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...first time, the New Deal theory of government could not count on a majority on Capitol Hill: the Administration would hesitate to risk any new legislation. But most Republicans want to hold their fire on the New Deal until 1944: there would be no serious attempts to repeal laws on the books...
...time when the drive for repeal of the Wagner Act is already well under way, a small section of labor has been so reckless as to draw public condemnation upon the entire industrial organization movement. The first in months to violate labor's anti-strike pledge, the union is no run-of-the-mill union, but rather John L. Lewis' own United Mine Workers. This is not the usual workers vs. management strike; instead it is a rank and file revolt against autocratic union leadership which railroaded through the recent dues increase...
...work week ran up to 55 hours. But in the consumer industries the average work week was below 40 hours, indicating a vast untapped work potential in the consumer, and especially the service fields. So embedded was the 40-hour-week law in the whole wage structure that its repeal might create more problems than it would solve. But the fact remained that the U.S. while talking "total war" was still fighting on an average overall work week of only 42 hours, as against 50 hours for a heroic Britain...
...Complete overhauling of the Federal tax system, after study by a nonpartisan commission of Government and private experts. Recommended changes: 1) reduction or repeal of taxes on corporation income (which in a free market should be a just return for risks taken and jobs provided); 2) "a new (and better) undistributed profits tax" designed to keep corporations from hoarding money instead of putting it to productive use; 3) personal income taxes on a graduated scale, but never becoming so high as to prevent individuals from saving and investing their money; 4) a high - perhaps confiscatory -inheritance...
Marna Angell's, "Agenda for Victory" falls far below the publication's usual calibre. She assumes that repeal of the poll tax will "assure" more progressive Congressmen from the South, and that labor-management committees will endure unchallenged after the war. Similar unsupported statements scattered through her essay rob it of any real value...