The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-06-09
Support by Industry and
Labor Bring Defeat to
Licensing Foes.
CONFERENCE NECESSARY
Adjournment of Congress
by Saturday Night Now
Is Possible.
LEAD RECOVERY BILL
BY RUTH FINNEY
Times Special Writer

WASHINGTON, June O.
The end of sweatshop compe-
tition in industry definitely
was in sight today as the
United States senate seconded
the house of representatives
in approving major sections
of the national recovery bill.
What promised to be bitter fight
against provisions clothing the gov
eminent with authority to enforce
fair competition among business
men in regard TO wages and hours
of labor collapsed in the face of
strong support from both industry
and labor
Only details affecting taxes and
public works remain to be disposed
Of before the recovery bill receives
final approval from congress.
Passage Expected Today
The senate will pass the recovery
act some time today. A conference
with the house will be necessary to
reconcile tax provisions of the house
and senate bills, but no other serious
differences exist between the two
measures.
AS soon as the bill finally is
passed an appropriation measure
will be presented in the house of
representatives, Immediately making
available funds for construction of
public works and for administrative
machinery to operate the industrial
section.
This speedily can be disposed of
in both houses.
Final adjournment of congress by
Saturday night, as the President
wishes, seems possible unless other
controversial matters are not dis
posed of by that time.
Formidable Opposition Fades
The senate paved the way for an
Industrial short work week in one
OF the longest work days in this
session of congress.
There seemed to be formidable
opposition to the administration
industrial partnership plan when
the session began early Thursday
morning. Before night this COM
pletely had crumbled.
An attempt to kill the industrial
plan-the heart of the bill-was
beaten by 49 to 81 votes. An at
tempt to remove the punitive IL
censing provision failed by 81 to 81.
A section which liberals feared
might legalize company unions to
the disadvantage of organized la
Dor was rejected IS to 81 and the
original language of the bill re-
stored.
A committee amendment placing
an embargo on foreign goods pro-
duced under less favorable working
conditions than those in this coun-
try was repudiated SO to II all
though a substitute giving the Presi-
dent authority to levy offsetting
tariffs was accepted.
Party lines prevailed, for the most
part, in the votes on these ques-
tons.
Price-Fixing Is Banned
The senate's most important
amendment to the bill as passed
IN the house would prohibit trade
associations from agreeing on prices
IN formulating codes of fair COM
petition.
Upon insistence of Senator Will
nam Borah Rep, Ida), admins
tratlon leaders agreed that codes
shall not permit combination in
restraint Of trade, price fixing, or
other monopolistic practices" This
amendment will not. however, pre-
vent a code provision that no sale
can be made below cost Of produc-
ton.
An attempt by the senate COM
mlttee to permit licensing in diff
terent geogra phical areas was
stricken from the bill on insistence
OF southern senator's.
This will make it necessary to Il
cense all parts of an industry
throughout the country if any part
Is licensed in the effort to stop wage
and price cutting.
An amendment making the fed
eral trade commission rather than
United States attorneys responsible
Tor instituting action against
violatorS was believed by liberals to
strengthen enforcement provisions.
Today the senate will decide
whether funds for highway con-
struction shall be allotted partly on
a population basis as the house
wishes or according to existing fed
eral aid laws.