Roosevelt asks post-war plan for Germany
Reported split called untrue
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‘Big Three’ fails to agree on new League
Discussions useful, statement says
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Roosevelt scores Argentine policy
Submission to Nazi influence denounced
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Perkins: Aluminum workers hit wage hike delay, point to ‘promise’
Business spokesman supports Roosevelt
By Fred W. Perkins, Pittsburgh Press staff writer
Washington –
An important question before President Roosevelt – whether several million working men and women shall have an immediate increase in their wages – was apparently made harder to answer today through a defense of the Roosevelt wage policy by a spokesman for “big business.”
John A. Stephens, a vice president of U.S. Steel Corporation, appeared as the defender of the policy, and seemingly put up to the President the responsibility for any change which might encourage a rise in prices to make the dollar look like 30 cents.
A lot of politics is involved. Among President Roosevelt’s principal supporters are the CIO unions foremost in the drive of organized labor to break the “Little Steel formula.” The presidential campaign is now in full swing, and the CIO leadership is pressing for recommendations from the War Labor Board to be in the White House by Oct. 15.
Murray wants action
Philip Murray, head of the CIO and the Steelworkers, objected to the wage cases being mixed up with national politics, but at the same time, he insisted on the Oct. 15 deadline. That date would allow three weeks before the election for Mr. Roosevelt to make up his mind – through discontent among his union supporters or of risking an inflationary move and also a charge from his Republican opponents of “using other people’s money” to hold the labor vote.
By a vote of 8 to 4, the Board refused to put a deadline on its deliberations but it promised a decision as soon as possible after that date.
Mr. Stephens used a simple device in defending the wage policy and of putting the responsibility for a change up to Mr. Roosevelt. He merely cited the principal statements of the President and his economic aides on the necessity of maintaining the stabilization plan until all danger of inflation is past. He noted that the war is not over, and that recent news indicates the end is not as close as had been hoped.
Quotes from speech
Mr. Stephens quoted from a speech Wednesday by James F. Byrnes, Director of War Mobilization:
On the whole, the line has been held and government should continue to hold it until the dangers of inflation are passed. If we do not preserve a stable economy, post-war deflation will ruin all hopes of post-war prosperity.
He also quoted Mr. Roosevelt, in his speech of last Saturday night:
The present policies of wages and prices were conceived to serve the needs of the great masses of the people. They stopped inflation. They kept prices at a stable level. Through the demobilization period, policies will be carried out with the same objective in mind – to serve the needs of the great masses of the people.
The distinctive feature of the present situation is that only one man can give the answer – Mr. Roosevelt.
Gracie Allen Reporting
By Gracie Allen
Hollywood, California –
Well, it seems I got a little mixed up yesterday in explaining the World Series baseball race. In the first place, the St. Louis Browns are not really named Brown at all; they have all sorts of names.
Some of the names they are called when they win in Detroit cannot be printed. In the second place, when they refer to the winning American League team “playing the Cards” they don’t mean gin rummy or poker.
The Cards are another baseball team, called the Cardinals. Where they get those names, I’ll never know.
There’s even a bunch in Brooklyn called the Dodgers. They must have a very lax Draft Board there.
Anyway, you can’t blame me for getting mixed up when full-grown baseball players go around calling themselves names like Cardinals, Dodgers, Giants and Tigers. I prefer professional football. Those teams have names like Cardinals, Dodgers, Giants – well, let it go.
Wallace takes stump backing fourth term in three speeches here
Vice President in New Kensington today, Uniontown tonight; major address tomorrow
By Kermit McFarland
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Suicide theory discounted by mother of farm boy
Youth had ‘no earthly reason’ to take his life, she testifies at socialite’s trial
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Poll: Military drill in peacetime still favored
Many organizations endorse proposal
By George Gallup, Director, American Institute of Public Opinion
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‘Cripes, it’s the old man!’ –
Patton inspects the front through enemy shellfire
Reporter rides behind ‘Blood and Guts’ and wishes he had stayed at home!
By John M. Carlisle, North American Newspaper Alliance
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