THE WEEK IN REVIEW
THE WEEK IN REVIEW ADRAMATIC legal battle, whose outcome might go far toward determining the scope of President Roosevelt's extraordinary wartime powers, was being fought in the Federal court of...
...The nation's two war-making departments are in sharp conflict over postwar consolidation of the Army and Navy and their air arms under one department...
...Avery yielded, and the contract was signed effective as of Dec...
...Every morning after low mass I pray for Joe Stalin and for Russia, as does every Catholic priest in the world...
...Avery left his desk...
...Defending the Administration's action, William H. Davis, chairman of the War Labor Board, declared the strike at Ward's had "epidemic potentialities" that fully justified the WLB in asserting its jurisdiction in the case...
...The Government's chief antagonist was Sewell Avery, hard-boiled and hard-hitting foe of organized labor who is president of Ward's...
...John W. Bricker declared that the four great Allied powers must assume joint guardianship of the peace "until 3 permanent international organization can be established...
...The Senate Judiciary Committee launched an investigation, and the House Rules Committee flashed the green light for inquiry by House investigators...
...13, 1942, refused to abide by the Board's order for the maintenance-of-membership provision, saying he would sign only if the President expressly ordered him to do so...
...The strikers complied, but Avery refused to recognize the WLB's order and the company's directors decided to test the authority of the President to seize the plant...
...Speaking at the opening of a British welcome club, Gen...
...After an unprecedented conference with Joe Stalin, the priest, who is of Polish descent, hailed Red plans for "a free, independent, and democratic Poland...
...Responding to questions from a London newspaper, Sen...
...Hatred in America is terrific," he said...
...There can be no doubt that the dispute, if not settled, would lead to a substantial interference with the war effort, quite apart from the fact that the company makes and distributes goods needed in connection with the war," Davis said...
...I have on several occasions announced I was not a candidate for the position...
...Avery accepted the pay raise ordered, but on Nov...
...Whereas last Summer he demanded an outright alliance with Great Britain, Dewey modified his request last week and asked for "durable cohesion" between the United States and Britain, and, he said he hoped, also Russia and China...
...Testifying before a special House investigating committee, Lt...
...The amount merely covered the pennies of which buyers of the candy bars had been defrauded...
...Some of the bitterest letters he receives come from Communists, he declared, adding that "we can hate communism without hating Communists...
...Cheating...
...There were reports from Washington that Forrestal might be named to succeed Knox, although the politically conscious around the President were reported to be urging him to appoint Lt Comdr...
...A subsequent revision claimed that Patton had included Russia among the world rulers...
...Patton added: "The sooner our soldiers write home and say how lovely the English ladies are, the sooner American dames will get jealous and force the war to a successful conclusion...
...Mars, Inc., of Chicago, candy manufacturers, paid a $515,000 penalty last week for cheating on the weight of its candy bars between Aug...
...Hate...
...This agreement expired last December, and about that time the company notified the union that it did not intend to negotiate a contract for the two major departments in Chicago on the ground that the union had not demonstrated it represented a majority of employes...
...Msgr...
...One week later, President Roosevelt ordered Ward's to sign, but Avery stalled again— this time to take full-page advertisements in the press to inform the public that he was "under duress...
...Arthur Vandenberg, Michigan Republican, asserted that America's self-interest "includes rational and practical international cooperation with Britain and all the other sovereign United Nations to stabilize peace, justice, and economy...
...Avery again refused to relinquish control...
...The latter ordered the strikers back to work and directed the company to continue the contract until the election was held...
...The President's action in seizing the company created a stir in Congress, and the nation...
...Meanwhile, there was silence in Democratic ranks, partly because of concern over whether President Roosevelt will run...
...Representing the President and the Government in the far-reaching constitutional fight was Atty...
...Alarmed by the widespread denunciation of Patton's remarks, the War Department disavowed responsibility, insisting that the general was "expressing his own personal views...
...He pointed out that the basic test of WLB jurisdiction as laid down by Congress is whether a dispute is one which "may lead to substantial interference with the war effort" and added, "that test was fully met in this case...
...Francis Biddle, who came from Washington to defend the advice he gave Mr...
...Avery refused, and the union called a. strike Apr...
...It will vigilantly protect essential and legitimate American self-interest precisely as Mr...
...Stanislaus Orlemanski, American Catholic priest, to Moscow...
...Msgr...
...When Avery sought to get a provision in the contract that he was signing "under duress," President Roosevelt intervened again, summoning Avery to sign as originally directed...
...New York's Gov...
...The courtroom showdown came as a climax to the spectacular seizure of Montgomery, Ward & Co., second largest merchandising organization in the nation, by Federal officials acting on orders from President Roosevelt...
...Avery said "no...
...Fulton J. Sheen, noted member of the faculty of the Catholic University of America, warned last week that a major reason for the danger of decadence in America is the development of class hatreds, name-calling, and bigotry...
