra Edwerds, not long returned from so real name is Isreal Brestein, and who for Labor, and of the Government, so today he merly represented Amtorg, the Soviet trading viet Russia. is, by the American Federation of Labor, Fourth. "The women relatives of the steel agency on the Pacific, at present is working characterized as a Communist, described as with William K. Gebert in the Pittsburgh workers are a vital factor in the steel indus being "in bed with Communists" and try," said Foster, and d'rected that they "be district. charged with an attempt to destroy the George A. Patterson, member of the Com organized into ladies' auxiliaries." The CIO American Federation of Labor and our demo immediately adopted the idea. munist Party, and on the payroll of the cratic form of government. S. W. 0. C. in South Chicago. On the payroll of the CIO, into Flint went Working with these men, through them, Margaret Cowl, leading Communist organizer Rose Pesotta, veteran anarchist leader, who using their organizations and their methods, and writer. There the women's auxiliaries, was an intimate of Emma Goldman, is an he cannot now escape responsibility for their with their red arm bands and red berets, active CIO organizer in the rubber and auto acts or the result of his own actions. under Mary HHlyer, leader in the League for mobile industries. His present purpose is the same as that Industrial Democracy, and Mary Heaton George Powers, alias Morris Powers, former which he attributed to the organizers of the Vorse, Communist authcr, marched in the district organizer of the Communist Party industrial union when, in 1924, he said their streets assisting the pickets and the sit in South Carolina, is now a district director purpose was: downers in the factories. of the S. W. O. C. of the CIO in Pittsburgh, "The overthrow and destruction of this at a large salary. May 26, at Detroit, these women's auxil Government, with the establishment of an iaries marched on the Ford plants in Dear Lee Pressman, radical lawyer, CIO's general absolute and arbitrary dictatorship, and the born. counsel. elimination of all forms of popular voice in Fifth. The sit-down strikes no more than Walter Reuther, Victor Reuther, Roy Reu governmental affairs." began when Foster issued further recom ther, long-time agitators for left-wing causes If the fact that those who, in 1924, were mendations dealing with anticipated strike and now CIO organizers. Victor and Walter described by Lewis as Communists, having problems. These were distributed through 1952 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - HOUSE 2655 for the strike are following the Commu ing 30 tons of molten metal unpoured. EXTENSION OF REMARKS nist line as he found the officials of local Fortunately volunteers assisted the com By unanimous consent, permission to 600 were doing at Detroit. pany officials and clerical force to pour extend remarks in the Appendix of the Permit a brief statement of what hap the hot metal and avoid damage to the RECORD, or to revise and extend remarks, pened this morning. equipment which might easily have was granted to: Benton Malleable Industries about 3 amounted to a quarter of a million Messrs. HERLONG, BATTLE, and BURN weeks ago entered into a contract with dollars. SIDE. local 880 of the UA W-CIO. William N. And what was it all about? Well, a Gaines is president of the local. Walter week ago last Satµrday, that would be Mr. STIGLER and to include an article P. Reuther is president of UAW-CIO, March 8, a truck driver was not working. from a Washington paper. which approved of the contract. The The company was trying to make im Mr. WITHROW and to include a state contract was satisfactory to both the provements to the plant to enable it to ment by President Thomas of the Postal union and the company. It was ap handle prime defense orders. Improve Transport Association. proved by the international. ments which would create additional Mr. O'NEILL and to include two arti There has been no complaint as to jobs, make. available a greater pay roll, cles. wages, hours, or working conditions since all of course benefiting the families of Mr. HOPE and to include extraneous the contract was signed. the workers, the merchants of the city. matter. There was, a few days ago, some dif The company wanted to haul in some Mr. BRAMBLETT in two instances and ference of opinion as to the exact pro I-beams with one of the small trucks to include two articles from the Ventura cedure to be followed if and when so used to haul things around in the plant. Star-Free Press. called grievance complaints were to be But the pavement was . wet, someone Mr. JACKSON of California and to in adjusted. thought the small equipment was not clude two news releases. Earlier today, when an attempt was large enough, so the truck which the Mr. REES of Kansas and to include a being made to settle this question as to driver who was not working usually drove newspaper article. a grievance complaint, without any was used. It was driven to haul the Mrs. ROGERS of Massachusetts and to warning the men walked out. I-beams for about 20 minutes. So the include a letter and a table from ·the They gave no notice of an intention to union officials demanded that the driver American Legion relating to cuts in con strike, no strike notice. Urider the lead who did not work on Saturday, the 8th of tact representation in Veterans' Admin ership of the local's president, William N. March, be paid. Just how much I do not istration offices. Gaines, and Augusta Harper, the men know. When the company refused the Mr. DORN and to include an article. just walked out. They walked out leav- men went out. And the plant is down. Mr. FrsHER and to include in the re The men are out of their jobs, which are marks he made in the Committee of the Communist and CIO channels. One of these waiting. Ordinarily the company em Whole extraneous matter. recommendations was this: ploys around 600 men, recently perhaps Mr. KEOGH and to include an editorial "Prominent liberals, and others should be 300 . more. Ordinarily the weekly pay brought into the strike areas. A national which ai:peared in the New York Herald citizens' committee, comprising such liberal roll would be around $5,000 a week, Tribune of March 15. strike sympathizers, including educators, $1,000 a day. You see what a day's idle Mr. SIEMINSKI and to include extrane.:.. writers, artists, etc., should be set up." ness means to someone. ous matter. Within a . few days from New York into Some, perhaps a dozen, of the men live Mr. ADDONIZIO and to include an Flint and Detroit went the American Civil at Covert. One Augusta Harper, a mem article. Liberties Union, and a national citizens' com ber of the committee, was active in the mittee to support the strikers was formed. Mr. RODINO
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