Mobilization and Demobilization Problems: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Military Affairs, United States Senate, Seventy-eighth Congress, Second Session, on S.1730, a Bill to Create an Office of Demobilization, Establish General Policies for the Operation of that Office, Provide for the Settlement of Claims Arising from Terminated War Contracts, Provide for the Disposal of Surplus Government Property, and for Other Purposes; S.1823, a Bill to Establish an Office of War Mobiliation and Adjustment, Parts 1-16U.S. Government Printing Office, 1944 - 1358 pages |
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... result is confusion among the executive agencies of Government and uncertainty on the part of business , labor , and agriculture . Today , there is no clear policy on war production cut - backs . There is no adequate policy on the ...
... result is confusion among the executive agencies of Government and uncertainty on the part of business , labor , and agriculture . Today , there is no clear policy on war production cut - backs . There is no adequate policy on the ...
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... result of this delay was the waste of manpower , the waste of facilities , the waste of resources and the overwhelming costs of these various wastes , not only to the Government but to the economy as a whole . Labor early supported a ...
... result of this delay was the waste of manpower , the waste of facilities , the waste of resources and the overwhelming costs of these various wastes , not only to the Government but to the economy as a whole . Labor early supported a ...
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... result from lack of planning and coordination are often worse than the muddles them- selves . Consider the hopeless tangle arising out of the conflicting manpower demands of the services , of industry , and of agriculture . Failure to ...
... result from lack of planning and coordination are often worse than the muddles them- selves . Consider the hopeless tangle arising out of the conflicting manpower demands of the services , of industry , and of agriculture . Failure to ...
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... result in the first large - scale in- telligent attack on the problem of reconversion . Before discussing certain charges I would recommend in S. 1823 to take care of the special problem of railroad labor , I want to summarize my own ...
... result in the first large - scale in- telligent attack on the problem of reconversion . Before discussing certain charges I would recommend in S. 1823 to take care of the special problem of railroad labor , I want to summarize my own ...
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... result , we hold back today a 150 - car train for 3 or 4 stations because there is no side track big enough to hold them and we don't want to saw by a streamlined passenger train , causing delay . That means we get in between the ...
... result , we hold back today a 150 - car train for 3 or 4 stations because there is no side track big enough to hold them and we don't want to saw by a streamlined passenger train , causing delay . That means we get in between the ...
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Administrator Admiral RAMSEY Aeronautical aircraft industry airplanes Army benefits bill Brewster Aeronautical Corporation BYRNES cancelation CHAIRMAN CHAPMAN REVERCOMB civilian production COHEN Congress contract termination contracting agency contractor Corsair cost cut-backs demobilization Director disposal economic effect employees equipment established facilities funds going Government agencies Justice Byrnes labor LAGUARDIA LATIMER legislation Long Island City manufacturers materials ment Military Affairs Mobilization Navy Department necessary Office operations over-all payment peacetime percent period planes plans present President problem Production Board question reconversion representatives require Senator AUSTIN Senator GURNEY Senator HILL Senator JOHNSON Senator KILGORE Senator MURRAY Senator REVERCOMB statement subcommittee subcontractors surplus property Surplus War Property tion unem unemployed unemployment compensation United UNITED STATES SENATE wages War Department War Manpower Commission War Production Board Washington week workers
Popular passages
Page 631 - SEC. 404. The committee shall have the power, without regard to the civil-service laws and the Classification Act of 1923, as amended...
Page 326 - The Administrator shall be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, and shall receive compensation at the rate of $10,000 a year.
Page 633 - ... (12) service performed in the employ of an instrumentality wholly owned by a foreign government — (A) if the service is of a character similar to that performed in foreign countries by employees of the United States Government or of an instrumentality thereof; and (B) if...
Page 642 - American aircraft under a contract of service which is entered into within the United States...
Page 633 - wages" means all remuneration for employment, including the cash value of all remuneration paid in any medium other than cash ; except that such term shall not include...
Page 627 - He does not belong to a grade or class of workers of which, immediately before the commencement of the stoppage, there were members employed at the premises at which the stoppage occurs, any of whom are participating in or financing or directly interested in the dispute.
Page 331 - ... (b) It shall be the function of the Director of the Office of Defense Mobilization to advise the President concerning the coordination of military, industrial, and civilian mobilization, including — (1) policies concerning industrial and civilian mobilization in order to assure the most effective mobilization and maximum utilization of the Nation's manpower in the event of war...
Page 184 - Senate, to be appointed by the President of the Senate, and five Members of the House of Representatives, to be appointed by the Speaker of the House of Representatives.
Page 335 - If any provision of this Act, or the application of such provision to any . person or circumstance, shall be held invalid, the remainder of this Act, or the application of such provision to persons or circumstances other than those as to which it is held invalid, shall not be affected thereby. SEC. 16. This Act may be cited as the "National Labor Relations Act.
Page 274 - ... (c) Section 104 (h) of the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954, as amended (Public Law 480, Eighty-third Congress; 7 USC 1704) is amended by changing the period at the end thereof to a comma and adding...