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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Travail-France's C.I.O., claiming 3,500,000 members). The committee requested an interview to discuss France's electoral machinery, which leftists say gives the rural population a greater voice than city workers. The letter was signed by the C.G.T.'s burly, goateed Secretary General, Léon Jouhaux...
...Cried Léon Jouhaux's C.G.T.: De Gaulle's action was "authoritarian." Then, setting what might well be the leftist electoral line, it called on Frenchmen and Frenchwomen to vote "no" to the second question in the referendum...
...some 18 months, home builders have been held down by WPB's order L41 ; they could build no house that cost more than $8,000. When WPB swept out most of its restrictions at war's end, it also promised to drop L-41, at the end of this month. But last week, the construction industry was shocked to learn that L41 is far from dead. OPA was waging a rear guard action to keep the L41 restriction of $8,000 - or raise it to $12,000, at most - on all new private houses for another six months...
Lined up stoutly behind OPA was the National Housing Agency, the Office of Economic Stabilization and the A.F. of L. and C.I.O. They argued that only by keeping the price ceiling would badly needed cheap housing be built, a wild inflation in building be averted. Without a ceiling, a $6,000 house could easily sell for $12,000 in the present shortage. Furthermore, frantic bidding for prices of scarce materials would soon boost their prices out of sight, and further jack up building costs all down the line...
...Federal Works Agency, and the nation's contractors and real estate men, were just as grimly determined to dump L-41, scrap any other ceiling plan. Said they: 1) L41 is retarding normal building activity just when it is most needed; 2) the sooner the building industry gets going, the sooner it can hire the four to eight million workers it will need; 3) materials and labor will be so plentiful by the time the building boom gets under way next spring that competitive production alone will hold prices down. The whole price problem was of such prime importance...