BURDENS OF WAR
PREPARING FOR NEXT AMERICAN COMMISSION SITTINGS BEGIN Press Association. —Copyright (Reed. 10.55 a.m.) WASHINGTON, March 5. A commission composed of members of the Cabinet, Senate and House met to-day to work out apian for equalising the burdens of the next war. Secretary Hurley, chairman of the committee created by Congress, announced the one purpose would be to develop policies by which the economic burdens of the war will fall with equal weight on every element of citizenship. He said the commission would seek reasons why, in the Government's efforts to supply needs in all past wars, oportunity had been- presented to some individuals to reap extraordinary profits, while others have been called upon to bear more than their proportionate share of the burdens. He said the commission was forbidden under its authorising resolution from considering conscription of labour.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume I, Issue 74, 6 March 1931, Page 5
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