THE WEEK IN REVIEW
THE WEEK IN REVIEW PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT struck anew at organized labor this week when he summoned Congress to pass a national service law which would permit the government to compel the labor in war...
...The bill, sponsored by Sens...
...One decision revealed a sharp rift between Justice Felix Frankfurter on the one hand and Justices Hugo L. Black and Frank Murphy on the other...
...Roger Baldwin, director of the American Civil Liberties Union, expressed a widely shared feeling when he said it was "shocking that the Supreme Court should refuse a hearing in so clear-cut an issue of free speech which had nothing to do with the war and could not be construed as an interference with the war effort...
...Of the 30, 22 had been twice indicted before on similar charges, but the Department of Justice, which sought the indictments, has refused to bring them to trial...
...Resentment over the Marshall affair was widespread throughout the nation...
...Roosevelt, and any of their five children...
...Clare Boothe Luce charged last week that bombs dropped on Pearl Harbor were marked figuratively, "Made in America by Roosevelt's Foreign Policy...
...bill of low income families...
...President Roosevelt reported last week that the United States handed out $18,608,553,000 in Lend-Lease aid from Mar...
...Charles Edison, Democrat, told the nation last week that Frank Hague, fascist boss of Jersey City, "would have been a dead duck politically long ago had it not been for patronage from Washington...
...Names And Notes In The News Blame...
...Surely the Chief of Staff has his hands full preparing for the approaching invasion of Northern Europe...
...See editorial, Page 12...
...Strife...
...Taking cognizance of the criticism, Crowley entered a general denial, insisting that FEA was proceeding along planned lines and performing the multiple missions assigned it by the President...
...Brought together in the new FEA were Lend-Lease, Office of Economic Warfare, Office of Foreign Relief and Rehabilitation, foreign procurement division of the Commodity Credit Corporation, and Office of Foreign Economic Coordination of the State Department...
...New Jersey's Gov...
...Sedition Appeal Denied The U. S. Supreme Court refused last week to review the conviction of 18 leaders of the "Trotskyite" Socialist Workers Party and the Minneapolis Teamsters Union who have been sentenced to jail for 16 months—the first peacetime sedition convictions since 1798...
...Bitter Resistance Seen The President's demand for authority to conscript labor came shortly after his own Secretary of Labor, Frances Perkins, had announced that "labor's contribution to the war effort is colossal" and represents an "unparalleled achievement...
...Nazi Conspiracy Charged A District of Columbia grand jury last week returned an indictment charging 30 persons with conspiring with officials of the German government to extend Nazism to America...
...3. A "cost-of-food" law which would permit the government to put a reasonable floor under farm prices and a ceiling on the prices consumers pay...
...She pointed out that the "ratio of man-days lost through strike to time worked was 08 of 1 per cent...
...Burton K. Wheeler, Montana Democrat, expressed a viewpoint which had gained great support when he said that Marshall had no right to hurl his charges that labor was prolonging the war until he explained Pearl Harbor...
...In his annual message to Congress, read by clerks to the two Houses as a cold kept the President in the White House, the Chief Executive called for adoption of a five-point program, the first point of which was a national service act...
...A Question For Marshall Labor, organ of the Railroad Brotherhoods, expressed a conviction widely shared among experienced observers that Gen...
...George D. Aiken, Vermont Republican, and Robert M. La Follette, Jr., Wisconsin Progressive, would provide for the distribution of food stamps to families of substandard incomes in order to assure them an adequate, basic diet...
...Waste...
...Roosevelt did not take a single step to prepare us for war in the Pacific in case his policy of appeasing Japan should prove a failure...
...Dennis charged that, the objective of the indictments "is to intimidate effective opposition...
...The government's indictment is good showmanship...
...More and more he was being blamed for the New Year's Eve fiasco staged by Gen...
...4. Reenactment of the Economic Stabilization Act, which expires June 30...
...It is good Hollywood, good Berlin, good Moscow, but it is not good law or good logic...
...2. Continuation of the law permitting renegotiation of contracts...
...Help for Hague...
...Although I am convinced," the President told Congress and the nation, "that we and our Allies can win without such a measure, I am certain that nothing less than total mobilization of manpower and capital resources will guarantee an earlier victory...
...George C. Marshall, Army Chief of Staff...
...Now, six months after the great reshuffle, FEA is in trouble...
...The Trumaji Committee of the Senate, which is investigating the war program, denounced the Army last week for undertaking the $134,000,000 Canadian oil project, known as Canol, and criticized as "inexcusable" the Army's insistence that the development be completed at an additional cost of many millions of dollars...
...It was Marshall who unloaded on a select group of newsmen the comment that Axis morale had been strengthened, the war prolonged, and hundreds of thousands of additional deaths made necessary by labor disturbances such as those involving the railroads and the steel industry...
...Russia received 25 per cent, Great Britain 43...
