Washington and the Nation
STOUT, JONATHAN
Washington and the Nation Prelude to the Frisco Conference By JONATHAN STOUT WASHINGTON, D. C.—I write this on the point of leaving for San Francisco to cover the security conference. The...
...the porter has just swung my bags aboard...
...Rogers' proposals...
...A reliable report has it that no cabinet changes are scheduled until after the San Francisco Conference...
...And it's safe to say that Secretary Stettinius is perfectly happy and willing...
...It might be possible then to produce a good quality leather shoe whose durability would be such that the present rationing program would fulfill the footwear needs of the people of this country...
...until the combined energies of Samuel Wolchok, president of the United Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Employees af America (CIO), and Congresswoman Edith Nourse Rogers of Massachusetts focussed the spotlight on the obvious...
...Yet only 550,000 skins were tanned to make pigskin...
...Diplomatic authoritiea are giving the credit for this step in the direction of renewal of democracy in Brazil to the great ability and democratic influence of United States Ambassador A. A. Berle, Jr...
...Look for a resurgence of Hull's influence in the State Department...
...Samuel Wolchok was the first of the labor leaders to rally to the support of Mrs...
...The swallowing of Poland is turning out to be a bone in the threat Ami behind Stalin's sudden decision to send Farsign Minister Molotov to head the Russian delegation instead of the tenth-rate Gromyko is President Traman's instructions to the American delegation to San Francisco to use its own judgment and make its decisions by a majority vote...
...a fairly strict rationing system, OPA authorities now admit that the number of shoes avail-sals is fewer than the total number of tickets outstanding...
...4. Manufacturers of leather products such as shoes, luggage, gloves, etc., who cannot secure sufficient leather to manufacture their products...
...The correspondent*' special train B shout to leave . . . the reservations have all...
...Congresswoman Rogers made a speech in the House, pointing out: "Just a few days ago the War Production Board announced 'a deep slash in the supply of leather for civilian shoes in April, May and June.' I am reliably informed that only 10 or 15 percent of the leather recently available for upper leather for shoes would be available for those three months...
...President Getulio Vargas of Bratil this week signed sn amnesty decree freeing all political prisoners, many of whom have been in prison for 10 years, and granting political exiles the right to return to Brazil...
...It was at the dinner given in Washington's Mayflower Hotel by a* joint committee of Italian-American, liberal, labor and other organisations under the leadership of Luigi AntonmL a Bad Planning Creates Leather Shortage Pigskin ia one of the best and most durable of leathers...
...8. The tanning industry—who cannot now get sufficient skins to maintain full operation...
...Rogers...
...Hundreds and thousands Of pigskins go into the making of fertiliser every year, instead of being tanned and made into leather...
...The wire to Congress said that many groups in addition to consumers will benefit: 1. Farmers—who will get the increased value from their hog production...
...Our immediate problem Is whether w f e on with the special train or back out at the last ¦lasts and get on the trail of Sir Achibald Clark-Kerr, British Ambassador ta Moscow...
...There is a serious shortage of good quality ahoes...
...And nobody said "How come...
...W. Ave rill Harriman, Antrican Ambassador to the Kremlin, and the foreign abutter* of the three Great Powers...
...With Irving Simon and Samuel Lowen thai, managers of the Retail Shoe Employees Union's Locals 1268 and 287, Wolchok aent a wire to the New York delegation on Capitol Hill, urging support of Mrs...
...In practical effect, this means that only fabric shoe* will be made during tab period____ "As a result of the continued reduction in quality saa to the lack of leather, the number of shoes produced in this country has continued to decline so that, ia spite of...
...But, of course, MaeLeish will not be .able to exclude the Jewish Labor Committee from other avenues of expression...
...If only one-half of the hogs slaughtered were skinned and the skins were tanned, the leather supply available in this country would be doubled...
...tad mf fellow-correspondents and I are wondering vttthar we are not about to miss the Big Story right asm hi Washington...
...President Wolchok stated that the union plans an aggressive campaign to seek the support of organisations interested in consumer welfare to help bring about the sdoption of this program...
...a new product will have been developed and we may be in position - then, as good neighbors, to aid in filling the footwear needs of our allies abroad...
...Molotov will be cheered to learn when he arrives hare that be has had some help in certain quarters of ear awn State...
...He baa succeeded in excluding this anti-Communist organisation, one of the largest, enjoying the support of several million American voters...
...Department...
...hogs were slaughtered in federally-inspected slaughter houses last year...
...According to the Agricultural Department, 74,804...
...A case in point is the bitter opposition of Assistant Secretary MaeLeish to the Jewish Labor Committee...
...The rumor is that Act I of the San Francisco Conference will be played out in Washington...
...bean mit...
...President Truman and the venerable Cordell Hull are a couple of Democrats who speak the same language...
...6. Retail distributive industry—who are suffering from a shortage of goods to sell to the consuming public...
...For the first time in eight or nine years, AFL President William Green and repreaentativaa of the United Mine Workers mat weak appeared as speakers on the same program...
...2. Packers—who will get added value from the skins which now are mainly thrown in the vat to produce fertiliser...
...So Molotov is coming ¦ere—backed up by the British and American AmbasEto Moscow—to put the heat on President Trans' persuade him that America's sense of honor tir play must not stand ia the way of the betrayal of our Polish allies...
...Outstanding in that respect is the contribution of Assistant Secretary Archibald MaeLeish, in charge of public liaison, who, in selecting 42 American organisations to send consultants and advisers to the American delegation to San Francisco, made sura to omit certain organisations Which have gone publicly on record against the Lublin regime and in favor of the legitimate Polish government-in-ejdle In London...
Vol. 28 • April 1945 • No. 16
