The Pittsburgh Press (February 10, 1944)
Brunswick’s plane plants hit despite frantic Nazi tactics
By Walter Cronkite, United Press staff writer
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Nazi shells rip narrow front but British and Yanks hold
By C. R. Cunningham, United Press staff writer
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Submarine hit, 34 planes blasted in air assault; Madang, New Guinea, may be evacuated
By Don Caswell, United Press staff writer
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Third attack in 10 nights on island reported
By the United Press
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USS Burns in Marshall carrier task force makes clean sweep with gunfire
By Malcolm R. Johnson, United Press staff writer
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Miss Perkins reports losses in man-days tripled in one year
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Washington (UP) –
President Roosevelt today nominated Joseph D. Nunan Jr. of Douglaston, New York, to be Commissioner of Internal Revenue, succeeding Robert E. Hannegan of St. Louis who resigned to become Democratic National Chairman.
Mr. Nunan has been collector of internal revenue in Brooklyn, New York.
Washington –
President Roosevelt will make a brief radio speech Saturday between 4:30 and 5:00 p.m. ET ceremonies during the transfer of a destroyer escort vessel to the French people.
3-way bargaining battle to have its opening round tomorrow
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Stench of decaying Jap bodies covers islands; ammunition dump blast signals end of 2-day fight
By Hal O’Flaherty
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By James E. Roper, United Press staff writer
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Federal jurists subjects of ‘persistent and serious charges’
By Robert Taylor, Press Washington correspondent
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Earlier arrogance is gone as record numbers surrender
By Charles P. Arnot, United Press staff writer
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Three federal ballot backers placed on Senate lineup
Washington (UP) –
The Senate today unanimously agreed to a compromise slate of conferees on soldier-vote legislation after anti-administration forces protested proposed selections which would have been four to one for a federal ballot measure.
The compromise slate included three Senators who voted for the federal ballot plan in the numerous Senate tests of the last two weeks and two who voted for a state ballot plan.
The compromise slate finally agreed upon after almost an hour of floor wrangling included Senators Warren R. Austin (R-VT), Hugh A. Butler (R-NE), Tom Connally (D-TX), Theodore F. Green (D-RI) and Carl A. Hatch (D-NM).
Senators Green, Hatch and Austin voted for the federal ballot in the Senate tests, and Senators Connally and Butler against it.
They will meet with five House conferees in an effort to settle differences between House and Senate versions of soldier-vote legislation.
Three House conferees are states’ rights proponents – Reps. John E. Rankin (D-MS), Karl M. LeCompte (R-IA) and Harris Ellsworth (R-OR). The other two – Chairman Eugene Worley (D-TX) of the House Elections Committee and Rep. Herbert C. Bonner (D-NC) – are federal ballot backers. In the conferees lineup, this shows five on each side of the question.
By Fred W. Perkins, Pittsburgh Press staff writer
Washington –
Feelers of the national political pulse are beginning to note symptoms of an extension into the 1944 presidential campaign of the AFL-CIO split in organized labor.
The CIO is steadily becoming more identified with a fourth-term drive for President Roosevelt, while the AFL is repeating and expanding criticisms of the administration.
For instance, the AFL’s weekly news service today, following up an attack by John P. Frey, president of the federation’s Metal Trades Department, blamed wartime labor troubles on the lack of “a clear and consistent national labor policy.”
The blunt truth
It continued:
The public should understand that most disputes which lead to strikes these days do not involve quarrels between management and labor. The blunt truth is that the fight is between labor and the government’s policy, as it is contradictorily administered by federal agencies.
The article concluded:
We still think that strikes under any circumstances are indefensible in wartime. But when workers are driven to strike under such conditions, the blame should be put where it belongs – on the government.
The CIO has made no such inclusive charges, although it has joined with the AFL in an attempt to discredit the cost of living figures of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, and to force an upward revision of the War Labor Board’s wage-freeze formula.
Now the MESA
Criticisms of the Roosevelt administration have also been made by spokesmen for large groups of organized workers not members of the AFL or CIO. These include the railway brotherhoods and John L. Lewis’ United Mine Workers.
A third group which asserts it isn’t being treated right is made up of independent unions built around the Mechanics Educational Society of America, now in a row with the War Labor Board over that body’s policy of confining labor representation in its membership to representatives of the AFL and the CIO.
These developments have produced the opinions in the minds of political observers that Mr. Roosevelt, if he is a nominee, cannot be sure of the great mass of labor support he has had in three campaigns; that if the labor-sponsored criticisms continue, the support for the two major candidates may be in approximate balance.