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First, the UMST provisions have been put off into the future. According to Committee Chairman Carl Vinson (D.-Ga.), UMST has become a very vagne entity in the latest version of the House bill. Although the President will have authority to set up a universal training program, he cannot act immediately. The Senate bill says that he must set up a commission to run this system, but its members must get Senate approval first. The House Committee's proposal may even force the President to work out the plans and get them through Congress before going ahead...
...until 1954) as the Defense Departments have requested. These men will begin their advanced education after finishing a four months "training period," and will owe the other 20 months of "service" which they can make up after their education. But the House bill does not even have this provision. Vinson would rather leave determination of deferments up to the military and the president; he does not like writing them into...
Meanwhile, the House Armed Services Committee agreed yesterday on a draft age of 181/2, and extension of the service period from 21 to 26 months. Chairman Vinson (D-Ga.) however, decided the committee could not get its bill in shape for House debate before the March 22 recess. This will delay consideration until April 2, when the members return...
When the Speaker of the House recognizes the honorable gentleman from Georgia, chairman of the Committee on the Armed Services" one day this week, a new draft Act will be just a month away. The gentleman from Georgia, Carl Vinson, will bring in HR 2811, the House version of the new draft bill, which he expects to be passed before spring recess next week. But it should take another two or three weeks for Senate and House conference committees to clear up differences between the Senate bill and House 2811, and for the two legislative branches to take their final...
Under the justices' eye were two cases involving streetcar workers and gas workers who maintained that Wisconsin had no right to require compulsory arbitration as the final step in a utility labor dispute. Chief Justice Fred Vinson and five other justices agreed with them. The justices' reasoning: compulsory arbitration destroys the right to strike, which is guaranteed by the Taft-Hartley Act (frequently denounced by labor as the "slave-labor" act). In a conflict between a federal and a state act, the federal act must be "supreme...