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JOINT RESOLUTIONS

No. 76

temporary nature of these programs mitigates against the
development of quality jobs which render real services to
the communities and offer genuine opportunities for the
workers.

A program too small to do the jot serves to
encourage struggles over who will get the few jobs
available - - will they go to the newly laid-off or to
the long—term unemployed, will we hire the parent only to
ignore the child, the husband at the expense of the wife,
veteran as opposed to nonveteran.

[[HR 50]] Such an act will mean not only jobs for a
million people but self—respect and opportunities for
them and their families, needed public services for their
communities and increased aggregate demand for the
economy as well as revenue for federal, state, and local
governments. While the cost, $10,000,000,000 is not
small, the cost of doing less is higher - — higher in
terms of the individuals, their families, their
communities, the public revenues foregone and the belief
in the opportunity for productive work available for
persons who want and need to work; now, therefore, be it

RESOLVED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF MARYLAND, That
this Body supports [[HR 50]] a Full Employment Act to
establish and guarantee the rights of all adult Americans
able and willing to work to equal opportunities for
useful paid employment at fair rates of compensation; to
mandate such national policies and programs as may be
necessary to guarantee the free exercise of these rights;
to provide explicit executive, legislative and judicial
machinery for the development and implementation of such
policies and programs; to supplement the Employment Act
of 1946 by relating the attainment and maintenance of
genuine full employment to the restraint of inflation,
the enlargement of social justice, the promotion of small
business and competitive private enterprise, and other
essential national purposes and priorities; and within
this framework to provide for emergency action to help
combat the present recession through vigorous programs to
attain full employment without inflation; and be it
further

RESOLVED, That copies of this Resolution be sent to
the Maryland Congressional Delegation: Senators Charles
McC. Mathias, Jr., and J. Glenn Beall, Jr., Senate Office
Building, Washington, D.C., 20510; Representatives Robert
E. Bauman, Clarence D. Long, Paul S. Sarbanes, Marjorie
S. Holt, Gladys N. Spellman, Goodloe E. Byron, Parren J.
Mitchell, and Gilbert Gude, House Office Building,
Washington, D.C., 20515.

Approved May 17, 1976.