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Like most of you, I have been disturbed by the labor difficulties
of recent weeks. These difficulties stand in the way of reconversion;
they postpone the day when our veterans and displaced war workers can get
back into good peacetime jobs.
The American people are entitled to know now that this Government
stands for prosperity and jobs - not depression and relief. Passage of a
full employment bill will give the American people this assurance.
I wonder how many of you know that many war workers have already
had to take, or will soon have to take, a cut in their war-time pay by
one-quarter or more. Think of what such a decrease in your own income
would mean to you and to your families.
The change-over from a forty-eight to a forty hour week means a
decrease in take-home pay, the amount in the pay envelope. That decrease is
much more than just the loss of eight hours pay. Workers have been receiving
time and a half for overtime - for all the hours they worked over forty.
That overtime pay is now gone in the change to a forty hour week.
If nothing is done to help the workers in this situation, millions
of families will have to tighten their belts - and by several notches.
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