Evening star., 1933-11-03
lUND PLAN SEIZED
BY LABOR AS CLUB
FOR SWOPE SCHEME
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handle such questions with the best re-
suits to industry and business
4. The diversity of interests between
9 commerce. industry and service organ
: izations make it difficult to get prompt
s or effective action. he said, and better
: results are obtainable with each busl-
> ness group occupying itself with Its
: own affairs.
johnson Discl0ses Views.
Gen. johnson yesterday issued a
statement to amplify and clarity his
attitude toward the Swope plan and
various interpretations upon the future
of the Recovery Administration or the
interests of industry, labor and COM
merce"
The Swope plan" he said. docs not
propose the slightest interference Win
N. r. A. or with Government partlclpa-
ton. supervision or absolute veto power
on anything done by any organized
industry under any code or authority
or with exclusive governmental control
OF any penal sanctions OF the law.
1T is the ultimate ideal of such an
industrial organization as will enable
the N. r. A to control industry, leaving
TO industry the right to discipline ltsell
in the first instance. The national IN
dustrial reCovey act speclhcally pro
vides for and intends the organization
of industry into associations, subject 10
governmental control. and the SWope
plan is intended to follow closely the
pattern laid down in that act.
Sees Obedience to Law.
.0rbe Svone nlan assumes organ
izatfon and representation of labor
throughout along lines already devel-
oped in the N. r. A, and perhaps best
eXemplifed in the bituminous coal code
but it could not propose any speclhc
pattern for labor organization because,
under N. r. A. labor has the right to
select its own form of organization.
Nothing will disturb the present bal
ianced organization of N. r. A.. with in
dustrial, labor and consumers repre-
sentatiOn in every hearing, in every dis
cussion of policy, and in respect OF every
action
Tariff and recovery officials also were
engaged today in marshaling data OIL
the flow of foreign goods into th'
United States since industrial code!
began going into effect. The inference
was that some Investigations pursuan
to President Roosevclt's recent ordel
might come STOTll4
Although the trend of imports /
being watched officials kept silent OF
the exact status of complaints asking
protection from foreign goods on tn
ground domestic production costs ar
much higher under the codes.
1t was such protests that prompted
the President to authorize the Recover!
Administration to take up the effect O
imports On domestic production. Bu
complaints first must be handled b,
a special division of the N. r. A., paSSet
on by johnson and forwarded to th
President, who alone may direct tn
Tariff Commission to Investigate AM
recommend whether he shall exercise th
power given him under the recovery &C
to limit tn influx of a given product
even to the point of declaring al
embargo.
September Imports Up.
September imports. despite drop be
low August, still were far above thos'
for the same month last year-Sl46,
561.848, compared with $98 8447.750
Figures obtained for the first time today
on various commodities show many
contributed to the larger total. Thes
included grains and preparations. stee