Evening star., 1933-11-03
Says Counter Suggestion
Shows Industry Unable to
Agree on Common Move.
PRINCIPLE OF ALTERNATE
POLICY GETS BOARD O. K.
Clarification of N. R. A.-Ford Case
Sought Here-Import Else
Hints of New Action:
BY the Associated Press.

AoDoA SioAACo W nave IOuQQ proc
today for its predictions that busines.
could not agree to the single organiza.
ton proposed in the industrial plan ol
Gerard Swope.
Spokesmen for organized worker.
based this view on an announcement BY
Robert L. Lund. president of the Ma
tional Association Of Manufacturers
that "a national organization such q,
is envisioned by the Swope plan, sci
up to administer the codes with semi
governmental authority. could not log
ically handle such questions with the
best results to industry and business.
Shortly after Lund issued this state
ment, Swope made public a resolution
which he said had been approved by
the Commerce Departments Business
Advisory and Planning Council, oi
which he Is chairman. It said:
THE members Of the council have
noted with qualification an improvement
In industrial activity and a wider spreac
Of employment through recent months
despite the difficulties that had to be
Surmounted. The council pledges its
continued efforts in assisting the ad-
ministration to solve the problems thai
are still ahead. to the end that the basic
objectives of the N. R. A-reduction ir
unemployment and increase in purchas-
ing power-may be sooner achieved"
Trade Freedom Asked.
The council appended the expressed
belief, however, that business should
remain free Of governmental interfer.
ence and control" as it sought the CON
tinuance and advancement Of the Amer
ican standard of living"
There was no let-up, meanwhile, ir
union labor opposition to the Swope
plan Apparently it sided at least in
part with Lund, that there was no need
for change now other than enlargement,
of the present recovery staff.
Business and labor alike wanted clari-
fcation today of the N. r. AS attitude
toward Henry Ford. Hugh S. Johnson
recovery administrator, had said moth.
ing furthe. since announcing severa
days ago that II he found Ford violating
the recovery law he would submit the
case te the Attorney General
u
out of town, Senator Wagner, chair
man of the National Labor Board, said
there was no question but that Ford
was agreeing to collective bargaining
at his Edgewater, N. j., plant.
Agrees to Give Figures.
Ford already had agreed to supply
wage and hour figures sought under
the automobile code, the only Other
point on which officials had ques-
toned his compliance.
There remained doubt, however. as
to whether johnson would hold Fore
eligible for Government contracts ol
whether he would leave that to a ruling
by Controller General McCarl.
Lund, in revealing the dlherence o.
opinion over the Swope plan, which
exists within industry itself, indorseo
resolutions adopted by an Advisory
Committee of manufacturers national
trade associations in New York this
week. He criticized recent rulings re-
lating to the administration of codes
and said the policies of the National
Labor Board tended to prevent prompt
and peaceful local settlements OF in
dustrial disputes" but he added that
there was no need for change in the
covery Administration now, further
than to enlarge the present staf1.
Lays Uncertainty to Delay.
Lund attributed uncertainty in the
minds of business men largely to de-
lay in framing and approving codes
under the Agricultural Adjustment Ad-
ministration.
He advocated continuance of the
practice which is essentially In effect
now, under which trade bodies are
designated as code authorities.
Lund said industrial organizations
ought to have the double function OF
helping to administer the codes and
at the same time keeping themselves
free to agitate for and deal with such
questions as Government economy, Gov
ernment competition with business and
taxation.
"It seems certain" he said, that a
national organization such as is en-
visioned by the Swope plan, set up to
administer the codes with Semi-govern-
mental authority. could not logically
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