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OCR Page 1 of 10CRAVIONAL
ARCHIVES AND
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SERVICE
SECOND DRAFT
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TO THE CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES:
All who think seriously about the problem of reconversion -
of changing our economy from werr to peace - realize that the
transition is a difficult and dangerous task. There are some who
would have the Government, during the reconversion period, continue
telling our citizens what to do, as was so often necessary when the
very life of our nation was at stake during the period of world
conflict.
That however is not the polioy of the Government. The policy
REMOVE
is
to necersery wartime controls as repidly as possible,
and to return the free management of business to those concerned
with it.
It was for the express purpose of getting away a.s soon as
possible from some of the wartime powers and controls that the
recent National Labor-Management Conference was called in Washington.
Instead of retaining in the Federal Government the power over wages
and labor agreements and industrial relations which a global war
had made necessary, the top leaders of management and labor were
invited to recommend a program under which labor relations would be
turned back into the hands of those involved.
It was decided that full responsibility for reaching agreement
on such a program would be left with the representatives of labor
and management. Accordingly the conference was made up of leaders
of labor and management only. Government representatives partici-
merely
pated onty as observers, without vote. The agenda and the entire
program were worked out by the leaders themselves.
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