Union Head Urges U.S. To Check Recession Now
President David J. Mc-j Donald of the AFL-CIO' Steelworkers said yesterday tliatj immediate Federal action is!</br></br>President David J. Mc-j Donald of the AFL-CIO' Steelworkers said yesterday tliatj immediate Federal action is! neccs sary to check a recession that may prove to be the \v orst s incc World War II, M cDon aid told a conference of union r e p r e s e nta-livcs that the Nation's economy ÛÏentered a d angerous downward driftÛ before the* Soviet Union launched the! first satellite and is growing! steadily worse. He said hun-l dreds of thousands of union j members face a ÛÏcriticalÛ sit-( uation.	;</br></br>He said the result is a ÛÏweak-; cningÛ of national defenses at a time when Russian strength and productive output ,ve ris-iing. McDonald pointed to a So-' viet Union report that its in-, Idustrial production increased j .10 per cent in 1957. j McDonald proposed a sweep-1 mg program of Federal measures to halt the decline.</br></br>These included: A tax reduction in the form of an increase in the 600-dollar credit for dependents. a large-scale school and public construction, plan, land expanded housing pro-jgram. greater foreign aid, and ,increased Social Security bon-</br></br>He said steel facilities capa-j ble of turning out 50 million; tons of ingots a year are shut [down, and that 125.000 Steelworkers are unemployed and I an additional 200,000 working part time.