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...Fairly constant employment" more nearly expressed the postwar expectations of the 3,000 businessmen present than did the "full employment" bespoken by the Chamber's ebullient, optimistic (and reelected) president, Eric A. Johnston of Spokane. President Johnston's thesis: full employment is absolutely necessary if the peace is to be won. On this haunting subject the businessmen ranged from agreement with Johnston to approval of the Los Angeles Chamber's Frank P. Doherty: "Full employment is possible only in a slave state." But most of them were willing to let Johnston do their phrasemaking...
Also, everywhere, on Franklin Roosevelt's second secret inspection trip of World War II, were politicians and Governors: South Carolina's Olin D. Johnston, Georgia's Ellis Arnall, Alabama's Chauncey Sparks, Tennessee's Prentice Cooper, Arkansas' Homer Adkins, Oklahoma's Robert Kerr...
They saw the light. Into the White House trudged William Green of A.F. of L., Phil Murray of C.I.O., Alvanley Johnston of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers. When they came out, they had decided to stop hooking wages to the soaring cost of living. Now organized labor will try to hold wages level, and work at the other end, to cut down h.c.l...
...Eric Johnston saw no reason why the U.S. should lose its traditional balance between Government and free enterprise. "American business and industrial management has made its mistakes, but it has also demonstrated and is demonstrating in the war effort its great capacities. It must think in terms of the fifth decade of the 20th Century. . . . The most urgent of its responsibilities is to provide more equal opportunity for production, for employment and for economic self-improvement...
...Washington, Johnston's speech went largely unnoticed. But from the country came congratulatory telegrams (from a tobacco company in Virginia an order for 3,000 copies, reminiscent of the fantastic demand, totaling hundreds of thousands, for reprints of his Readers' Digest article of February titled "Your Stake in Capitalism"). On the West Coast, politicos predict that Johnston in 1944 may unseat Senator Homer Bone of Washington. With a reputation established for driving a middle road between business and Government, Johnston is already political material...