Labor battle tests wartime wage goals and demobilization
Secretary Schwellenbach moves into the labor front with CIO wage demands challenging reconversion, price controls, and 40 hour work week boosts. oil strikes threaten fuel supply as UAW plans to enforce 20 percent increases by targeted company walkouts amid wartime profits claims. MacArthur, Truman, and Acheson debate occupation size and demobilization as Japan co operates and demobilization plans hinge on war economy erasure.
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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
Marshall unveils stepped up demobilization plan
General George C. Marshall outlines a faster demobilization schedule cutting discharge points to 60 on November 1 and officers to 75. He notes occupation force estimates for Japan at 200,000 by next summer, and Eisenhower’s Germany figure at 460,000 remains unchanged. He says releases depend on facility availability and all GIs without useful work will be freed in 3 to 4 weeks, with potential further changes as winter nears.
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George C. Marshall
Marshall
MacArthur
Japan
Eisenhower
Germany
High Point
Postwar Building Lid Off Sparks Construction Push
With removal of building controls, agencies look to speed up construction while containing costs during reconversion. Officials target 500000 private dwellings next year and 800000 in 1948, seeking more materials, wage and price boosts, and priority handling to clear bottlenecks. Inventory controls will curb hoarding and artificial shortages. OPA to tighten price controls on building materials as federal credit agencies warn against easy financing amid booming postwar home demand and employment outlook.
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OPA
Absorb Increases Under OPA Policy For Reconversion Period
OP Administrator Chester Bowles reiterated that retailers must absorb any manufacturing cost increases during reconversion. He rejected claims absorption is uneconomic and noted profits rose with higher volume and lower costs. He cited department store margins rising from 1 percent (1936–39) to 12 percent in 1944 while allowing limited increases for manufacturers.
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Chester Bowles
Bowles
OPA
Industry Takes Kindlier View of Oldsters in Postwar Hiring
Industry surveys show older workers will have broader postwar employment opportunities due to their solid wartime performance as pinch hitters. Training and recruitment will favor the 20 to 30 age group at many large firms, with a shift away from prewar age limits. Loyal, dependable older workers are preferred after wartime experience.
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Northwestern National Life Insur
Navy Two Ocean Dimension Plans Large Fleet Resume
Navy chiefs propose a two ocean force roughly five times larger than before Pearl Harbor. Secretary Forrestal and Fleet Admiral King back 300 ships active, 100 in ready reserve, 680 laid up but seaworthy. 600,000 enlisted and 68,000 officers needed for 800 active ships and planes, 815,000 for entire fleet. Bases favored across Pacific Aleutians Hawaii Canal Zone Guam Saipan Tinian Bonin Islands Philippines and Atlantic posts including Argentina Newfoundland Bermuda Trinidad.
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Secretary of the Navy
Forrestal
King
U. S
Navy
Pacific
Aleutians
Hawaii
Canal Zone
Guam
Saipan
Tinian
Bonin- Volcano Island Group
Admiralties
Philippines
Atlantic
Argentina
Newfoundland
Bermuda
Trinidad
Atomic Test On Battleship Nagato Planned Off Japan
Washington plans a test of an atomic bomb’s effect on surface ships 500 miles off Japanese shores targeting the battleship Nagato with 14 inch armor. The test mirrors earlier Mitchell experiments on ship redesigns and seeks underwater impact data as well as surface blast effects.
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Washington, D. C
Billy Mitchell
Virginia
Nagato
Mitchell
16th Child Born To Crwton Family Blasts Records
Mrs. Francis Strohl of Crwton Pennsylvania delivered her sixteenth child an 18 pound baby girl. The infant ranks among the heaviest in local memory, with a 25 pounder born in 1916 once topping the record. The family reports the mother is 38 years old.
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Francis Strohl
Strohl
Crwton
Long Flight Across Great Circle Ends in Chicago Refuel
In a 25 hour 43 minute test flight the B 29 trio from northern Japan landed in Chicago after 5 995 miles to refuel, led by Maj Gen Curtis E LeMay, short of the world non stop record. A separate German war crimes trial at Lueneburg details Nazi internment abuse and mass deaths at Belsen concentration camp during the trial. US 1944 income payments rose to a high of 148 billion dollars with New York receiving the largest share and Nevada the smallest.
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Japan
Chicago
U. 8
Washington, D
Kamehatka
Alaska
Canada
U. S
Curtis E. le May
Egypt
Australia
Belsen
Lueneburg
Germany
Department of Commerce
United States
New York State
Nevada
Postwar crime wave warning from Hoover analysis
FBI Director J Edgar Hoover warns that any postwar crime surge hinges on national conversion to peacetime norms. He cites teen crime, gangster revival, veteran reintegration, and economic strain as drivers, but stresses parental and community responsibility alongside law enforcement in preventing crime.
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United States
FBI
J. Edgar Hoover
Europe
England
Wales
Hoover
Armed Services
Army
Barbs and old wartime odds and ends
A column stringing together holiday mail urgency and aging demographics references a 1040 census era productive age group and projected 1970 spendings, noting German troop transport limits in Holland and civilians clearing loot. It ends with a brief mention of canned sandwiches.
Farm wage delirium in postwar economy unease
Washington report notes Maine senator Brewster pressing Assistant Secretary Moran on farm labor shortages in Aroostook County and the gap between farm and war industry wages. Moran suggests moving workers. broader issue: returning war workers resist farm wages, risking higher food costs. Also covers Mrs. Pauley’s role and tensions in postwar diplomacy and congressional recess changes.
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Washington
Ralph Brewster
Maine
Carl Moran
Portland
Brewster
Moran
Aroostook County
Tabor
Labor Department
Miss Perkins
War Labor Board
U. S. Employment Service
War Manpower Commission
Aroostook
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