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This article focuses on the foreign policy of the U.S. government toward Guatemala. The role of the U.S. in Guatemala and elsewhere in Central America is crucial, in that it can strike a blow for democracy by safeguarding the social, economic and political gains won in Guatemala since 1944. But it's late in the game for such obvious and logical idealism. The U.S. had 10 years, from 1944 to 1954, to convince the Guatemalans that they could organize a trade union movement, enact agrarian reform, and even settle their differences with United Fruit Co. without using a guide book from Moscow. But the U.S. didn't do it. It waited until the Reds had Guatemala pretty well staked out, with Communists in the key spots in the government machinery for administering labor law and agrarian reform. INSET: OTHER GUATEMALAS?.

The people of Chicago in Illinois move with the knowledge that anything can happen there, and it lightens the burden of life. The latest example of this is the case of Robert M. Sweitzer, bellweather of the Cook County Democracy, who as an indicted and ousted public official went to trial early in October 1935 in the criminal court on the charge of withholding $414,129 of the funds of the county clerk's office, which he vacated in December 1934, to become county treasurer. Sweitzer explained genially to the jury that he hoped some day to pay the money back, and walked out a free man. Sweitzer is reported to be toying with the ideas of running again for public office.

The article focuses on the financial crisis in Detroit. Shutdown of the Ford Motor Company, which put 50,000 people out of work; Assertion that lack of material from the Kelsey-Hayes wheel plant in Detroit forced to close the Ford plants; Background of the Kelsey-Hayes strike; Intention of the United Automobile Workers officials to ask the National Labor Relations Board to take a strike vote among the employees of the automobile industry's Big Three, General Motors, Chrysler and Ford; Demand of the Union for a wage increase of 30 percent; View that a strike mandate is a powerful weapon in any wage negotiation; Information that the unions are maintaining that industry can raise wage rates without increasing prices; Question concerning of sharing of industry profits.

Presents information on the United Nations monetary conference at Bretton Woods, New Hampshire. Delegates from 44 nations participating in the conference; Details of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt's letter of greeting, in which he reminded the delegates of what they already know, that economic diseases are highly communicable; Information that the delegates are here to make a formal draft of a plan already adumbrated by United Nations monetary technicians in conferences extending over many months; Two blueprints to be presented at the conference, one for a bank to put the world on its feet after the war, and the other for an $8 billion currency-stabilization fund to keep said world on its feet; Information that the Bank for Reconstruction and Development would make loans to devastated countries to restore their economies and replace the instruments of production; Discussion on the technical difficulties before the conferees.

Focuses on the contributions made by political leader Westbrook Pegler in labor movements in the U.S. Description of Wagner Act by Pegler as an enslaving statute of social security; Work of American Federation Labor in the support of labor movement; Information on state prosecution in New York building service employees' union; Anti-gangster resolution stated by political leader Dave Dubinsky with Ladies' Garment Workers' Union.

Focuses on labor movements in the U.S. Effect of national disunity on inflation; Fight of the U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt for subsidies on various food items; Victory of American Federation of Labor over the National Labor Relation Board; Recognition by the Roosevelt on the need of continued support of labor.

This article discusses about political career and future prospects of politician Dwight D. Eisenhower. The first and probably most disconcerting fact about Eisenhower's life as a professed politician is the failure of the populace to strew his path with rose petals and offer him the Republican nomination for President by acclamation. One of the things that dazes and irritates him is the manner in which he has been labeled as an arch-conservative on the basis of things he has said since his return from Paris, France. He has a pious conviction about equality of opportunity for everyone.

Discusses the proposals and goals of the labor movement, the United Automobile Workers (CIO) on issues relating to labor, wages, cost-of-living for workers and industrial development as presented in a national convention held in December 1944 in Chicago, Illinois. Speech made by Most Reverend Bernard J. Sheil, an auxiliary bishop of Chicago on the cost-of-living chart, protection of real wages, a proposed annual wage and the eliminate discrimination against blacks and prevent anti-Semitism; Proposals of the CIO for cooperation among industrialists and farmers, increase in purchasing power and production and preservation of industrial peace; Launch of a program by the CIO focusing on annual wages, a board of representatives for industry, labor and agriculture, supplementary unemployment benefits and international trade and economic cooperation; Development of a permanent and active international labor movement.

Focuses on the mystery shrouding the life and death of Charles E. Bedaux, a fascist leader from France associated with the Nazis, who committed suicide in the immigration service detention home in Miami, Florida. Claim that Bedaux knew the prominent personalities of the United States; Reason behind Bedaux's efforts to avoid his deportation to French Africa; Cause behind consumption of sleeping tablets by Bedaux to commit suicide; Profile of Bedaux; Audacity of Bedaux to crash into high circles; Relationship of Bedaux with the Duke of Windsor; Entry of Bedaux into Nazi society; Working of Bedaux as espionage agent of the Nazis; Evidences to testify favorably for his U.S. citizenship and his integrity and loyalty to the country, which includes prominent personalities of the U.S.; Views that fascist forces exist in all the people.

Reports that the meeting of the executive council of the American Federation of Labor (AFL) held in Miami, Florida, has been remarkable for contribution to the peace and tranquillity of the U.S. Effect of return of labor leader John L. Lewis and his miners to the Federation on political position of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt; Problem between AFL and Lewis due to decision of Lewis to have jurisdiction over chemical workers when he returns to AFL; Presence of 45,000 chemical workers organized in a national council of federal unions in AFL; Attitude of AFL towards Communism and the Soviet Union being revealed by its decision on the invitation to the London conference; Opinion of AFL that an international labor meeting should be called by the International Federation of Trade Union; Possibility for the Canadian Trades and Labor Council and Latin American labor groups following AFL regarding the British invitation.

