THE WEEK IN REVIEW

...THE WEEK IN REVIEW ABITTER political feud, with both Democrats and and Republicans maneuvering for partisan advantage, provided the backdrop against which a special Congressional Committee launched public hearings this week on the causes of the Pearl Harbor disaster Dec...

...Eisenhower reprimanded his commanders when he pointed out that "our standards of courtesy" had fallen below those "that Americans habitually observe at home...

...Liquidation...

...If there is anything that is clear from history," Bowles said, "it is that high wages, high production, and good profits go hand in hand...

...Where you find sweatshop wages, there you find that labor productivity is low, and the living standard of employe and employer alike are low...

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...Naval Hospital...

...28 "ultimatum" to the Japanese...

...Hazel Scott, noted Negro pianist, last week cancelled her scheduled appearance before the National Press Club dinner honoring President Truman...

...Miss Scott, who was recently barred from a Constitution Hall concert by the Daughters of American Revolution, refused to play for the gentlemen of the press because their club excludes Negro journalists and they are also denied admission to the press galleries of the House and Senate...

...The union had accepted Secretary of Labor Lewis Schwellenbach's proposal for a resumption of negotiations in line with President Truman's speech on wages and prices...

...Mere procedure, said R. J. Thomas, president of the United Automobile Workers, would not "put one more slice of bread in many workers' mouths...

...Joseph C. Grew, ambassador to Japan when war broke out...

...The program calls for the disbanding of all war agencies except "a few dealing with prices and other reconversion problems which should be coordinated under the Office of War Mobilization and Reconversion...

...Nye, Republican, out of the North Dakota Senatorial race next year by putting him on the Civil Aeronautics Board backfired last week when Nye refused the post...

...The U. S. Steel Corporation flatly refused to resume wage negotiations with the United Steel Workers, CIO, until the OPA acted on its demand for higher price ceilings...

...A New York Times dispatch reported that Murray was visibly angered by Lewis' language, and heatedly told the UMW boss that "The CIO is not afraid of anybody and I am not afraid of you...

...Nearly 1,000 U. S. Jewish" rabbis marched in Washington this week in a demonstration for opening Palestine to unrestricted Jewish immigration...

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...John W. Snyder, boss of reconversion, called for an investigation this week of charges that certain industries are withholding goods from the market until the excess profits tax is repealed Jan...

...Almost endless bickering marked the Committee's preliminary activities as Republican members accused the Democrats of suppressing evidence, and the Democrats charged the Republicans with playing politics with the investigation...

...Grace Tully, confidential secretary to the late President Roosevelt...

...Truman's instructions, Brewster charged, "seem to have been designed with devilish ingenuity to leave the head of executive departments in doubt as to what they are to do...

...George W. Taylor, executive secretary of the conference, announced accord on "full acceptance" of the principle of collective bargaining by both management and labor, and on an agreement to work out a system ending jurisdictional strikes...

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...Nobel Prize...

...Henry L. Stimson, then Secretary of War in the Roosevelt Cabinet...

...Bowles presented figures to show enormous wartime profits of industry, and demonstrated that even with a 65-cent "floor" such profits would still be far above peacetime levels...

...Demonstration...

...Nuts to you," snapped Murray...

...Owen Brewster, Maine, another Republican member of the Committee, declared that this action by the President "will inevitably be interpreted as directing the employes not to give any information concerning files or written materials...

...Cordell Hull, who was then Secretary of State and issued the Nov...

...Another development, which Taylor listed on the credit side of the ledger, was the decision by the committee on grievance procedure to favor an impartial chairman or umpire to decide grievances -while contracts with no-strike-no-lockout pledges are in force...

...Moreover," Ferguson pointed out, "Mr...

...Kramer was the subject of a bitter controversy last week...

...A survey at the WAC separation center at Fort Sheridan disclosed that more than 50 per cent of them intend to become housewives...

...Preliminary sessions of the conference were marked by stormy disputes between CIO and AFL spokesmen and between John L. Lewis, fiery chief of the United Mine Workers, and Philip Murray, soft-spoken president of the Congress of Industrial Organizations...

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...Reconversion...

...Walter Reuther, the UAW's vice president in charge of General Motors negotiations, told reporters the board's action "places the strike threat on a 24-hour basis," but it seemed clear that another meeting with General Motors officials would be held before a strike were called...

...They conceded afterwards, however, that Kramer* had not been incommunicado, but they said their conversations with the officer had confirmed their feeling that he would be "a highly important witness" at the hearings...

...In Detroit, Major Edward J. Jefferies won a fourth term by beating Richard T. Frankensteen, vice president of the CIO's United Automobile Workers, by 57,000 votes...

...Murray introduced a resolution which would put the conference on record as favoring full and prompt collective bargaining to achieve the program of increased wages advocated by President Truman in his recent address to the nation...

...A Truman Administration move to keep former Sen...

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...Names And Notes In The News Elections...

...Harold R. Stark, Chief of Naval Operations at the time...

