Southern France Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 15, 1945, Nice, Alpes Cote D'Azur                                N the stars and stripes Magazine july Job rights an old Issue revolves around fecs fight Iii Congress by Robert stars and stripes staff writer new Fanna buy a tank about every i and his buddy have coveted dreams of zipping along divvy Jane Iii a jeep or going off to the wilds with an a Shotgun or carbine after the but if have advanced any suit Able postwar civilian role for redeployed super bombers and the surplus War goods problem is just a Little headache now because most of this big As Well As the Little things mobilized for will remain in service until the japs have been but come Vij Day and Washington officialdom will have to lace cold of some 100 billion dollars in excess War a lot of leftovers that offer responsible officials a terrific repercussions of the rummage Sale of castoffs War materials in when Shock ing waste of surplus goods raised a re sounding howl from indignant Are still rocking some Federal just a few weeks ago the Treasury depart ment was still trying to sell a Hoard of Bolo knife scabbards that were declared surplus after the kaisers As one Treasury official who inherited the War i surplus goods headache declared who in the hell can use Bolo knife Scab Bords surplus goods Wise newcomers to Wash realizing that the big torrent of left Over War goods will not begin until Japan says already Are setting up shop for a Gigantic fire Sale that will make even Macys biggest bargain spree look like a lil put curbside the sur plus property Board which is handling the governments giant rummage Sale will have virtually every gunmen from was castoffs bras Sieres Ana girdles to minesweepers and bulldozers a flock of motorcycles Aesi Ned for desert use in North Africa were sent to the auction Block because they proved too slow for service in other and when a cavalry outfit changed Over to jeeps and motorized carriers a Lew months the army released redeployed nags for Sale to All the surpluses will of sold to dealers for resale to but the surplus property plans to see to it that the big business interests wont be elbowing out the Little the Veteran who wants that or maybe a dentists Drill to open that office a i loan has made most important of next to the sales priority the Veteran is promised on Many is the pee ceiling to be clamped on All surplus goods reaching dealers shelves As a safeguard against any oui be unscrupulous a few ago the office of Price administration posted maximum prices for some new and the army had declared a ceiling Price a was set on the More than obsolete Small Row Boa Type assault boats released to John responsible officiate Are mindful of the a billion Dollar rummage Sale confusion that resulted after the last War when gis Bent on opening their own businesses and farms encountered one stumbling Block after one of which was the problem of getting the necessary steam shovels and even writing paper and this time when Johnny goes marching Home the government promises to give him both financial and material with his i providing he can qualify for hell get first Call on Many available War surplus goods to help him open up in other he wont have to sweat it out until the necessary raw materials Are made available to private or see his dreams of private Enterprise blighted by salesmen with prices far beyond the reach of his limited Ost government officials Are cautious about painting too Rosy a picture of the anticipated surplus commodity for one More than half of the War inventory will be combat the largest item will be Worth 20 billion few warplanes probably will Ever find a civilian fighter planes have Little if any civilian use and the Cost of making a heavy bomber into a transport plane would be its Capa City for freight or Pas sengers and the ship would be fantastically expensive to operate perhaps that is Why the govern ment plans to dispose the bulk of them through its educational disposal under this plan about col aviation schools and institutions would be Able to Purchase them at Rock Bottom for a Complete flying use in teach ing new experiments in laboratories or training embryo some combat equipment will have to of held in but thoughtful army men Hope the reserves wont be too part of the weakness of the French army in they Point was due to its we Supply of Vintage of considerable equipment now on foreign shores never will be returned to the partly because of the huge costs involved in shipping it and partly because of the tremendous need for a lot of these heavy giant rail Way getting War ravaged especially in Back on their economic the army and Navy liquidation Beard already is doing business in changeling surplus goods that can be spared to foreign As one official explained it be stupid to cart this stuff Back to the we to Only have to ship a lot of it Back to Europe again to help in its Back m Many officials shouldering the War surplus disposal prob Lem Are pretty sure the fire Sale will go far smoother than after the last at least the bulk of the smaller stuff should find a ready either for resale or the bigger surplus commodities might be harder to get rid As one Optimist said surplus tanks Battle