Potsdam Big Three News Not Yet Decided on Key Issues
World analysis notes no formal statements from Potsdam until the Allied leaders settle crucial questions. Stalin’s Moscow talks with Soong likely influence Far East policy and Japan’s surrender timing amid Western optimism and ongoing military pressure. France Belgium Spain sections cover De Gaulle referendum opposition, Leopold’s throne fate, and Franco’s forthcoming restoration of monarchic rule.
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Stalin
Moscow
T. V. Soong
Potsdam
Japan
Ardennes
Auto Leader Would Save War Plants
YPSILANTI Michigan Ex cess war plants slated for destruction are needed for full peacetime employment and can be efficiently operated to produce needed goods Walter R Reuther vice president of United Auto Workers CIO says in a reconversion plan He proposes government set up public corporations to lease plants to industrialists or to let workers cooperatives run them Civilians paid for the plants in war bonds and fighting men in blood and should not be closed to repay civilians and veterans in unemployment
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Ypsilanti
Mich
Walter R. Reuther
United Auto Workers
CIO
UAW
Willow Run
Cadillac
Ford
Reuther
Tennessee Valley Authority
Belgian King Admitted Ad dition Denied by Leopold
Parliament bars the King’s return to Belgium and extends regency to his brother Prince Charles after Leopold refuses to join. USO canteen marks over 250000 service members celebrating with AFL CIO and railroad unions sponsoring the event. Alvin Johnson warns against leaving postwar fate to manufacturers.
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Leopold
Belgium
Prince Charles
Uso-Labor
AFL, Cio and
Railroad Brotherhoods
Betrayal Charged As Printing Strike Ends At Lakeside Press
Six AFL unions and R R Donnelly Lakeside Press saw a six week strike end after pressmen accepted a 24 hour ultimatum from international president Berry. While some unions returned, others balked and described Berry's move as a betrayal. the dispute involved ITU, Photo Engravers, Machinists, Book Binders, Lithographers, and Mailers unions.
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Chicago
AFL
R. R. Donnelly
Lakeside Press
Antl Printing Pressmen & Assistants
International
George L. Berry
the International
Labor Unity Moves to Channel Politics for Year Round Action
Minneapolis report notes AFL unions creating a United Labor Committee as a permanent political action group with a year round office. CIO and railroad unions join, backing a program with wage and hour reforms and extended coverage. Senators Mead Pepper Wagner Guffey Kilgore Thomas Magnuson Myers and Rep Hook sponsor the labor bill in Congress.
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AFL
United Labor Committee
CIO
Railroad
Farmer-Labor
Neilie Stone
Hubert H. Humphrey Jr
Pres
Robert Wishart
Dist. 11
United Electrical Radio & Machine Workers (Cio
Board of Public Welfare
Senate
James Mead
D, N.Y
Claude Pepper
D, Fla
Robert Wagner
James Murray
Mont
Joseph Guffey
Harley Kilgore
W.va
Elbert Thomas
Utah
Dennis Chaves
N.M
Warren Magnuson
Id. Wash
Francis J. Myers
D. Pe
Proposals Seek New Federal Wage Floor in Congress
Washington reports identical bills in the House and Senate to raise the minimum wage from 40 cents to 65 cents an hour for about 100 million U S workers. The plan would set a 44 hour work week in year one and begin time and a half after that.
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U. S
House
Senate
CIO PAC Backs 65-Cent Hourly Minimum Wage Bill
The CIO Political Action Committee will launch a nationwide campaign similar to last year’s effort to back a bill in Congress establishing a 65 hourly minimum wage. Chairman Sidney Hillman announced the move.
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New York
CIO Political Action Committee
Congress
Sidney Hillman
Equal Rights Amendment Resisted by Labor Groups
The House Judiciary reported out HJ Res. 49 calling for amending the Constitution to guarantee equality of rights by sex. Opponents include the Women's Trade Union League CIO Women’s Auxiliaries YMCA and the U S Department of Labor Women’s Bureau. A minority report warns the measure could nullify existing and future laws favoring women and threaten protections such as seating requirements in workplaces.
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Washington
House
Women’s Trade Union League
CIO Women’s Auxiliaries
YMCA
Women’s Bureau
U. S. Department of Labor
U. S
Amendment winds through debate amid war homefront calls
Debate on an amendment shows many supporters miss that it would not grant equal rights. They seek delay until veterans return. The solicitor of the Department supports protection for families, urging enforcement of prohibitions on profanity in female presence and laws covering rape, seduction, and age of consent. Custody bias in divorce and separation is urged to favor wives.
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Armed Services
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Soong
Russia
Soviet Union
Far East
France
de Gaulle
Consultative Assembly
General de Gaulle
Chamber of Deputies
Pierrot
Spain
Franco
N. Y. Herald Tribune
Pyrenees
Philip II
General Franco
Auto Leader
God
National Association of Manufacturers
Alvin Johnson
Herbert
Westbrook
NLRB
Donnelly
Life
Time
Telephone
Sears Roebucke
Minneapolis
Frank Hook
D. Mich
PAC
Ment of Labor
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