Harry Truman

Each of the carriers involved shall be given independent consideration in such investigation, and the said labor organizations shall be permitted to function as a unit in proceedings before the board.

The board shall report its findings to the President with respect to the said disputes within thirty days from the date of this order.

Special treatment of this type for specific municipalities would not only be administratively unfair and unsound, but if applied generally to several cities would add significantly to the cost of the Census and materially delay its…

NOW, THEREFORE, by virtue of the authority vested in me by section 10 of the Railway Labor Act, as amended (45 U.S.C. 160), I hereby create a board of three members, to be appointed by me, to investigate the said disputes.

Such special treatment is obviously contradictory to the spirit and intent of the constitutional and legislative requirements which provide for the seventeenth decennial census.

No member of the said board shall be pecuniarily or otherwise interested in any organization of railway employees or any carrier.

That's correct--that's correct.

I requested it time and time again, that they not let it expire.

An excess profits tax is a very controversial matter.

I haven't met anybody of that sort yet.

The House and Senate must legislate and put the matter up to me, and then I will comment on it.

That tax ought never to have been put on there in the first place.

General MacArthur and I are in perfect agreement, and have been ever since he has been in the job he is now.

The United Nations Security Council is in session, and the Assembly will be in session in a very short time.

It hasn't been, as yet.

I can't answer any questions like that--now--I'm sorry.

I haven't met anybody yet.

I take my military advice from the military leaders, and I am optimistic, as they are.

We have been putting them down.

Of course, eventually, there will be an excess profits tax, but the Congress ought to have plenty of time to work it out when they haven't the election jitters.

Themselves principally, I think.

I am in favor of anything that will contribute to the peace of the world.

I urge this Committee therefore to redouble its efforts to place before all the employers of this Nation and all the groups concerned with employment the very simple message that the physically handicapped can and should be employed.

In our society, on the other hand, human life is infinitely precious.

I don't think that amendment should be in the ECA bill at all.