Toups super bombers some enter prising Guys will be converting them Roadside hot dog stands by Paul Green stars and stripes staff writer youre a discharged Soldier Home from the wars and youre looking for a you go to the local factory in your homr town and fill out an you belong to one of the Many minorities in american life and youve had this experience so you blink a Little when Yor come to a line that asks your you put Down jew or Catholic or Jehovah wit or whatever you or there May be a line for and if youre a you write that or they May want to know National origin and you put in italian or hungarian or Litho the smooth interviewer reads All your answers then with a syrupy smile he says thanks very Well keep this in our files and let you know when anything turns if Hes he might admit it is the policy of this company not to hire or Ita or anybody no matter How he brushes you you can usually Tell what the real reason was by those revealing questions in the application right now an employer can get away with that almost anywhere in the states and nothing much could be done about it except to thirteen states have some Type of ant discrimination statutes on their with new York leading the Field with a Law that sets up a state com Mission against yet the state Laws Are All vaguely worded and sound but nothing much is Ever done to enforce the Issue to raise ant discrimination legislation to a National level was brought to a Climax in 1940 when leading negro organizations charged that negroes were being discriminated against in National defense jobs and that neither government officials nor anyone else were really doing anything to better employment opportunities for in answer to this president Roosevelt on june issued an executive order declaring it the duty of employers and labor unions engaged in government contracts to refrain from Dis a fair employment practices committee was created to administer the the Fec was financed for three years with Money drawn from the presidents emergency War funds and in 1944 it was Given a appropriation by since the committee is strictly a War Agency due to fold up shop on Vij progressives in both houses of Congress decided a year ago to make it a permanent solidly supported by the Roose velt the proposed Legisla Tion met Strong opposition in Congress and both House and Senate Bills were the Fec was allotted the in the War agencies appropriations which passed the House after Sharp debate and the senates heavy this year All the various administration Bills have crystallized into two one presented to the House by Mary Norton chairman of the committee on and the other in the Senate by Dennis Chavez they represent the first attempt by con Gress to prescribe a method to prohibit n in Manlov Frt off Micro National origin or the legislation opponents in this session of Congress have succeeded in getting the Bills snarled in committee red chances for their passage in the near future Are but the Fec still needs funds to continue and it is on that basis that its enemies Are trying to de stroy the War agencies appropriations Bill for 1946 carried a fund for the a provision personally backed by president the Bill passed House intact with the Fec but in the Senate violent attacks and a fou Day filibuster Cut the figure Down to the time a com Promise ended the june 30 had rolled around and All funds for War agencies expired with the end of the fiscal by not passing the the Senate held up Money for 16 War which Are now forced to dip into their emergency the Senate returned the Bill to the House with the but the House turned it Down by cutting 000 from the thus sending it Back to the Senate the Tugo War has been postponed until the coming with the struggle threatening to become still More opposition to the Fec comes mainly from Southern who see in it a Challenge to Way in which Southern states Deal with the the More Rabid Southern demagogues hurled their full vocabulary of invective against the committee during the Senate some catholics Are linked wit some Rab trying to bring about racial Equality for the ranted Theodore Bilbo who held the floor most of the he referred to the niggers and jews of new hand in and called the Chavez Bill a Damn poisonous piece of legis James Eastland fumed that the negroes Are an inferior More rational opponents of the Fec base their stand on disagreement with underlying philosophy of the Bill that tolerance and Justice for minorities can be forced by they claim that the investigatory and punitive Powers the Bill would Grant the committee Are wholly Una Meri can and dangerous to both majorities and they say it is unworkable and will produce More harm than Good by stressing the differences Between various they claim education should be rather than supporters argue that is no Good unless the threat of compulsion goes along with the arguments for the Bill were summed up this Way by Malcolm Fec chairman As the War nears its final America must decide whether the barriers to equal Job temporarily stricken shall Rise we must decide whether our country can continue prosperous with on tenth of its population of the Opportunity of competing for work and Matching its skills on the basis of and thus consigned to menial jobs or in ranks