The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-12
DRASTIC STEPS
DEMANDED TO
AID RECOVERY
RooSeveIt'S Advisers Urge
Tagging Industries Be
Forced Into Line.
PRESIDENT IS CAUTIOUS
HarShness Would Threaten
Success of Plan, Is
Executives View.
BY RAYMOND CLAPPER
United Press STAFF Correspondent

WASHINGTON, July l2.-Hardy
souls among President Roosevelt's
advisers are urging him to use the
teeth in the national recovery act.
Some industries are holding back.
Trade propaganda is carrying the
hint that manufacturers well might
sit tight and wait to see what hap
pens. Some industries are divided
so hopelessly that the government
is considering stepping in and bring
ing their quarrels directly before
the N 1. r. A.
Many of the Presidents advisers
rapidly are running out Of patience.
They want President Roosevelt to
use his dictatorial powers.
President Moves Cautiously
But he is inclined to move eau
tiously. His unprecedented exper-
iment must have general support if
it is to work. 1t must have the
bulk of industry and the business
world with it. He has witnessed the
collapse of prohibition because OF
the unpopularity which it aroused
when federal agents attempted to
dictate personal conduct.
Industry has not been prepared
for the sudden RECOMMENDATION now
proposed under the N. 1. R. A.
Harshness would stir up opposition
and threaten the experiment, the
more cautious feel
So President Roosevelt, armed with
greater power than any other Presi-
dent in peace time, may find diScre-
ton the better part of valor-for a
little while longer.
Impatient ones are urging a
blanket short cut by which, as a
stop-gap, President Roosevelt would
call upon all industry to adopt a
minimum wage scale and a univer-
sal maximum week of thirty-SiX
hours or SO, to hold until separate
codes had been approved.
Would Take Weeks
Examination of the law indicates
this could not be done without hear
ings. That would take weeks. The
only stop-gap. which could be ap-
piled at once would be a purely VOL
untary one.
1t might be done with a few
basic industries more quickly, with
few days of simultaneous hearings
for each.
At the present rate, millions can
not be put to work within few
weeks as had been planned. Speed
up measures are likely, but their
nature is uncertain.
Although the administration has
tremendous powers, it is finding
that they are much like credit
they will not stand up if over
worked. General Johnsons impulse
tells him to strike out and make an
example of some of the obstruction
lists. His judgment tells him to
nurse them while longer.
Fear New Collapse
It is a gamble. On one side is
the advantage of winning the CO.
operation of industry On the other
is the danger from rapid rise OF
prices, the heavy oVerStocking of
goods all out of reach of the con-
sumner, whose wages, if indeed he
has his job back, have not begun
to rise, situation which General
Johnson fears will end in another
collapse if not corrected promptly
The warning of Donald R. Rich
berg, general counsel for N. l. r. A,
more pointed now than when he
first made it, draws the issue thus
If the privately elected boards of
directors and the privately chosen
managers of industry undertake
their task and fulfill their RESPONSE
bility, they will end all talk of die
tatorships and government control
of business.
But if they hold back end waste
their precious hours. if they take
counsel with prejudice and doubt
if they tumble their great oppor-
tunit1, they suddenly may find that
it has gone forever"