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Labor's good friend Franklin Roosevelt had already used armed troops against labor (TIME. June 16). For future action, if necessary, he indicated that he wanted a Congress-made club, and Congress was more than ready to oblige him. The Senate passed the Connally amendment to the draft act, which gave the President specific authority to seize defense plants when mediation fails and a labor dispute threatens to tie up the arms program. Already passed by the House was a gigantic Army appropriation bill with a provision that not one nickel of the money should go to companies...
...sign that the President may be willing to work with Congress was his handling last week of the "draft property" bill, dubbed by Washington the "seize-send" bill for its sweeping provisions. The bill gave the President the right to take over permanently or temporarily any property of any kind which could be used to further national defense. (Compensation would be fixed by the President; an owner could sue, if displeased, would be paid 75% of the President's price, pending the outcome of the suit...
...President had his Dutch up at last when he yanked out one of the biggest clubs in his closet. As 2,000 C.I.O. workers walked out of the Aluminum Co. of America plant in Cleveland, an order came from Brigadier General Lewis B. Hershey, deputy director of the draft, that henceforth "the citizen who has been deferred because of the job he is performing in the national defense program cannot expect to retain the status of deferment when he ceases to work on the job for which he was deferred." In World War I President Wilson issued a similar order...
...Front. A bag of rice-one of many -was loaded one night last week on a drab, shallow-draft river steamer on the Yangtze River at Chungking. The boat cast off its moorings and rushed downstream on the treacherous current. About 250 miles downstream the terrain suddenly seemed to explode: the river became a narrow torrent, the hills convulsed into forbidding mountains...
Chorus of The Ballad of October 16 (draft registration date...