...The U. S. Supreme Court appears to be more badly divided than ever before, despite the fact that it numbers seven Roosevelt appointees...
...Labor accused the President of "snatching" the rail wage controversy from the hands of the Mediation Board, and then taking over the roads "with great beating of drums" while, in fact, a settlement was imminent and seizure of the railroads unnecessary...
...Above all it is not good Americanism...
...Why should the White House prompt this capable soldier to put on false whiskers and make an international incident out of a dispute which should have been and could have been settled by the President of the United States in 24 hours, on perfectly reasonable terms...
...The President reserved a life estate with the right of use and occupancy for himself, Mrs...
...Labor demanded to know...
...Other Major Events Other significant news developments of the week were these: FEA Under Fire Last Summer President Roosevelt ended a major squabble between Vice President Henry A. Wallace and Milo Perkins on one side and Secretary of Commerce Jesse Jones on the other by stripping them all of authority over the government's foreign economic operations and vesting what appeared to be complete control in a new agency, Foreign Economic Administration, under Leo T. Crowley...
...That is a good record in any field of human relations...
...Suit...
...30, 1943...
...The WFA estimated that 18,000,000 Americana would be eligible for the stamp benefits...
...The other four were: 1. "A realistic tax law" to tax all "unreasonable profits...
...They were accused of uniting on a division of world markets in the chemical industry...
...Critics complained last week that the unification which drew so much praise in July still existed largely on paper, that FEA has lost most of the able men who manned its component organizations, that there is much delay, confusion, temporizing, and lack of intelligent planning...
...Food Stamp Plan Approved The War Food Administration sprang a major surprise when it endorsed legislation which would set up a government stamp plan to subsidize the grocery...
...THE WEEK IN REVIEW PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT struck anew at organized labor this week when he summoned Congress to pass a national service law which would permit the government to compel the labor in war industry of "every able-bodied adult in this nation...
...Edison pointed out that Hague has been losing ground in the city and state elections and has become "a floundering dictator for whom everything in the last two years seems to have gone wrong...
...History will record that at a time when this America of ours was the greatest and strongest and richest of the world's nations, there nevertheless was allowed to come upon us the costliest and bloodiest war in all history...
...The fact that Hague is still a political force at all is due almost exclusively to federal patronage from the Roosevelt Administration...
...It was clear to all observers that the President had lost heavily in popularity among labor's ranks...
...I, therefore, state that it is unseemly for anyone in the military establishment to strike at labor until Pearl Harbor has been explained...
...President Roosevelt has deeded his home at Hyde Park, N. Y., and about 33 acres of land to the federal government to be used, along with the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library, as a national shrine...
...In the course of 14 decisions handed down in its first session of 1944, every one of the nine judges dissented, some of them three or four times...
...Marshall had been prompted, inspired, or ordered to make his fantastic statement by the President...
...One of the 30 indicted this time was Lawrence Dennis, 50, war veteran and author, who pleaded not guilty when arrested...
...Said Edison: "In spite of all we can do, Washington still stands for Hague appointments, and he is still getting plenty of federal patronage...
...Bitter resistance to the President's insistence on a forced labor act developed rapidly in the ranks of organized labor, and it was clear to Washington correspondents that a bitter battle awaited the Administration's drive to jam such a measure through this newly convened session of Congress...
...The latter two accused Frankfurter of interpreting the law on the basis of his own concept tions of "morals" and "ethics...
...Marshall dragged into the rail wage controversy...
...The 18 were indicted before Pearl Harbor under the Smith Sedition Act of 1940 which makes it a crime to spread doctrines which may lead to the overthrow of the government...
...He asserted that the new agency had worked closely with other federal departments in developing a foreign economic policy for America...
...Passage of such legislation would be designed primarily to "prevent strikes" and to require millions of Americans "who are not in this war at all" to participate as the government directed, Mr...
...The Connecticut Republican, wife of the publisher of Time, Life, and Fortune, asserted that "Mr...
...Why was Gen...
...Shrine...
...Determined to strike a "major blow" against the international cartel system, the Department of Justice launched anti-trust court action last week against Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd., of London, E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Company, Inc., and the Remington Arms Company, Inc...
...11, 1941, to Nov...
...Roosevelt asserted...
...In fact, that's about all he is living on now...
...Denouncing the Roosevelt Administration's pre-war policy toward Japan as consisting of "appeasement, non-cooperation, and unpreparedness," Rep...
...This, they said, was, to say the least, dangerous business...
...Surprise over WFA's approval of the plan was occasioned by the fact that the measure includes a ban against price control subsidies, regarded up to now as the Roosevelt Administration's key weapon in the fight to stabilize food prices...
...After pointing out that the Army had been warned repeatedly of an imminent Japanese attack but failed to take adequate steps, Wheeler added: "There cannot be the slightest doubt that the disaster, suffered through inadequate defense, prolonged the war in the Pacific for months and even years...
...Lend-Lease...
Vol. 8 • January 1944 • No. 3
