Box 39: 80th Congress, Legislative Files: Surplus Property - Veterans (1947-1949).
F 1: Surplus Property.
Correspondence: re: amendment of the Surplus Property Act.
F 2: Taft-Hartley Bill.
a. Correspondence: re: Taft-Hartley Bill.
b. Copy of Clippings.
c. Press Release: "CIO President Murray Charges Taft Retreats on 18 Key Sections of Taft-Hartley Law (February 21, 1949).
d. Congressional Record: Ralph W. Gwinn: "Truman Wrong 32 Times; Right But One, in His Veto of Taft-Hartley Act." (April 8, 1949).
e. Flyer: League Reporter: Vol. 1, No. 6: "Wood Bill Worse Than Taft-Hartley." (April 25, 1949).
f. Comparison of Major Provisions of the Taft-Hartley Labor Management Relations Act, 1947. The Wood Bill (H. R. 3228)., and the Thomas - Lesinski Bill (H. R. 3228), the Proposed "National Labor Relations Act of 1949."
g. Analysis of Second Wood Bill (H. R. 4290) and comparison with Taft-Hartley.
F 3: Tariff.
General correspondence: H. R. 2773.
F 4a: Tax Bill.
a. Copy of Clippings.
b. List of income tax bills introduced.
c. Report 468 (H. R. 3950): Milliken: "Individual Income Tax Reduction Act of 1947." 80th Congress, 1st Session (1947). Committee on Finance.
d. The State of the Union Address of the President of the United States." 80th Congress, 2nd Session 91948).
e. H. R. 4726: Douglas: "To provide a cost-of-living credit under the individual income tax, to impose a tax on the excess profits of corporation, to repeal certain excise taxes, and for other purposes." 80th Congress, 1st Session (1947). Committee on Ways and Means.
f. Drafts of speeches.
g. Statement: Helen Gahagan Douglas: "President's Tax Recommendation." (January 7, 1948).
h. Remarks of Honorable Helen Gahagan Douglas on Tax Bill (January 30, 1948).
F 4b: Tax Bill: Correspondence and Data (1947).
a. Correspondence: re: need for tax cuts; H. R. 4726. Correspondents include: Albert Gore - Tennessee; Herman Eberharter - Pennsylvania; Brooks Hays - Arkansas; Frank Buchanan - Pennsylvania; John Folger - North Carolina; Sol Bloom - NY; William Colmer - Mississippi; Hale Boggs - Louisiana; Pete Jarman - Alabama.
b. Copies of clippings.
c. A Plan For Meeting the Domestic Food Shortage Without Price Control and Rationing.
d. Article: re: Truman and Knutson tax reduction plans.
F 5: Taxes: Miscellaneous.
a. Correspondence: re: excise taxes; H. R. 1.
b. P. L. 80-471 (H. R. 4790): "To reduce individual income tax payments, and for other purposes." (2 copies).
F 6: Teacher's salaries.
a. Correspondence: re: raise in Teachers salaries needed; exemption from federal income tax proposal.
b. Article: "Teaching Is No Longer Profession - It Is a Procession from the Classroom!"
F 7: Treaties.
Correspondence: re: Peace treaties in regards to Hungary.
F 8: Un-American Activities: Nixon Bill (Mundt-Nixon Bill).
a. Comments: re: Legislation to control subversive communist activities in the United States.
b. Statement: re: Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee (April 16, 1946).
c. Lists of those who haven't signed discharge petition No. 4.
d. Legislative Action Letter No. 1.
e. H. R. 5852: "To protect the United States against un-American and subversive Activities." 80th Congress, 2nd Session (1948). Committee on the Judiciary.
f. Congressional. Records.
g. NAACP Bulletin: copies of clippings. Vol. III, No. 2 (February, 1944) and Vol. V, No. 8 (August-September, 1946).
F 9: United Nations.
Correspondence: re: Public opinion polls; H. Con. Res. 59, world peace; US - UN relations.
F 10: Universal Military Training.
a. Correspondence: re: support and opposition to Universal Miliary Training.
b. Booklet: George Yamada: "Tactics for Tyranny."
F 11: Veterans: Helen Gahagan Douglas's Bill Defining Benefits to the Disabled Veterans etc.
a. H. R. 4611: Douglas: "Defining benefits to disabled veterans and their dependents." 80th Congress, 1st Session (1947). Committee on Veterans Affairs.
b. Copy of clippings.
c. Congressional Record: Jerry Voorhis - California: "A Debt, Not a Donation."
F 12: Veterans: Miscellaneous/Data.
a. H. R. 1389: Rees: "To amend the Veterans' Preference Act of 1944." 80th Congress, 1st Session (1947). Committee on Post Office and Civil Service.
b. H. R. 3814: Rogers - Massachusetts: "To provide for the establishment of a Veterans' Hospital for Negro Veterans at the birthplace of Booker T. Washington in Franklin County, Virginia." 80th Congress, 1st Session 91947). Committee on Veterans's Affairs.
c. S. 326: Pepper: "To amend the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944, with respect to the education and training of Veterans." 80th Congress, 1st Session (1947). Committee on Labor and Public Welfare.
d. S. 657: "To amend the Pay Readjustment Act of 1942, as amended, so as to authorize crediting of service as a cadet, midshipman, or aviation cadet for pay purposes, and for other purposes." 80th Congress, 2nd Session (1948). Committee on Armed Services.
e. P. L. 78-346 (S. 1767): "To provide Federal Government aid for the readjustment in civilian life of returning World War II veterans.
f. P. L. 79-662 (H. R. 6811): "Relating to veterans' pension, compensation, or retirement pay during hospitalization, institutionalization or domiciliary care, and for other purposes."
g. P. L. 79-589 (H. R. 6371): "To amend certain provisions of the National Service Life Insurance Act of 1940, as amended, and for other purposes."
h. Memorandum: re: Program for Disabled Veterans carried out at Walter Reed by the Washington Industrial Council and Suggested Program for Adoption by the National CIO.
i. The Birmingham Plan For Industrial Therapy.
j. Press Release: re: Action on proposed increases in veterans' subsistence payments.
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