World War II Policy Clash Over Japan Containment
In a New York report, Acheson rebukes Prince Higashi Kuni for urging Americans to forget Pearl Harbor. MacArthur tightens press censorship while planning a swift occupation exit. Eichelberger and others praise cooperation as debates over Japan’s future unfold.
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Cross Country Report
New York
United States
Japan
Prince Higashi-Kuni
Acheson
Pearl Harbor
MacArthur
Eichelberger
Eighth U. S. Army
Amalgamated Stock Drives Hit $2000 Mark
Amalgamated sales of stock in the Peppies Publishing Co. topped the $2000 mark this week. Arthur Hartman assistant manager of Amalgamated Clothing Workers and president of the CIO Industrial Union Council announced the figure. The Clothing Workers show marked interest in establishing a progressive weekly newspaper, as shown by their participation in the stock sales drive.
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Amalgamated
Peppies Publishing Co
Arthur Hartman
Amalgamated Clothing Workers
CIO Industrial Union Council
Rankin Bill Targeted Veterans as Strike Breakers
Washington Rep. Charles Savage denounces Rep. Rankin's plan to let veterans work without union ties, calling it a fascist measure aimed at breaking unions and worsening unemployment. Savage argues returning servicemen seek full employment for all workers, not a separate veteran class.
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Rankin Bill
Savage
Monger
John Rankin
Charles Savage
Washington
Congress
Rankin
West Coast
Savage Poo-Poohed
Europe
Rep. Savage
Hit
Negro Gains Are Periled in War to Reconversion
FEPC Chairman Malcolm Ross warned in New York that small wartime gains by Negroes and other minority workers are at risk of being wiped out during reconversion. At a conference with 300 representatives from 73 organizations he cited disturbing evidence of readiness to condemn minority workers to menial jobs as Japan collapsed and postwar reshaped industry.
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New York
Japan
Ross
FEPC
Bridges Obtains His Citizenship
President Harry Bridges of the International Longshoremen’s and Warehousemen’s Union CIO became a U.S. citizen in San Francisco last week. The decision ends a long campaign to deport him to Australia as an undesirable alien, following a June Supreme Court ruling that the government had no grounds for deportation.
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San Francisco
Harry Bridges
Int
Longshoremen’s & Warehousemen’s Union
CIO
Australia
Lloyd Garner
Bridges
U. S. Supreme Court
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