THE WEEK IN REVIEW
THE WEEK IN REVIEW THE LONG and bitter struggle over the cost-of-living neared another of its periodic showdowns this week on three fronts—wages, prices, and taxes. In the field of wages,...
...A $10,000 salary looks good until after he has paid his taxes, his Washington living expenses, his campaign expenses, and his bills for maintaining a house back home...
...It appeared possible that Congress might take the lead in settling the dispute by passing the Truman Resolution which would approve the eight cents an hour increase agreed upon by railroad management and labor Aug...
...Committee members who voted for the bill were Sens...
...The Committee's measure assigns two-thirds of the new burden to excise taxes on liquor, cosmetics, and many other items...
...O'Mahoney to substitute a constitutional amendment for the repeal bill failed...
...Cost...
...In the field of wages, organized labor opened its heaviest fire on the so-called Little Steel formula...
...Although 44 nations, representing 80 per cent of world's population, joined in forming the new agency, it was apparent that the United States would be called upon again to provide the bulk of the food, tools, machinery, medical aid, and administrative organization required to do the job...
...For some Senators the total will run much higher...
...Three per cent of American soldiers stationed in the British Isles are so thoroughly smitten by English girls that they get married in spite of all the official barriers thrown in their way, a recent survey disclosed...
...I think, too, the President's phrase of 'unconditional surrender' was most unfortunate, and that the imposition of such harsh terms would sow the seeds for World War III...
...Washington observers predicted that the anti-subsidy measure would pass both House and Senate...
...A court-martial which found him guilty penalized him only...
...O'Mahoney contended that the anti-poll tax bill is an unconstitutional invasion of states' rights, but 10 leading legal authorities, including Prof...
...Walter George, Georgia Democrat, revealed that the Senate's Special Postwar Committee unanimously favored getting ready for Demobilization Day by fixing new major policies for reconversion of industry to civilian pursuits after the war ends...
...To read the dramatically written messages and to see the highly-colored photographs and drawings, one would almost think that our battles were not won by our fighting men at all, but by our industries...
...Those voting against the bill were Sens...
...Members of Congress also worry too much...
...It is not only his Congressional duties, but his personal finances that worry him...
...b: reducing his rank from colonel to captain...
...Other noteworthy news developments of the week were these: Plans For "D" Day Sen...
...Tories Plan New Filibuster A secret conference of 16 Southern Senators last week prepared the groundwork for a new attempt to talk to death a proposal to outlaw the payment of poll taxes as a qualification for voting for federal officials...
...A week before Sen...
...I think Roosevelt has done enormous harm by his failure to formulate a definite American policy...
...The Missourian, who exposed some of the tricks of wartime advertising in The Progressive several months ago, denounced "blue sky" advertising which pays great tribute to the achievements of American industry...
...Nations, no less than individuals, desire to live in self-respect," he said...
...The House Ways and Means Committee completed action on the new tax bill calling for $2,142,900,-000 in new levies, instead of the $10,500,000,000 asked by the Treasury...
...which limits wage increases to 15 per cent above the Jan...
...And I don't believe in marrying 'unlimited cooperation' either, which is what a lot of Senators seem to want, judging by their speeches...
...Martial law was declared at the camp after 1,000 Japanese allegedly demonstrated against camp authority...
...On the third front of the cost-of-living battle—taxation—the Administration was in full retreat this week...
...He said this policy, which he described as "cruel and indefensible," might leave only Germany healthy enough to reconstruct the continent after the war...
...Tom Connally, Texas, Carl A. Hatch, New Mexico, Charles O. Andrews, Florida, and Joseph C. O'Mahoney, Wyoming, all Democrats, and Chapman Revercomb, West Virginia, and Warren R. Austin, Vermont, both Republicans...
...The measure had passed the House by a vote of 265 to 110 last May...
...The plans call for the appointment of Bernard M. Baruch, the Administration's trouble-shooter, to head a new demobilization agency, but the Committee is split on whether the organization should serve in an advisory capacity or have wide powers to act...
...Many of the reports from Tule Lake, he said, were "exaggerated and even hysterical...
...Subsidy Program Under Attack The most urgent problem involved the 1,500,000 operating and non-operating employes of the nation's railroads who are being polled on a strike vote...
...1, 1941, scale...
...Herbert Lehman, former governor of New York, was elected director-general of the UNRRA...
...They turn to us with no idea of long continuing relief...
...Meanwhile, in the midst of global planning for postwar relief, Howard E. Kershner, who directed relief in Europe for the Quakers from 1939 to 1942, charged that "a few men in London" were blocking shipment of food to starving European children...
...Candidate...
...7, but rejected by the Roosevelt Administration...
...To this end they seek opportunity to work, produce, and trade...
...U. S. government war expenditures totaled 138 billion dollars through October, or more than three times the total cost of World War I, the War Production Board disclosed last week...
...George W. Calver, who has looked after the health of Congressmen for 15 years, last week prescribed a long period of rest and relaxation for "overworked, nervous, and underpaid" Congress...
