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...week's end. Labor's Non-Partisan League (John L. Lewis, chairman) groaned: "In a virtual tidal wave of reaction the Administration sponsored legislation that advances far along the totalitarian path of forced labor. . . . Unless the events of this terrible week can be reversed, it is clear that American democracy will soon become just another museum piece to be set on a shelf beside the former democracies of the Old World...
...resent the missionary zeal which that implies. Many issues of the greatest importance, such as problems of race and labor, and plans for a post war international order, we must work out on a slow and logical basis. I refuse to choose between Organizations with a Cause, and a non-partisan Union. We vitally need both. Hugh Barhour...
...days later Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau told the U.S. the other half. Mr. Morgenthau corralled the Congressional leaders, laid before them a stack of indigestible truths, told them to swallow hard. That afternoon he announced com plete non-partisan agreement on a tax program increasing present taxes one-third, to raise $3,444,000,000 in new revenue. He described the tax program as possibly the largest in world history, estimated that it will produce $12,667,000,000 - two-thirds of the total estimated 1942 expenditure...
Directing its objections primarily against the bill barring the Communist Party, which has been sponsored by the American Legion, the Liberal Union delegation joined several other protesting groups including the League of Women Voters, the Civil Liberties Union, the Communist and Socialist parties, and Labor's Non-Partisan League...
Clive Knowles, president of the Massachusetts State Laborers' Non-Partisan League, will talk, and Louis Torre, organizer for the Marine and Ship Builders' industrial union, which is now negotiating with Bethlehem Steel in the Fore River Ship Yards, is on the schedule...