...THE WEEK IN REVIEW ADRAMATIC legal battle, whose outcome might go far toward determining the scope of President Roosevelt's extraordinary wartime powers, was being fought in the Federal court of Chicago this week...
...24, 1942...
...Patton also said that the only welcoming he had done for some time has been the "welcoming of Germans and Italians into hell...
...Vandenberg also declared that a Republican administration "will not join a world state...
...Background For Strife The fight between Ward's and the CIO's United Mail Order, Warehouse, and Retail Employes Union is now four years old...
...Roosevelt— that the President's wartime powers were broad enough to include seizure of a merchandising establishment like Ward's...
...Meanwhile, Biddle beat the company to the draw when he went into Federal court and secured a temporary injunction restraining the company from interfering with Government operation of the plant...
...Douglas MacArthur, commander-in-chief of Allied forces in the Southwest Pacific, ended all speculation and sniping about his political ambitions when he announced unequivocally that he is not a candidate for the Republican nomination for President and would not accept it if it were offered him...
...It was the first time the Government had taken over a concern primarily engaged in distributing civilian supplies...
...It was in that year that the union began to organize...
...Taylor left, but returned several hours later with nine deputy United States marshals...
...Appearing before the same committee, Undersecretary of the Navy James Forrestal announced that any action now would find the Navy "definitely in opposition...
...Conflict...
...The WLB, a creation of the President's, despaired of settling the dispute after a week of confusion, and turned the controversy over to the President again...
...Undersecretary of Commerce Wayne C. Taylor called on Avery, read him the President's order, and announced that he was taking over management of the huge mail-order firm...
...1 and Dec...
...MacArthur Says No' Gen...
...GOP On Foreign Policy Developments in Republican ranks during the past week indicated that that party's campaign plank on foreign policy would not be greatly different from the Democratic Party stand on that issue...
...When he returned to his office next morning, two soldiers carried him out after he had refused to turn over the firm's books or cooperate with Department of Commerce agents...
...Then I shall have a chance to go and kill Japanese...
...M. J. Ready, general secretary of the National Catholic Welfare Conference, promptly denounced the visit as "unauthorized," a "political burlesque," and "the phoniest propaganda that the usually clever idea men in Russia have palmed off on the United States...
...The WLB ordered another NLRB election and called on Ward's to extend the contract pending the decision...
...Challenge Accepted The White House acted promptly to accept the challenge...
...The fall of Germany will release 35 per cent of America's wartime productive capacity for output of civilian goods, the War Production Board estimated last week...
...The Soviet and American press devoted a great amount of space last week to the visit of the Rev...
...Nevertheless, in view, of these circumstances, in order to make my position unequivocal, I request that no action be taken that would link my name in any way with the nomination...
...Sen...
...Speaking along similar lines, Ohio's Gov...
...Montgomery, Ward's, he pointed out, is not "just an ordinary dealer in merchandise," but had 78,000 employes engaged in a gross annual business exceeding half a billion dollars, including manufacture of farm equipment, and in its affiliated company, of carburetors, propellers, and gun mounts for military aircraft...
...George S. ("Blood 'n Guts") Patton, who created a national stir earlier in the year when he struck a wounded soldier, crashed the front pages again last week, this time with a speech in London in which he declared that Britain and the United States are "undoubtedly" destined to rule the world...
...Visitor...
...I do not covet it, nor would I accept it...
...The always circumspect New York Times reported that the President's health has been "giving concern" and that "nature and his physicians may furnish a negative answer" to the fourth-term question...
...Said the General in a statement: "Since my return from the Hol-landia operations, I have had brought to my attention a widespread public opinion that it is detrimental to our war effort to have an officer in high position on active service at the front considered for nomination for the office of President...
...In February, 1942, the National Labor Relations Board certified the local as bargaining agent for Ward's employes, and the WLB ordered the company to sign a contract, including a voluntary "maintenance-of-membership" clause, a modified form of the closed shop...
...Thomas E. Dewey warmed the hearts of the so-called "internationalists" when he spoke of cooperating with other nations in building "a structure of peace backed by adequate force to prevent future wars...
...I have done a lot in that direction and have got about 177,000 there," he said...
...J. T. McNarney, deputy chief of staff of the Army, urged approval of such a merger, the one overall organization to be headed by a "Secretary of the Armed Forces...
...Churchill repeatedly, asserts his vigorous purpose to protect British self-interest...
...Names And Notes In The News Patton Again...
...Harold Stassen to the post...
...8, 1942, to continue for one year...
...Output...
...Taylor left, and this time when he returned he brought three truck-loads of U. S. soldiers...
...Forrestal became Acting Secretary of the Navy when Secretary Frank Knox died of a heart attack last week...
Vol. 8 • May 1944 • No. 19
