WASHINGTON -- President Roosevelt today sent to Congress a revolutionary plan to achieve "freedom from want" through unprecedented government influence over the nation's post-war economy and an immediately expanding "cradle-to-the-grave" social security system.

The program was drawn up by the National Resources Planning Board which said it should be the declared policy of this government "not only to promote and maintain a high level of national production and consumption, but also to:

1. Underwrite full employment for all employables.

2. Guarantee a job for every man released from the Armed Forces and war industries at the close of the war, with fair pay and working conditions.

3. Guarantee and, when necessary, underwrite:

A. Equal access to security.

B. Equal access to education for all.

C. Equal access to health and nutrition for all.

D. Wholesome housing conditions for all."

This is the American counterpart of the famous British Beveridge plan.

Among other things, the board recommended joint private-governmental partnership in various post-war industries, particularly aluminum, magnesium, shipbuilding and aircraft--consolidation of railroads into a limited number of regional systems to provide for "efficient and low-cost post-war traffic"--express highways, and expanded and integrated air transport.

It is also recommended that labor be assured its "essential safeguards of democracy"--collective bargaining, fair wages and hours, healthy and effective working conditions and "responsibility in organization and sharing in management."