U.S. EMPLOYMENT BILL

Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24797, 11 February 1946, Page 5

U.S. EMPLOYMENT BILL

ECONOMIC COUNCIL PLAN PROMOTION OF FREE ENTERPRISE (Rec. 10.30 p.m.) WASHINGTON, Feb. 9 The Senate passed and sent to Mr Truman an Employment Production Bill greatly different from the full employment measure recommended by the President. The new bill is a compromise between the measures introduced in the Senate and the House of Representatives. Senator A. W. Barkley, the Democratic leader, told the Senate the word “full” had been deleted from the references to employment because it carried an implied guarantee that the Government would step in and provide jobs for all unemployed. Senator Barkley said the bill provided for an economic council of three members to assist the President in the preparation of a periodical economic report to Congress containing recommendations “for creating and maintaining in a manner calculated to foster and promote free competitive enterprise and general welfare conditions under which there will be afforded useful employment opportunities, including self-employment for those able and willing seeking to work, and to promote maximum employment, production and purchasing power.”