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FDR: “If by this bill you force an increase in the cost of the basic foodstuffs, and as a result the National War Labor Board…”

On the recordApril 1, 1943
If by this bill you force an increase in the cost of the basic foodstuffs, and as a result the National War Labor Board increases wages, no one can tell where increases will stop.
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FDR
Democratic · New York

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Veto of a Parity Computation Bill

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