Price increases amid OPA shifts propose new wage push
The piece argues the Truman admin will push another wage hike within 60 days to spur production as price controls relax. It criticizes unions, notes CPI effects, and urges labor to boost output to raise real wages through competitive markets rather than inflationary wage pushes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Truman
Congress
OPA
Agriculture
Anderson
Paul Porter
CIO
Auto Workers
Debates Over War Assets Agency Surplus Property
Washington lawmakers press the Small Business committee to air WAA surplus property sales including the Utah Geneva plant disposal to US Steel. They seek civilian leadership, restructuring, and a new distribution pattern to prevent monopoly and support veterans and the economy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
WNA Service
Eye Street
N.W
Washington
D. C
War Assets Administration
White House
Mead Committee On
Geneva
Utah
United States Steel Corporation
Colorado Fuel and Iron Corporation
Rockies
Chenoweth
Colorado
Small Business Committee
Murray
Aluminum Company of America
Stuart Symington
Egypt
WAA
Seniority Clash as La Follette Reform Sparks Democratic Anxiety
The piece argues the reorganization act fails to end seniority and preserves an incumbent chaired system. It notes that only two northern Democrats, Walsh and Wagner, would keep chairmanships under a modernized Congress, shifting power to the South and increasing committee influence with larger staffs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
la Follette
Congress
Democratic Party
Senator la Follette
Senate
Walsh
Massachusetts
Wagner
New
Strike Front Spreads Across Meat and Industry Crises
Households scoured neighborhoods for scarce meat while producers and feeders face shortages under OPA policy. The strike wave includes 25 000 IBT members in New York demanding market restoration and wage gains. Alberta farmers halt most sales, urging higher parity prices as costs rise. Government studies suggest late fall grass feds may ease shortages.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Department of Agriculture
International Brotherhood of Teamsters
New York City
IBT
Dan Tobin
O’dwyer
Vets’ government life insurance lapses rise to billions
Washington reports more than 10 million World War II veterans allowed VA life policies to lapse, with face value around 9 billion? no, 9,000? Actually nine thousand per policy? The VA notes 2.7 million kept policies in force and 430,000 converted to ordinary plans. The lapse total is about 90 billion dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Veterans’ Administration
Bedside Tables Of Orange Crates
An article explains using orange crates as bedside tables with oilcloth gingham and muslin frills to harmonize with a bedspread and lamps. It notes covering rough wood, and references instructions in BOOK 7 for crate covers and BOOK 9 for monogram fabric strips, with books priced 15 cents postpaid.
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Western Newspaper Union
Small Business
Robert Littlejohn
Bankhage
Poland
Siberia
Lublin
American Red Cross
Russia
York
AFL Amalgamated
LABOR
Teamsters Revolt
Tobin
New York
New Jersey
Canada
Alberta Farmers’ Union
Saskatchewan
Pittsburgh
Ernment Insurance
America
Ruth Wyeth Spears
Bedford Hills
N. Y
ROYAL
Motion Pictures
Arizona Motion Picture Corp
Valley OF the Sun Motion Picture
P. O
Phoenix
Ariz
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