Taft Attacks Bretton Woods Pact Amid UN Charter Debate
Sen. Robert A. Taft assailed the Bretton Woods Monetary Agreement as a threat to U.S. sovereignty while acknowledging his bid to derail world cooperation is unlikely to succeed. He blamed public sentiment and called the nation "pathologically international" as his three hour attack argued against participation in global economic stabilization. His brother Charles Taft, a State Department official, was described as a propagandist in this line.
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Washington
Robert A. Taft
World Cooperation
Taft
Bretton Woods
Tait
United States
Charles Taft
State Department
Sen. Taft
Rankin Veterans Panel Shuts Out Discharged Vet
Reuben Schafer, a 32 year veteran and AFL Sign Pictorial & Display Union member from New York, sought a message with Rep. John E. Rankin at the House Veterans Committee. He was denied entry after Rankin refused comment and ordered him out as the room was private property, prompting Schafer to object to the dismissal as a political push.
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Mississippi
John E. Rankin
Reuben Schafer
1St Division
Rankin
Schafer
New York
Sign Pictorial & Display Union
AFL
Reuben
Germany
CIO Seeks Postwar Full Employment And Growth Plan
The CIO Executive Committee in Washington urges a broad national program to ensure full employment after the war. It backs the Murray-Patman Full Employment bill and calls for hearings, congressional support, and immediate action by President Truman to expand incomes, production, and economic security for workers including federal employees and merchant mariners.
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CIO
Washington
Japan
America
Murray-Patman
Senate Banking and Currency Committee
House Committee On
CIO International Union
CIO International
Congressional Committees
Congress
Truman
Vinson
Davis
National War Labor Board
Corps Get Tax Relief For Large Corporations
Senate Finance Committee approved tax relief averaging about 52 billion dollars annually for big corporations after House approval. The bill allows railroads to reorganize and use unused profit credits or losses from predecessor firms. It permits a 10 percent postwar credit on excess profits tax, accelerates refunds on prior losses, and raises the excess profits exemption from 10 thousand to 25 thousand dollars for 1946.
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Washington
Senate Finance Committee
House
Treasury
CIO PAC Adopts Six Point Program for National Relief
The CIO Politics Action Committee approved a six point campaign program including living cost wage revisions, 65 cent minimum wage, extended unemployment insurance, permanent FEPC funds, Murray Patman full employment and Wagner Murray Dinger social security bills, and support for San Francisco Charter and Bretton Woods. The group stresses unity with other labor and progressive groups and pledges support for President Truman while remaining independent and non partisan.
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San Francisco
Bretton Woods
Pres
Philip Murray
PAC
Sidney Hillman
Noted Objection to Aryan Supremacy Echoes After War
Philip Murray, president CIO, warns that returning servicemen should not face a land where race hate and Aryan supremacy are as strong as in Nazi Germany, urging vigilance against rising intolerance.
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Nazi Germany
Philip Murray
Cio
Bethlehem Steel Faces Spain Rail Sale Critique
CIO President Philip Murray cites a report that Bethlehem Steel planned to sell 100000 tons of steel rails to fascist Spain while the U S market needed rails. He says a corporation can earn more money by aiding enemies of the American people than selling to American railroads under price controls.
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Bethlehem Steel Corporation
Spain
United States
CIO
Philip Murray
Wages Drop Amid Rising Living Costs Warns CIO Board
The CIO Executive Board in Washington urges immediate federal action as unemployment rises and weekly wages fall due to reconversion to civilian production. It calls for emergency unemployment payments, revised wage policy, and stronger National War Labor Board authority to prevent wage cuts and sustain wartime and postwar production.
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CIO
Washington
National Wa Labor Board
National War Labor Board
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Merchant Marine
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FEPC
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Pres. Roosevelt
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