...Deadlock In Two Industries Meanwhile, two of the nation's most important industries reached a deadlock in bargaining over wages...

...William O'Dwyer, backed by a coalition of Tammany Democrats, the American Labor Party, and Communists, swept to a landslide victory in New York's mayoralty victory, piling up more votes than all his opponents combined...

...Barkley said that "our task, as I see it, is to lay all the facts before the public, no matter whom they may hurt in high or low places, and we propose to conduct the inquiry accordingly...

...Dwight Eisenhower this week directed his unit commanders to improve the dress and behavior of American troops in Europe to prevent the Army from getting "a bad reputation...

...Strife At The Conference The nation's historic Labor-Management conference moved through its second week with several preliminary achievements to its credit...

...Homer Ferguson, Michigan, a Republican member of the Committee, pointed out that the President had merely "requested heads of departments to authorize their employes to volunteer information, whereas the Committee had asked him to "direct" the department heads to do so...

...In Boston, Rep...

...Husband E. Kimmel, naval commander at Pearl Harbor then...

...Bowles pointed out that farmers, even more than any other group in the nation, benefit from high wages to workers...

...Reps...

...1. The new law removes 12,000,000 low-income families from the income tax rolls altogether, reduces taxes for all other individuals, repeals the excess profits tax, lowers the normal corporation tax rates, repeals the $5-a-year automobile use tax, freezes Social Security taxes at their present one per cent for employer and employe, forgives all taxes on wartime pay of enlisted men, and grants commission officers three years in which to pay up...

...James Curley won the mayoralty free-for-all despite the fact that he is under indictment on charges of engaging in crooked dealings in connection with war contracts...

...Cancellation...

...Gerald P...

...The impasse between the United Automobile Workers and the automobile industry's Big Three—General Motors, Chrysler, and Ford—had reached the stage this week where the UAW's international executive board authorized a six-man strategy committee to "act as it may see fit" in the current dispute...

...Truman inserted a provision specifically stating that the employes are not to furnish files or written materials to individual Committee members...

...Young, Republican, in 1946...

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...The employment problem created by the reconversion of GI Joe to civilian status is not nearly so acute in the case of GI Jane...

...Another development in the national wage controversy was the strong stand taken by Chester A. Bowles, OPA chief, for the pending proposal for a 65-cents-an-hour minimum wage...

...1. * * * Reprimand...

...The CIO has insisted from the beginning that the conference agenda be broadened to include discussion of percentage wage increases...

...Nye's Plans...

...Thomas E. Dewey of New York, who is reported to have learned during the 1944 campaign, when he was the GOP candidate for President, that the late President Roosevelt knew in advance that the "sneak" Japanese attack was coming...

...William Green, AFL president, and Lewis are opposed to the CIO proposal...

...George E. Allen, political crony of President Truman, last week handed his chief a plan for liquidating emergency wartime agencies by June 30, 1946...

...The President's Order Also among the 48 early witnesses summoned to testify is Capt...

...O'Dwyer will succeed New York's colorful Fiorello La-Guardia, who was not a candidate for reelection...

...Cordell Hull, former Secretary of State, was this week awarded the Nobel peace prize for the part he played in laying the foundation for the United Nations Organization...

...Hoarding...

...GOP charges that the Administration was hampering the inquiry —some of which seemed amply supported by the facts—led Majority Leader Alben Barkley, Committee chairman, to issue a statement that the Committee will not "countenance any effort to keep from the public any facts material to the inquiry...

...Keefe, Wisconsin, and Gearhart, California, Republican members of the Committee, interviewed Kramer after having charged that the naval officer was being held incommunicado at the Bethesda (Md...

...Nye is expected to run against Sen...

...Of these it is estimated that 75 per cent had prewar jobs and were married while in service...

...Walter Short, Army commander at Pearl Harbor at the time of the attack...

...Lewis denounced the Murray resolution as "innocuous, feeble, and namby-pamby," and said it would limit labor's wage gains to the price advances of "a bottle of milk, a pair of shoes, or a straw hat...

...The White House order, amending a previous directive which had seemed to prohibit Federal officers from testifying, authorizes any Federal personnel having knowledge of the Pearl Harbor attack, to volunteer information to the Committee or any of its members...

...President Truman's instructions to Federal officials who might be summoned as witnesses also provided the starting point for another bitter argument...

...George C. Marshall, then and now Army Chief of Staff...

...President Truman last week signed into law the $5,920,000,000 tax reduction measure, thus assuring tax relief for individuals and corporations beginning Jan...

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...Tax Law...

...Prominent Figures Called Among the witnesses summoned to testify, Barkley said, are: Gov...

...Nuts," retorted Lewis...

...The march came as President Truman was conferring with Britain's Prime Minister Clement Attlee...

...Alwin D. Kramer, naval intelligence officer who received and delivered to higher authority intercepted Japanese code messages warning of the impending Japanese attack...

...Income on the farm, he said, "has followed with mathematical regularity the course of income in the cities...