Laughlin to Secretary of State
Title
Laughlin to Secretary of State
Creator
Laughlin, Irwin B. (Irwin Boyle), 1871-1941
Identifier
WWP25446
Date
1918 November 8
Description
US embassy in London reports on efforts at rebuilding.
Source
Library of Congress, Woodrow Wilson Papers
Publisher
Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library & Museum
Subject
World War, 1914-1918
Baruch, Bernard M. (Bernard Mannes), 1870-1965
World War, 1914-1918--Reconstruction
Contributor
Anna Phillips
Relation
WWP25445
WWP25447
Language
English
Provenance
Document scan was taken from Library of Congress microfilm reel of the Wilson Papers. WWPL volunteers transcribed the text.
Text
AFW BLUE
London
Dated November 8, 1918.
Recd. 9, 12noon
Secretary of State
Washington
Routine 3530, November 8, 3pm.
Baruch from Summers. Further reference to British reconstruction policy. Government expect to announce their plans for labor adjustments this week. In general they provide a maintenance fund to each man based upon his family. This will continue for a period of several months until adjustment has taken place. Contractors will be compensated for out of pocket expenses and all inspection staffs of manufacturing plants will be supplemented and used to prepare an investigation of exact conditions. Committees have been working for same time on standardizing different stages of work so that decision can immediately be made on the basis of these standards and material completed or scrapped. All these arrangements are supplemental to and quite independent of any terms in the various contracts. The fundamental basis of settlement is that neither labor nor manufacture will be disarranged by immediate peace and yet the government will be free to aggressively pursue a reconstruction programme. Unquestionably a great deal of careful work has been done here on this subject.
LAUGHLIN
HCC
London
Dated November 8, 1918.
Recd. 9, 12noon
Secretary of State
Washington
Routine 3530, November 8, 3pm.
Baruch from Summers. Further reference to British reconstruction policy. Government expect to announce their plans for labor adjustments this week. In general they provide a maintenance fund to each man based upon his family. This will continue for a period of several months until adjustment has taken place. Contractors will be compensated for out of pocket expenses and all inspection staffs of manufacturing plants will be supplemented and used to prepare an investigation of exact conditions. Committees have been working for same time on standardizing different stages of work so that decision can immediately be made on the basis of these standards and material completed or scrapped. All these arrangements are supplemental to and quite independent of any terms in the various contracts. The fundamental basis of settlement is that neither labor nor manufacture will be disarranged by immediate peace and yet the government will be free to aggressively pursue a reconstruction programme. Unquestionably a great deal of careful work has been done here on this subject.
LAUGHLIN
HCC
Original Format
Letter
To
Lansing, Robert, 1864-1928
Files
Collection
Citation
Laughlin, Irwin B. (Irwin Boyle), 1871-1941, “Laughlin to Secretary of State,” 1918 November 8, WWP25446, World War I Letters, Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library & Museum, Staunton, Virginia.