Imperial Valley press., 1933-11-02
PLAN
NOT AGAINST
MIA PROGRAM
Johnson Says Suggestion Does
Not Propose To Make Least
Interference
IS FAVORED BY BUSINESS
Home Rule For Industry Pro-
vided For Under Sanction OF
Government.
BY RAYMOND CLAPPFR.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 2. U.p) =
National Recovery Administrators
Hugh S. Johnson in a formal state
ment today declared the Gerard
Swope plan for industrial self gov
ernment docs not propose the
slightest interference with NRA."
Johnson made clear his stand as
crisis was reached in affairs of
the NRA due to widening attacks.
Swope S plan was endorsed by ma
tional manufacturer groups under
the leadership of Henry /. Harri-
man, president of the chamber Of
commerce of the United States, who
warned of development of the NRA
into "just a government bureau-
cracy"
johnson said the Swope plan did
not propose any pattern for labor
organization because labor has the
right to select its own form of or
ganization.
Johnson statement was issued
after various objections to the plan
had been raised by those who saw
in 1T a menace to some strata OF
American society.
WASHINGTON, Nov. "A crisis
in the affairs of the NRA marked
by charges that it is meddlesome
and dictatorial was met today by
consideration of plan to turn code
administration over to a national
council of industrial leaders working
in conjunction with government Of
ficials.
The plan was advanced by Gerard
Swope, president of General Electric,
and provided that industry and COM
merce would police and regulate
itself, dealing with code violators
among its members even to the
point of turning them over for fed
eral prosecution.
Swope's proposal was presented to
the commerce departments business
advisory and planning council sooii
after adoption of critical resolu-
ton by the National Association of
Manufacturers, and a statement by
Henry I. Hartman, president Of the
Chamber of Commerce of the Uni-
ted States, that there was much
dissatisfaction" with the NRA's ac-
tivitieS.
The plan quickly won the endorse
ment of Administrator Hugh S.
Johnson, if it provided for CORES
ponding organization for labor 'all
the way through" and Swope ac-
cepted that in toto. Hartman also
endorsed the plan in principal as q
desirable alternative to possible fall
ure of the NRA through its becom-
ing lust a government bureaucra-
cy."
The Swope plan provided that
made up of regional trade associa-
tion representatives. 1t also would
include representatives of govern
ment departments, and maintain
extensive research and statistical
staffs. Johnson said the government
would exercise very direct and in
innate supervision" over the coun-
Gil.
This shift of emphasis to self
regulation Of business, rather than
government direction and superV-
sion, comedies with an impending
transforming tour by General john
son to seek greater public support
for the NRA. The reaction which
follows his trip may have bearing
on whether therei to be any ma
jor shift OF tactics in the recovery
drive.
KANSAS CITY, Mo, Nov. 2. WD
The Gerard Swope plan for ad-
ministration of the NRA by a ma
tional council of trade association
representatives will find favor gen.
orally with business men. predicted
w. NJ. Symon, executive manager OF
the Kansas City Chamber of Com
merce today.