12 The Newt-Review, Roieburg, Ore. Mon., June 27, 19491 Minimum Wagt Boost To
75 Cts. An Hour Favored
WASHINGTON, June 27. (JP)
The Senate Labor Committee
Thursday unanimously approved
legislation to increase tne pres
ent 40-cpnt-an-hour minimum
wa?e to 75 cents.
The Committee abandoned the
idea of broadening coverage of
tne wane-Hour law on a nig scale,
and voted instead to bring about
only 100,000 additional workers
under me statute, senator reppci
ID-Flal said.
"I thinl; we have a mil now
which we can get through both
the senate and tne House, ' rep
per said.
The House Labor Committee
has annroved a bill which would
hike the minimum wage to 75
cents an hour and also broaden
the coverage considerably.
Government Reorganization
Plans Promise To Slumber
In Congress For Many Years
By JAMES MARLOW
WASHINGTON, June 25. UP) Streamlining the government
would be easy to explain, and understand, If the job could all be
done at one crack by the President or Congress.
It doesn't work like that. It's a kind of step by step job, taking
a lot of time, stabbing In many directions although now an effort
is being made to follow a general plan.
Just as the government itself I
has been pieced and patched to
gether over its wnoie nistory,
so the job of trying to stream
line it a bit must be done in
pieces.
The general overhaul plan was
outlined by the 12man, special
commission created by Congress
ana neaaea ny aormer i-rehiuum
Hoover. Putting .he plan Into
action is up to President Tru
man and Congress.
Mr. Truman and Congress have
both started work on it. So far
the Hoover Plan is being follow
ed in a general sort of way, al
though not in every suggested
detail.
In May, Congress passed an
act to reorganize the State De
partment. The Department now
is going through its reorganiza
tion. The main idea, of course,
Is to get more work out of it
more efficiently.
For example, the plan gives
Secretary of State Acheson 10
assistant secretaries, instead of
the six he has had. This is in
tended to lighten the load on
him. And work of the Depart
ment is being re-arranged.
Unification Slumbers
And Congress is considering a
bill now to furlher unify the
armed services. The Senale has
passed It, but there's no assur-j
ance the House will. So nothing
may come of this one this year.
This bill would give Secretary
of Defense Johnson almost com
plete control over the three
branches of the aimed forces
Army, Navy and Air Force.
r'nncri-psR in 1947 nnspH Imw
imlfvlriCT tho ArmnH sni-iriae tint '
that law allows the secretaries
of the Army. Navy and Air Force i
to go directly to the President j
over tne bead 01 tneir Immediate
boss, the Secretary of Defense,
The present unification bill
would end that. So, Congress has
to decide whether It will do a
tighter job of unification than
It did In 1947.
The freedom of those three
secretaries to go over the de
fense secretary's head was one !
of the major problems of James I
V. Forrestal, who jumped to his
death from the Navy Hospital
after resigning the job In the
spring. He backed the bill now
in Congress.
Last Monday, Mr. Truman of
fered seven reorganization plans
to Congress. If the lawmakers do
not object, he can go through
with them.
(Much of the reorganization
Job can be done by simple presi
dential order without any law
making by Congress provided
Congress does not object.)
May Drag For Years
This is the seventh plan, In
outline: He wants formally to
make the National Security Coun
cil and the National Security Re
sources Board part of the "office
of the President."
When those two bureaus were
created In 1947, no one said where
they belonged. Actually, they've
been considered part of the Presi
dent's office ever since. Mr. Tru
man's plan would make It fact,
officially.
The Security Council is made
up of the secretaries of Slate,
Defense, Army, Navy, Air Force,
and anyone else the President
wanls to nppolnt.
It hns no powers; Its Job Is to
advise the President on matlers
of security. It meets only when
the President wanls It to.
The National Securily Resources
Board is composed of government
department or agency heads cho-
Army Deserter Killed By
Guard In Escape Effort
SEATTLE. June 27. UP) A
24-year-old recruit under confine
ment for desertion was shot and
killed as he tried to escape from
a work detail at Fort Lawton yes
terday, Army officials reported.
His name was withheld pending
notification of next of kin.
The recruit and another prison
er were on a work detail near the
fort's hospital under guard of one
military policeman when he made
a dash for nearby woods. The
guard said he fired two warning
shots and chased the man about
200 yards, before his third shot,
from a .30 calibre carbine, hit the
recruit In the spine.
He was at Fort Lawton await
ing shipment to Alaska to face a
desertion charge, an Army spokes
man said.
sen by the President to sit on
it.
Its job Is to advise on our na
tional resources. For example, If
we faced war it would have to
tell the President what our re
sources were, in metals, factories
manpower, and so on.
You'll probably be hearing aboui
reorganization plans for years li
come.
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