Labor: Seek Peace in Wartime Wage Clashes
Secretary Schwellenbach moves to use emergency powers as CIO wage demands threaten reconversion and stabilization. Oil, auto, farm equipment, and steel unions push for 40 hour to wartime overtime pay, while major producers back raises amid price controls. UAW seeks 30 percent boosts as oil workers strike looms. MacArthur and Truman debate occupation force size and demobilization timing.
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Lewis Schwellenbach
CIO
Schwellenbach
Midwest
United Automobile Workers
R. J. Thomas
Labor Department
War Labor Board
War Manpower Commission
United States Employment Service
Demobilization Plans Cut Army Release Points and Officers
General George C. Marshall outlined a stepped up demobilization plan reducing discharge points to 60 by November 1 from 70 on October 1 and shaving officer discharges to 75. He spoke to 300 congressmen, confirming MacArthur’s Japan occupation estimate of 200,000 next summer while Eisenhower’s 400,000 for Germany remains unchanged. He attributed current release rates to facilities and said all GIs without Army work would be freed in three to four weeks, with potential further releases for two year veterans.
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George C. Marshall
Marshall
MacArthur
Japan
Eisenhower
Germany
High Point
Postwar Building Lid Off Aims to Speed Construction
Postwar agencies remove controls to accelerate home building while containing costs. Officials target 500000 private dwellings next year and 800000 in 1948, seeking more building materials, wage and price boosts, and bottleneck relief. Inventory controls tighten to curb hoarding as OPA plans stricter material pricing. Federal credit agencies push to discourage loose financing amid high postwar demand and employment prospects.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
OPA
Retail Pricing Absorb Increases During Reconversion
OP Administrator Chester Bowles reaffirmed that dealers must absorb any manufacturing-cost rises in the reconversion period. He rejected claims this is uneconomic, noting profits surged with higher volume and lower costs. He cited department store margins of 1% prewar, 12% in 1944, and outlined policy allowing some manufacturer price bumps while capping profits.
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Chester Bowles
Bowles
OPA
Long Flight Across Great Circle Tests Weather Route
A 25 hour 43 minute three B 29 mission from northern Japan ends in Chicago for refueling after a 5995 mile test of the great circle route. Maj. Gen Curtis E LeMay leads the planes. they fall 1100 miles short of the Egypt to Australia non stop record.
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Japan
Chicago
U. S
Washington, D. C
Industry Takes Kinder View of Oldsters After Wartime Shortage
A Northwestern National Life Insurance survey finds older workers rewarded by broader postwar employment, with age limits eroded during the war and likely to remain relaxed in many fields. Employers favor reliable older workers over net wartime recruits, seeking loyalty and steadiness in the postwar labor market.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Northwestern National Life Insurance Company
Navy Two Ocean Dimension Proposed at House Hearing
Naval chiefs urged a two ocean fleet nearly five times larger than the Pearl Harbor era. Secretary Forrestal and Fleet Admiral King backed 300 ships active, 100 ready reserve, 680 laid up but seaworthy, with 500000 enlisted and 58000 officers for the active force. They also proposed bases across the Pacific and Atlantic routes including Hawaii, the Aleutians, Canal Zone, Guam, Saipan, Tinian, Bonin islands, Philippines, Argentina, Bermuda and Trinidad.
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Naval Chiefs
House Naval Committee
Secretary of the Navy
Forrestal
King
U. S
Navy
Pacific
Aleutians
Hawaii
Canal Zone
Guam
Saipan
Tinian
Bonin- Volcano Island
Admiralties
Philippines
Atlantic
Argentina
Newfoundland
Bermuda
Trinidad
Atomic test planned on battleship Nagato offshore Japan
Washington prepared to test atomic bomb effects on surface ships 500 miles off Japanese shores. The target is the Nagato, famed for its 14 inch armor, to see underwater impact and guide postwar ship redesigns after Mitchell’s 1923 bombardment.
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Washington, D. C
Billy Mitchell
Virginia
Nagato
Mitchell
Pretty Vestees For Classrooms From Sewing Circle
OTS warm sweaters are sought for high school and college girls to wear on campuses and in chilly classrooms. Vestees shown include a soft wool top under-the-coat design and a white crocheted hearts and flowers model with glowing color embroidery. Gold buttons will enhance the look. Complete knitting instructions for Button-Over Vestee Pattern No. 5289 and crocheting instructions are available.
Hare in the Moon Legend in Japanese Culture
The article notes the moon’s intimate place in Japanese life with a yearly early March celebration of its birthday. It describes a moon hare bedecked with jewels seen within the moon’s imagery.
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Ieee
Austria
LABOR
Douglas MacArthur
Tokyo
Harry S. Truman
Dean Acheson
Truman
State Department
Acheson
Great Circle
Belsen
Lueneburg
Department of Commerce
United States
New York State
Nevada
Lissen
Gert
Tim Maloney
Cunnihan & Jones
Ganz, Snaffy
Crummie
Lefty
Bizzle
P.S
J. P. Morgan
Glen Cove
Amtorg
Russian Purchasing Commission
America
Morgan
HiPhillipp
Oldsters
Francis Strohl
Strohl
Lawton, Pa
Hearts and Flowers
Sewing Circle
South Wells St
Joseph Spiiri Asairin
Allegis Rice
Hendrgy Kellogg’s
Fram Oil & Motor Cleaners
Mee LI Sloan
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