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...some respects, it was even tougher than the House version which the Education and Labor Committee had tried to eviscerate. Committeemen like elderly Senator Elbert Thomas, James E. Murray, James M. Tunnell, Joseph Guffey, Claude Pepper, were routed. The driving forces were Senator Taft and Minnesota's Joe Ball, both pressing for permanent labor legislation which would correct the in equities of the well-meaning but lopsided Wagner...
...Weary committeemen conceded that the bill was not perfect. But it was so much better than anyone had hoped for that even the most critical scientist looked fairly pleased...
Freedom of the press was the clearest example. Liberal-Catholic MRP committeemen wanted a "guarantee" that it would not be tampered with, considered a slight case of press control as dangerous as a slight case of cancer. Communists and Socialists feared a return to France's prewar corrupt press standards, which reached the reeking point in the '30s when Le Matin and other papers sold out to the Germans. The Communist Humanité tiraded against allowing the press to be controlled by the wealthy, warned that "trusts" must not "dominate public opinion contrary to real freedom...
...Committeemen who made the study had reported that in 1939 profit-sharing companies formed "islands of 'peace, equity, efficiency and contentment,' and likewise prosperity, dotting an otherwise turbulent industrial map, all the way across the continent." To Mrs. Luce, these words still sounded more promising than anything yet said...
Nothing at All. Of the three Senate committeemen who blocked the President's proposal for fact-finding and cooling-off periods in labor disputes, none could be called a reactionary. Montana's James E. Murray opposed it because his view coincides with the C.I.O.'s, whose leaders are solidly against the measure. Utah's scholarly Elbert D. Thomas, a painstaking legislator, likes to think twice before he makes a law. Arkansas' J. William Fulbright, one of the heroes of the old anti-isolationist debates, thought "fact-finding" did not go far enough, that unions must...