United Automobile Worker

WHILE ROME BURNS

The bottleneck holding up emergency unemployment compensation is Rep. Robert L. Doughton, Democrat, of North Carolina. He is chairman of the powerful Ways and Means Committee, and has been too busy providing tax relief for corporations to meet the President's request for extending unemployment insurance.

In an interview with CIO legislative representatives, Doughton expressed ideas on social security appropriate to about the year 1890. A typical sample: "What those Detroit workers need is a job back in North Carolina where they'll work hard for reasonable wages instead of the fancy wages they are now getting!"

Anyone familiar with the sweated conditions in North Carolina textile manufacturing, lumbering, and agriculture will think up several other words, not necessarily printable, to substitute for Doughton's word "reasonable."

If Doughton doesn't move in a few days there will be a bill introduced by someone. Whether Doughton introduces it or not, we can be confident that he will resist holding hearings and really getting action started. Therefore it's up to you back home to bombard your Congressman with letters demanding this emergency action.

Write your own Congressman, write Doughton, and write the other Ways and Means Committee members to follow this thing through. Ways and Means Committee members from strong labor districts are: Democrats John Dingell, Michigan; Walter Lynch, N. Y.; Aime J. Forand, R. I.; Thad F. Wasielewski, Wis.; Herman P. Eberharter, Pa.; Cecil King, Calif.; Republicans Daniel Reed, N. Y.; Roy Woodruff, Mich.; Robert Kean, N. J.