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...Intelligent businessmen, many of whom are making more money than they intended or even hoped, usually welcome this invitation to renegotiate the contract at a lower price. If they don't, the board asks, in effect: How would you like to explain your profits to the Vinson or the Truman committee? Negotiation proceeds from there...
...Howard Smith, Carl Vinson, Thurman Arnold, and Ralph Bard, the anti-labor stampede would seem to revolve around the issue against the 40-hour week and the closed shop. Actually, it is much more than that. It is an extremely clever and back-handed attempt to kill Philip Murray's labor-management plan. These men who have been waging an "undeclared war" against labor on the floor of Congress and in the pages of the daily press are like scheming murderers who start a row in one part of town to cover up their real crime in another part...
...more concern to Winchell than Cissie Patterson's prayers were similar remarks made in Congress. House Naval Affairs Committeeman Melvin Maas declared that "Winchell should be assigned to duty at Samoa or permitted to resign." Naval Affairs Committee Chairman Carl Vinson asserted: "I can tell you right now that I have advised the Navy Department either to call him [Winchell] into active service or to disenroll...
Congress and the nation remembered that in World War I many corporations had made staggering profits out of ships and munitions.* For weeks Washington had been on the alert for the Vinson report, nerved itself this week to hear the report go off, dynamiting the profiteers of World...
Labor's Profits. The Vinson committee also collected the first official figures on the financial status of labor unions in the U.S. The committee questioned 162 unions-A.F. of L., C.I.O. and the large independents-got 117 answers...