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White House Press Release, Message of President Harry S. Truman to the United States House of Representatives
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June 11, 1946
CONFIDENTIAL: The following message of the President to the
Congress, MUST BE HELD IN STRICT CONFIDENCE and no portion,
synopsis or intimation is to be given out or published until
reading of the message has begun in the House of Representatives,
probably about 12o'clock NOON, TODAY, June 11, 1946.
The same release applies to redio commentators and
news broadcasters.
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CAUTION: Extreme care should be exercised to prevent premature
publication.
CHARLES G. ROSS
Secretary to the President
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TO THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES:
I am returning herewith, without my approval, HR 4908,
entitled "An Act To Provide Additional Facilities For the Media-
tion of Labor Disputes, And For Other Purposes.
The outstanding domestic problem confronting this country
today is the maintenance and increase of production. The must have
production, or the effects or ruinous inflation will be felt by
every one of our citizens. Strikes and lockouts are the greatest
handicaps to attaining vital production.
Inasmuch as the solution of our present-day labor problems
constitutes the key to production, this present bill must be judged
in the light of whether it will assist in reducing labor strife in
the nation.
JINEST
I have given careful study to the bill. I have not con-
sidered it from the standpoint of whether it favors or harms
labor, or whether it favors or harms management. I have considered
it from the standpoint of whether or not it benefits the public,
which includes both management and labor.
In the determination of the question of whether. or not
the great majority of our citizens will be benefited by this bill,
the question presented is whether it will help to stop strikes and
work stoppages and prevent other practices which adversely affect
our economy.
I have reached the conclusion that it will not.
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I have tried, as the representative of all the people of
our nation, to approach this problem objectively, free from the
emotional strains of the times, and free from every consideration
except the welfare of our nation and of the world which is so de-
pendent upon our recovery to a full peacetime economy.
This bill was undoubtedly passed by the members of the
Congress in the sincere belief that it would remedy certain existing
conditions which cause labor strife and produce domestic turmoil.
I
cannot agree with the Congress with reference to the results that
would be achieved by it.
I trust that there will be no confusion in the minds of the
members of the Congress or in the minds of the public between this
bill and my request on May twenty-fifth for emergency legislation.
At that time I requested temporary legislation to be ef-
fective only for a period of six months after the termination of
hostilities, and applicable only to those few industries which had
been taken over by the overnment and which the President by
proclamation declared that an emergency had arisen which affected
the entire economy of the country.
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