Wallace urges jobs authority
Milwaukee, Wisconsin (UP) –
“Jobs will be our number one economic problem the moment peace comes,” Vice President Henry A. Wallace said in an address here last night in which he proposed the creation of a jobs authority with responsibility and power subject only to the President and Congress.
He told an audience of 2,000 persons in the municipal auditorium:
We should have some sort of organization that can get at least as prompt action on behalf of jobs as the War Production Board got on behalf of fighting material.
Willkie makes disunity charge
Tacoma, Washington (UP) –
The Roosevelt administration has forfeited its right to moral leadership because “it has lost the sense of the importance of unity which has saved us in previous national crises,” Wendell Willkie declared last night.
Mr. Willkie told the Pierce Country Republican Club at a pre-Lincoln Day observance:
Only in the Republican Party can the nation reforge a feeling of national unity, strong enough to stand the tests that lie ahead of us.
He assured the administration of promoting disunity and cited as an example the recent railroad strike call which he said was brought on by the President’s “equivocal answers, broken promises and delaying tactics.”