Letter from William Green to President Harry S. Truman

AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR MAY 2 Key west FORPATION LIVE OMNIA AMERICAN OF LABOR MICITI Executive Council send to WH fill President, WILLIAM GREEN Secretary-Treasurer, GEORGE MEANY discussed A. F. of L. Building, Washington, D.C. First Vice President, WILLIAM L. HUTCHESON, Seventh Vice President, W. C. DOHERTY, Carpenters' Bldg., Indianapolis, Ind. 1525 H St., N. W., Washington, D. C. Second Vice President, MATTHEW WOLL, Eighth Vice President, DAVID DUBINSKY, 570 Lexington Ave., New York, N. Y. 1710 Broadway, New York, N. Y. WHS Third Vice President, GEO. M. HARRISON, Ninth Vice President, CHARLES J, MACGOWAN, Railway Clerks' Bldg., Cincinnati, O. 504 Brotherhood Bldg., Kansas Kans. Fourth Vice President, DANIEL J. TOBIN, Tenth Vice President, HERMAN WINTER 222 East Michigan St., Indianapolis, Ind. 2719 N. Wilton Ave., Chicago III. Orga Nov,15,1881 Fifth Vice President, HARRY C. BATES, Eleventh Vice President, D. W. TRACY WHITE HOUSE 815 Fifteenth St., N. W., Washington, D.C. 1200 Fifteenth St., N. W Washington, D.C. Sixth Vice President, W.C. BIRTHRIGHT, Twelfth Vice President, WILMINGTON Delaware at Twelfth Street, Indianapolis, Ind. 318 W. Randoiph Street, Chicago 6, Thirteenth Vice President, JAMES C. PETRILLO, LONG DISTANCE TELEPHONE NATIONAL 3870-1-2-3-4 570 Lexington Avenue, New York 22, N. Y. 12 8 12 AM 52 CABLE ADDRESS AFEL. 1 RECEIVED 103-G Washington 1, D.C. January 14, 1952 The President The White House Dear Mr. President: On behalf of the American Federation of Labor, I wish to commend you on the appointment of the President's Commission to conduct a study of the health needs of the x103 nation. # Communist aggression has thrust upon the American people a heavy burden of defense and rearmament. In build- ing up the nation's defensive strength, health is a foremost factor. The defense effort has made especially urgent the task of providing effective remedies for the grave problem of inadequate health services and facilities. There is pressing and insistent need for Congressional action which would assure training of more physicians, nurses, dentists, and medical technicians than are now in training. We must prevent the present acute shortage of trained medical personnel from developing into a far-reaching national crisis. We need prompt Congressional action to help initiate speedy construction of hospitals and health centers in the areas where such facilities are grossly inadequate or com- pletely absent. We need quick provision of funds to activate without delay the operation of the Emergency Maternal and Infant care Programs in the centers of defense activity throughout the nation. The program to strengthen State and local public health units, embodied in 445 and already passed by the Senate, should be enacted into law without further delay. no acknowledgment in file 5/21/52.