6 Million Idle Due for June
The Senate Finance Committee yesterday approved 11 to ,4 a House-passed bill to ex-j tend unemployment insurance payments up to 50 per cent. Tliis cleared the way for Senate action early next week.</br></br>President Eisenhower already has endorsed the meas-. ure although the House over-] hauled his original proposal: by eliminating its compulsory] features. The final decision on participation in the program now would be up to the states.</br></br>In another economy development, Labor Secretary James P. Mitchell warned Congress that unemployment probably will shoot past the 6 million mark in June. He urged the lawmakers not to react by becoming panicky and passing unwise anti-recession legislation.</br></br>Sen. John F. Kennedy CD-Mass.) described the bill approved by the Finance Committee as ÛÏpractically useless.Û He said it would merely permit states to ÛÏdo what they already can do.Û</br></br>Kennedy, whose own more liberal jobless pay bill was I the basis for most of the Doug-ilas amendments, said he iwould fight on the floor for a temporary program of ÛÏreal assistanceÛ and for permanent] improvements in unemployment programs.