...The National Prohibition Party jumped the gun last week and nominated C. A. Watson, 58, Los Angeles attornev, as its candidate for President in 1944...
...I think all our promises of cooperation should be properly conditioned...
...Retirement For Colman William T. Colman, the drunken Army colonel who shot a Negro private at Selfridge Field, Mich., several months ago, is no longer in the Army...
...Meanwhile, the Administration's food subsidy program was imperiled when the House of Representatives prepared to vote this week on legislation which would extend the life of the Commodity Credit Corporation, but prohibit it from using subsidies to hold down prices after the end of 1943...
...In addition to his work on the floor and in committees, a member of the House receives and answers 250 letters a day...
...W. H. Judd, Minnesota Republican, opposed the move, asserting that it overrode the will of the Filipinos who had indicated that they wanted Vice President Sergio Osmena, who is also in this country, to succeed Quezon...
...Sen...
...Quezon's Term Extended Extension of the term of Manuel L. Quezon, president of the Philippine Islands, for the duration of the war was voted last week by both houses of the U. S. Congress...
...He emphasized that the objective of the organization would be to "help people to help themselves...
...Truman said the government could not stop such advertising without undertaking to censor ads, and he called upon the advertising industry to "review its own practices...
...Frederick Van Nuys, Indiana, Pat McCarran, Nevada, A. B. Chandler, Kentucky, Harley M. Kilgore, West Virginia, Abe Murdock, Utah, Ernest W. McFarland, Arizona, Burton K. Wheeler, all Democrats, and John D. Danaher, Connecticut, Alexander Wiley, Wisconsin, William Langer, North Dakota, Homer Ferguson, Michigan, and Kenneth S. Wherry, Nebraska, Republicans...
...About $606,000,000 of the total would come from raising the corporate excess profits tax rate from 90 to 95 per cent...
...An Administration offer of a four to 10 cents an hour increase for the 1,100,000 non-operating workers was spurned by the unions as totally inadequate...
...An indignant public demanded sterner punishment, and the War Department last week ordered Colman retired from the Army but granted him a pension...
...The poll tax bloc, which is always supporting legislation to reform the rest of the world, is determined that the federal government shall not interfere with state laws which now prevent 10,000,000 Negroes and poor whites from voting...
...Aroused by the soaring cost of living, the fantastic "take" of the middlemen in the food industry, and the spectacular increase in corporate profits, labor unions demanded abandonment of the Little Steel straitjacket...
...Demonstration At Tule Lake Agitation for penning up all Japanese in America for the duration of the war gathered momentum last week following a demonstration at the War Relocation Authority's camp at Tule Lake, Calif...
...They pointed out, however, that the President would almost certainly veto the repealer, as he did earlier this year, and that his veto might be sustained by a narrow margin...
...They wish to become self-reliant members of the world community...
...Discussing proposals for "unlimited cooperation" with foreign nations, Norman Thomas, Socialist leader, said: "I don't believe in marrying blind dates...
...George s announcement James F. Byrnes, director of the Office of War Mobilization, appointed Baruch to head a new unit within OWM for post-war adjustment problems...
...An attempt by Sen...
...Helping Britain recover Burma and Malaya and to hold India, and a handful of rich Dutchmen to get back Java won't help bring a lasting peace...
...Unlike the nine other relocation centers, the camp at Tule Lake is a segregation institution for disloyal Japanese, Dillon S. Myer, director of the War Relocation Authority, warned that the reports of the Tule Lake disturbance might be made the pretext for abusive action against American civilians and prisoners of war held in Japan...
...Names And Notes In The News Blind Date...
...Then there are constituents who come to Washington for Congressional aid...
...Edwin Borchard of Yale, Dean Lloyd K. Garrison of the University of Wisconsin Law School, and George Gordon Battle, pronounced the pending bill constitutional...
...William H. Davis, chairman of the War Labor Board, warned union leaders that the WLB intends to adhere firmly to its wage stabilization policy, including the Little Steel formula, but there were many indications that the Board would have to give ground to CIO, AFL, and Railroad Brotherhood demands, just as it was compelled to compromise in the case of the United Mine Workers after many months of bitter strife and dwindling production...
...Secret plans for a new filibuster were made after the Senate Judiciary Committee voted 12 to 6 to recommend the anti-poll tax bill for passage...
...Harry S. Truman, chairman of the Senate's famed war investigating committee, summoned the advertising industry to curb the wartime abuse of advertising—at government expense—to mislead the public...
...Congress...
...Thomas said Winston Churchill and Josef Stalin are "smart men" who know what they want, but he thought the United States should have served them with notice of what it stood for...
...Rebuke...
...Most of them don't realize it but the average Senator or Congressman has the toughest job of them all," the Capitol physician declared...
...Global Relief Organized The staggering size of the post-war job of providing relief and rehabilitation to the war-stricken countries of the world was outlined at Atlantic City last week when the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) was established...
...Love...
Vol. 7 • November 1943 • No. 47
