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

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.

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.

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

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 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 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.'

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

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 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.

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

I am very happy you are here.

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 sincerely hope you will enjoy your visit.

I expect some Republicans are very much wrought up about it, so I hope to keep them that way.

I am glad that vaudeville is coming back.

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