Murray Urges Gov't Action To Ensure Employment : NEW YORK—‘Tf private enterprise fails to give work- ers jobs at good wages, turning out things we all need, the people will recognize the failure of private capitalism and vig- orously call for government operation,’’ Murray this week told the Sen- ate Banking Committee which is considering full employment iegislation: Although he found Some faults with the Wagner- Murray full employment bill now under discussion, Murray declar- ed that its passage now would lead to the recognition that Con- gress “was trying to help us all Bass over this bridge to tomor- row.” ; Failure to pass it, however, he said, “‘will bring stronger ques- tions from the people.” Murray added that it was a disgrace that the measure “and a_ score of similar imperative measures were not enacted a year ago. Some very important people were asleep at Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941; there is even greater condemnation for having. been asleep at this second, economic Pearl Harbor.” He sharply criticized Con- gress for failure te enact laws fer unemployment compensa- tion -and transportation for war workers, for gutting the proposal for broad public works planning, for forgiving excess profits and assuring profit security to corporate interests while ignoring the needs of the workers. “I main- tion these matters of neglect and discrimination,” he con- tinued, “to show that certain people in and out of Congress are epposed to purchasing power for workers.” He said that he found in some finan- Highest Prices Paid for DIAMONDS, OLD GOLD, Other Valuable Jewellery STAR LOAN CO. Lid. Est. 1905 719 Robson St. MAr. 2622 CIO president Philip cial organs and “some daily newspapers” an “undertone of satisfaction that there will be masses of unemployed people again.” x The CIO president charged that business “wants a large Profit for taking risk and also wants a guaranteed profit — assured by taxpayers—for not taking risk.” He asked that an end be put to, business thinking that production be held to that fraction of capacity which pays the highest profits at the lowest level of operation. “We know we can abundantly produce,” he stated. “We have done it for war. This bill will be a first step to provide assurance that we ean do it for peace.” : CANNOT TAKE CHANCES Insisting that “private enter- prise really do its. stuff” and provide “vast new markets and goods,” Murray again warned: “All I am saying is that we can- not stand aside helpless to see whether private enterprise is go- ing to lift the millstone of un- employment that has fallen on us. We can’t take that chance MURRAY PHILIP again.” Dealing with labor’s right to produce at high wages, the CIO president declared: “TI insist that every citizen has a right to a job at a high in- come, commensurate with work performed. I insist that it is the responsibility of the national government to assure that right. I insist that all the resources of the government should be ap- plied to make it effective. We must use what it takes to pre- vent the catastrophe of mass un- employment just as we used our resources in cooperative endeav- or to prevent the catastrophe of fascism from overwhelming our world.” bP ACIFIC \eeieienensniieneneneieiescce eee ee NORTH STAR AND BRANDS - B.C. OWNED AND OPERATED PACIFIC MEATS ‘8950 Shaughnessy Meet Your Friends at the ~o-* 5s Pender Auditorium ¢ (Boilermakers) : nS SECCRERSRSUREDEOBECDROSEEEEESCRODSCCEARE SELLS UOC RUSE SERED DOESEEZED F. 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