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We can see to it that the economic machinery we have is well wsed. How does your local employment office function? Does your com- munity have extensive contacts with the Small Business Administration? With the FHA? Do local firms make use of government research? What is your central labor union doing to help build a stable economy in your region? Local business or management groups? Your state government? We can work for improved legislation. Become familiar with votes and views of your local representatives in the State Legislature and in the Congress. Teli them your views, in personal interviews where possible, and in clear, to-the-point letters on issues calling for legislation. And of course, search out and support good candidates for office. The Employment Act of 1946 should be strengthened. Some such legis- lation as the Area Redevelopment Bill needs to be passed. Unemployment compensation systems need overhauling; they need appropriations and more liberal regulations providing for realistic time periods in which satisfactory job changes can be made. We can encourage the mobilization and coordination of all gov- ernment agencies, national and regional—to plan for and assist in carry- ing out the retraining and relocation of workers affected; to encourage research for the development of new products which can create new employ- ment; and for the transfer to programs for the common welfare of productive capacity and labor now going into the arms race. We can urge our government to give first priority to the search for political agreements and the basis for international disarmament under law so that the world may be rescued from the fear of war and the burden of armaments lifted forever from the backs of mankind.