The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-11-02
Gradual Change Of MIRA
To Private Organization
For Business Is Looming
Swope Proposal Is
Backed By The
Administrator
Permanent Organic a ton
With Federal Supervi-
sion Announced Aim
By c. c. NICOLET
United Press Staff Correspondent

WASHINGTON. Nov. 2. (UP)
A picture of gradual conversion
of the NRA into a great private
organization with governing pow
ers over all industry began to de-
velop yesterday, with Gen. Hugh
S. Johnson, Gerard Swope and
Henry l. Hartman endorsing the
objective.
Johnson said such a scheme
would make it possible t o avoid
cycles of depression. Hartman,
president of the United States
Chamber of Commerce, warned
that the NRA would be failure
if it were allowed to become "just
government bureaucracy" He
added that growing discomfort of
business men with the recovery
program resulted because costs
had been increased faster than
purchasing power.
Briefly. the plan outlined is to
entrust to a national council the
code supervision authority now in
government hands. Government
officials would be members of the
council and it would work in close
collaboration with government de-
partments, maintaining extensive
research and statistical stats. I
The council might be created
by an enlargement of the U. ).
Chamber of Commerce, with labor
representation, it was suggested.
The plan was first presented by
Swope before meeting of the
business advisory and planning
council. a group of several score
leaders of business and the recov-
cry program organized under COM
merce department auspices. Later
Hartman elaborated on it and
Johnson said he was in Thorough
agreement" with it.
The government, Johnson said,
would maintain Every direct and
intimate supervision" over the or.
ganization. If such an industrial
organization were formed, he
said, labor should have CORE
spending organization "all the
way through"
johnson said he hoped that
through the NRA industry and la
Dor could be trained to work side
by side for the betterment OF
both.
"There is great permanent
value in the NRA," Hartman
said "but the permanent value
will be definitely enhanced II the
program is carried out by bust
ness, with government supervl.
sion, to see that the interests OF
the people are protected. The gov
eminent can't get anywhere polio
ing industry any more than IT
could police the 18th Amendment.
Business must police itself"
Collective bargaining features
of present codes would be retained
under the proposed new system. ne
said, but suggested that the sec
ond phase of industrial recovery
now beginning involved the "re-
fning of codes in the light of ex-
perience."
Taking cognizance of the labor
group objections, Swope later is
sued statement through General
Johnson's office giving assurances
that his plan did not contemplate
omission of "the organization OF
labor parallel with the organiza-
ton of industry He also made
an emphatic point of explaining
that nothing in the proposal
contemplated the supplanting OF
MIRA. adding that his temporary
retirement from the industrial re
covery board was not the product
of dissension with the aims of the
recovery administration. Swope's
statement said:
"There is nothing in my pro-
posal intended to supplant MA
or to set up any industrial self
discipline without governmental
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