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Died. Lewis Baxter Schwellenbach, 53, U.S. Secretary of Labor, ex-senator from Washington (1935-40), ex-judge of the District Court for Eastern Washington (1940-45); after long illness; in Washington, D.C. In 1945 at the urging of old friend and new President Harry Truman he took over from Frances Perkins the toothless, whittled-down Labor Department, soon found that liberal leanings and hard work were not enough to keep him from being the frustrated man in the middle of most postwar labor troubles...
...Women no longer work just for "pin money" or "something to do." Secretary of Labor Lewis B. Schwellenbach reported that 84 out of 100 women now work "to support themselves or others...
...Gadget. Since women acquired the vote, they had become a potent, if erratic, political force. Secretary of Labor Lewis B. Schwellenbach spoke them fair, pointed out that women now constitute 28% of the labor force (they are also 50.8% of the voting population). President Truman came, paid respectful tribute to the power of their purses,* had words of high praise for one woman: "Mrs. Roosevelt has made a wonderful contribution to the nation [in her work with U.N.] since the President died." (He added, disarmmgly: "He is the only one I ever think of as President...
...Labor Department prepared for mutilation. With the loss of its Conciliation Service, the Department was left with the Women's Bureau, the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the Wage and Hour Division, and a couple of minor sections. The crack-of-the-week in Washington was that Secretary Lew Schwellenbach is the only bureau chief in the capital who has cabinet status...
...Secretary of Labor Schwellenbach...