Harry Truman

The Government of the United States, as represented by the President and the Congress, is doing everything it possibly can to make the United Nations a going concern for the peace and welfare of the world.

I am very much interested in all these things because it was my privilege to be at San Francisco when the Charter of the United Nations was signed.

We must exchange on a world basis the services and the goods of all the countries among themselves.

During this extended period I shall expect the Director of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service to make available to the parties every facility at his disposal in order to assist them in reaching agreement.

Obviously, additional time is required by all, including me, for study and consideration of the Board's findings and recommendations.

THIS MORNING the Steel Industry Board has reported to me its unanimous findings and recommendations as to fair and equitable terms of settlement of the current labor disputes in the steel industry.

I urge all parties in the steel industry labor disputes to cooperate with this request.

The parties to the labor disputes previously were requested to continue work and operations under the terms of the then existing collective bargaining agreements for a period of sixty days from July 16, 1949.

I am certainly happy that you gentlemen have been willing to tour our country and get a viewpoint from us that can be obtained no other way.

As provided by section 10 of the Railway Labor Act, as amended, from this date and for thirty days after the board has made its report to the President, no change, except by agreement, shall be made by the Monongahela Connecting Railroad…

I believe that if representatives of the Department of Agriculture and of Miles City will sit down together and work on this problem, a solution satisfactory to both can be found.

I think one of the greatest things that we can do is to mobilize the moral forces of the world for a real awakening of the things that originate in the Sermon on the Mount.

I am very happy you are here.

I am glad of the privilege of meeting all of you.

I return herewith, without my approval, H.R. 3589, entitled 'An Act to convey to the city of Miles City, State of Montana, certain lands in Custer County, Montana, for use as an industrial site.'

It is ordered that all the lands, buildings, improvements, and furnishings enumerated under Class Two of the said Executive Order No. 5602 of April 20, 1931, be, and they are hereby, transferred permanently to the control and jurisdiction…

I sincerely hope you will enjoy your visit.

I hope you will enjoy your tour of our country, and that our hospitality will be what you anticipate.

I don't play the game that way.

I think one retired down in Alabama just the other day.

I can't go any further than I have gone.

I don't know whether it can be prevented or not.

I am wholeheartedly in sympathy with that drive.

I can't tell you how much I appreciate your interest in this, by your presence here, and I hope that the next conference in 1950 will be the most important and most forward-looking and successful one that we have ever had.

We have been working strenuously since September 2, 1945, for world peace, and that is still our main objective.