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...Exhaustion" put Office of Defense Transportation Boss Joseph Eastman into a Washington hospital last week. His deputy, Brigadier General Charles D. Young, could not have been in much better shape. As the week wore on he struggled with Government bureaus, railroads and labormen to meet a manpower shortage estimated at 100,000 workers; ODT had to suspend 68 Central Railroad of New Jersey commuter trains to ease the manpower pinch on essential freight traffic. But the General also had to cope with the biggest glut of strictly nonessential Florida sun worshipers in history...
Bridges-baiters rejoiced. Labormen fumed. Said one labor leader: ". . . The first major victory of Hitler's spring offensive." In San Francisco Harry Bridges took the news with a smile. His lawyers readied an appeal to the Supreme Court, which (in a year or more) will finally rule on the real and thorny question: Does the Communist Party advocate the overthrow of the U.S. Government by force and violence? In short, is it really subversive...
...Mediation Board Mr. Roosevelt put four businessmen, four labormen, three representatives of "the public." But critics called the board a clumsy compromise in a situation which, they felt, called for something tough and full of teeth...
...Bevin, the Trades Union Congress and all British labor are working with British business is wonderful. In every business meeting I attended there were labormen present and active on the think level. Some labormen say the truce is only for the duration, that after the war business and labor will be fighting again. . . . But two things brought about this present cooperation:1) Hitler-when bombs started raining down, everyone got fighting mad, got together; 2) Britain's wartime leaders. Whatever Churchill's past mistakes, today he is the perfect rallying post. The cabinet is cohesive. And the King...
...Architect Franklin Roosevelt observed that the law was "the cornerstone in a structure which is being built, but is by no means complete." Last year the Senate Finance Committee, beset by the clamor of other architects to improve on the plans, commissioned an Advisory Council of 25-including employers, labormen, Government officials and consumers, chairmanned by Princeton Economist James Douglas Brown-to draw up plans for rebuilding the structure. Last week the Council handed back a much amended set of blueprints, designed to repair some of Social Security's major structural flaws...