U.S. At War: The President’s Week, May 29, 1944

The President last week:

¶ Bade Vice President Henry Agard Wallace farewell on his trip to China, pointedly promised that Henry Wallace would be back in time for the Democratic convention.

¶ Conferred with Ambassador to Britain John G. Winant and Ambassador to Russia Averell Harriman, remained firmly mum about both conferences.

¶ This week seized another unit of Montgomery Ward & Co. (Hummer Manufacturing Co. of Springfield, Ill.). Reason for the seizure was the same as at Chicago: Montgomery Ward’s refusal to obey a WLB order calling for union maintenance of membership. This time there was one difference: the Hummer Co., maker of propellers and carburetors, is a bona fide, though tiny (525 employes) war plant.