Speech of Senator Harry S. Truman Before the National Conference of the Society for the Advancement of Management, New York City, New York

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speech TO Bl delivered BY SENATOR HARKY, 3. TRUMAN, BEFORE THE NATIONAL CONFIRENCL OF THL SOCIETY FOK THE ADVANCHINT OF IN "THL JADL ROOM", NALDORE-ASTORIA, NEW YORK CITY, ON 3,1943. TO BE ReLeASed ON delivery Mr. Chairman, and members of the Society for the Advancement of Management, I appreciate your invitation to speak to you on the problem of conve. sion from wal production. Those problems are going to affect every one of you. Because your activities constitute so important a segment of the work of the nation, the extent to which you are successful in meeting these problems will determine whether this nation will have prosperity after the war. Like most of you, I am confident that everything necessary to estab- lish a prosperity beyond anything that we have ever had before is available to us. During the war we have constructed hundreds of the finest and most modern factories; we have equipped them with hundreds of thousands of the newest and most efficient machine tools; and we have trained millions of men and women to operate the tools. We have developed new materials and new processes of manufacturing, We have also expanded our capacity to produce materials and have made available, for every day use in large quantities, materials that formerly were relatively rare and costly. KRUMAN NARA is