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Harry Truman: “Surely you are not afraid to have your side of this dispute examined in the public interest.”

On the recordJuly 12, 1949
Surely you are not afraid to have your side of this dispute examined in the public interest.
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Harry Truman
Democratic · Missouri

Editor's note · Context

Further Telegrams to Leaders in the Steel Labor Dispute.

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