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...Congressional formula for forestalling the impending strike-wave and creating industrial peace appears to be to take over the NAM program, reword it, and attempt to foist as much of it on the unions as is compatible with the Republican ambitions for 1948. One of the major impediments to Congressional action is the dispute between Speaker Martin and Senator Taft as to whether the foisting should be done piecemeal or it toto...
Republican leaders and the NAM aim to "equalize" bargaining power--to restore the pristine purity in industrial relations which existed before the Wagner Act. They assume that the scales are weighted in favor of labor and that in order to secure "balance" it is necessary to abolish industry-wide bargaining, the closed shop and institute close government supervision of the finances of unions...
...Here France battles the Viet Nam Republic...
Last March, France recognized the Indo-Chinese "free state" of Viet Nam (the provinces of Tonkin and Annam) within the French Union. But this was not enough. The Vietnamese wanted to incorporate the southern province of Cochin China, because, they said, its people were mainly Annamese. The French agreed to hold an election to ascertain the wishes of the Cochin Chinese. Meanwhile, separatist agitation in Cochin China must stop. The Vietnamese tartly replied that if the separatist case was not properly presented, the election would be unfair. Ho & Vo. Viet Nam is headed by Ho Chih-minh (He Who Enlightens...
...have built up the Vietnamese army to about 100,000, outnumbering the French local force of 80,000. Viet Nam got some mortars and French 755 from the Japs, and has been manufacturing its own small arms. The Vietnamese have been trained by cooperative Japanese officers...