U.S. civilians could feel pretty certain last week that no labor draft was going to upset their lives. The Senate Military Affairs Committee,* after listening to the protests of such varied antidraft groups as the National Association of Manufacturers, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the C.I.O., the A.F. of L., railway labor, the National Farmers Union, the National Grange, etc., had smothered the makeshift May-Bailey bill, which might have done the job.
All Secure on the Home Front. The big, soft pillow used to smother the May-Bailey bill was another bill whipped...
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