This article presents information on labor dispute in the steel industry in the U.S. There is nothing to prevent the U.S. Supreme Court from declaring that President Harry S. Truman, regardless of the patience of the steelworkers, should have used the Taft-Hartley Act to restrain the steel strike another 80 days before dipping into his undefined pool of inherent powers to seize the steel industry. In this uncertain atmosphere, the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) Steelworkers Union held its sixth constitutional convention in Philadelphia. In the early days of the CIO a critical wage dispute that dragged on for five months without Resolution would have produced a formidable group of firebrands demanding action.

This article presents information on commodity markets. It is informed that U.S. President, Harry S. Truman, defense mobilizer Charles E. Wilson and Secretary of Agriculture Charles F. Brannan are asking the Congress for authority to control margin requirements in the commodity markets. But there is every indication that Congress will again withhold from the government the authority to control margins in the commodity markets, even in the face of a warning by Wilson to the Senate Banking and Currency Committee last week that another speculative splurge is a dangerous possibility.

The article discusses the influence of illegitimate gangs on the trade in the U.S. In the U.S. it is common to find graduates of the brothels, the bootleg rings, the gambling casinos and the hoodlum unions at long last at the top of the economic pyramid, among the employer class. Then, there are gangsters and ex-gangsters, who made their way in the rackets by their own abilities as leaders, and now invest in legitimate enterprises, to which they bring those same traits of leadership. One of the most shocking problems in this connection, and one which constitutes a black page in the history of U.S. industry, is the indisputable evidence obtained by the committee of co-operation with major hoodlums on the part of important segments of business enterprise.

The article focuses on the citizens who make up the elite of the underworld in each of the big towns of the United States and have learned over the years how to rob the Internal Revenue Bureau blind. Senator Estes Kefauver's committee has gathered evidence, which may be put in the record in the coming week, that one eminent Cleveland racketeer has enough influence in a small steel company to determine how it shall dispose of its production. He won this influence by financing a company official in his tight for control with another company official.

Focuses on the political ambitions of U.S. labor leader John L. Lewis. Description of political differences between Philip Murray, president of Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) and Lewis; Demand made by Lewis to Murray to take action against CIO unionists who had been guilty of uttering unkind remarks in public about the Sage of Alexandria; Expectation of CIO people from Lewis to bring his fight out into the open before May 19, when the Steel Workers' Organizing Committee meets to become a constitutional union.

Focuses on the proposal by U.S. labor leader John Lewis on the consolidation of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) and the American Federation of Labor (AFL). Reason behind the rejection of Lewis proposal; "Peace," as conceived by Lewis; Repudiation of the peace plan by the executive board of the CIO; Possibility of Lewis's existence in CIO; Impact of the collapse of War Labor Board on the organic unity of CIO and AFL.

Focuses on Philip Murray, president of the Congress of lndustrial Organizations(CIO). Views that Murray is a great conciliator, unselfish and personally, unambitious as a labor leader; Appraisal of Murray for being an organization man; Reference to the background of Murray as the son of a coal-miner; Views that Murray was an organization man when he was elected for the first time to the International Executive Board of the United Mine Workers, and when he turned down a $5000-a-year offer from the head of a coal company; Comments on the bitterness within the CIO.

The article profiles R. J. Thomas, president of the labor union United Automobile Workers (UAW). The labor union is engaged in the production of military weapons. He has a strong resistance to protocol and orthodoxy. His speeches delivered at the union's conventions exhibit his reluctance to racial discrimination. His educational and career background are presented.

Focuses on the Presidential election campaigns in the Southern states in the U.S. Discussion of speeches by Governor Adlai E. Stevenson in the South; Visibility of class consciousness of the Presidential contest in New Orleans; Notification to the voters of the precise benefits received by them from the federal government under 20 years of Democratic rule by Stevenson; Support of the national ticket for the Democratic organizations in Louisiana and Florida.

The article focuses on political campaigns in the United States where Presidential candidate Dwight D. Eisenhower remarkably fortified the Republican Party for the coming Presidential elections. In Indianapolis, Eisenhower had an embarrassing time but presented himself in highly diplomatic cum social manner. He promised Senator Robert Taft that there would be no discrimination against Taft supporters if he were elected. When asked by a reporter, Eisenhower showed ignorance about injunctions in labor law but immediately he nailed down on the specific phases of it.

The article focuses on U.S. Presidential candidate Dwight D. Eisenhower's election campaign. The shareholders in the Eisenhower crusade had some reason for their elevation of spirit as he took to the hustings early on the morning of September 2. The crowds in the South did something good for Eisenhower. He was still a little laborious in his expression, but he had flashes of vigor, and showed a new-found facility for getting the subject and the predicate into the same sentence. The deep-rooted resentment against Eisenhower from the far right-wing of the Republican Party is still the most pressing problem of the nominee, whatever his brain trusters say to the contrary.

This article reports that Dwight D. Eisenhower was the one man who could neutralize the attraction between the Democrats and the labor leaders. The most important development in the labor-political scene is the real probability that the American Federation of Labor, after years of official aloofness from national politics, will endorse Adlai E. Stevenson at the AFL convention which opens in New York in a few weeks. The groundwork for this historically important move, which would destroy an old non-partisan tradition in the AFL, was laid last week at the meeting of the AFL executive council in Atlantic City.

Presents letters to the editor regarding labor policy. Reference to an article by Edwin Lahey on recent labor peace movement initiated by U.S. labor leader John L. Lewis, published in the February 2, 1946 issue; Protest of Lewis for his peace plan.