The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1933-05-17
MANY CHANGES
in ROOSEVELT
PROGRAM SEEN
BECOMES FULLY
DETERMINED TO BRING ALL
AMERICAN BUSINESS INTO
RECOVERY PROGRAM
By BYRON PRICE
(Chief OF Bureau. The Associated
Press, Washinaton)

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(Chief OF Bureau. The Associated
Press. Washinston)
President Roosevelt's effort to
swing American business into line
behind the Administrations re-
eovery program appears to be en-
tering its most important phase.
Day by day it becomes palmer
that the president is fully deter
mined to see certain changes eff
fected in the conduct of industry.
II is no secret that the things pro-
posed appear to some industrial
leaders to be far too sweeping.
The next few weeks should
bring this situation to difinite
issue, one way or the other. II
business itself shows disposition
to revise its practices, II will have
administration cooperation. II i
does not, history-making strug-
gle over restrictive legislation Il
entirely possible.
| The things he has In mind have
been outlined in general terms BY
i MIR. Roosevelt. He objects to
speculation with other peoples
money, to the sort of unrestrained
competition which produces peren-
NAL SURPRISES, and to debased
wage scales and lowered standards
of labor.
Those who oppose his ideas de-
nounce as radical and socialistic
any attempt to prescribe in detail
how business shall conduct its
daily life, how much It shall pro-
duce, or at what cost In terms OF
wages.
This Is the basic point, about
which the country probably will
hear a great deal In the near fu-
ture.
The Roosevelt Formula
II is in accord with Dir. Rooae-
velt's customary processes Of
thought that he IN prepared TO give
industry mn opportunity to make
voluntarily the connections he com
siders necessary,
Last September. speaking at
Portland, Ore, he laid down this
formula with respect 70 public
utilities:
II might call the right Of the
people 70 own and operate their
own utility the birch rod IN the
cupboard TO be taken out and
used only when the child gets be-
yond the point where = mere scoId-
ing does any good.
While he might not call Il
''scolding" in this instance. the
President has let the leaders Of
industry know rather definitely
that he considers . revision Of
trade practices imperative.
He put Il in the form Of \ ire
quest when he addressed the me-
tionaI chamber ef commerce. and
he has put Il somewhaf more fore
IDLY in talking with individuals.
Two or three separate groups
Of business leaders have beer In
session st his suggestion, seeking
= form n cooperative sFf0Tt which
woaId preclude drastic lagisIasion
where's Tke ReA9
What special ''bireh sed'' does
the President now havs ID reserve.
sheuld hMssnsas fail e. take yoIun.
tary aetion7
That Il . qaeaEsen Nr. Roose-
vels never has answered directly.
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