Evening star., 1933-06-08
BATTLE RESUMED
IN SENATE TO PASS
INDUSTRY CONTROL
NIGHT Session Planned to
Force Final Action on
Measure. Today.
so AMENDMENTS PEND
TO ADMINISTRATION BILL
Reed to Fight Licensing Provision
as Soon as Committee Changes
Are Disposed Of.
b. the Associated Press.

b. the Associated Press
Determined to remain in session until
late tonight If necessary to reach a vote,
the Senate today resumed debate on
the administrators industrial recovery
public works bill with roll calls immi-
nent On vital sections of the measure.
Contests over taxes, industrial licens-
ing and relaxation of antitrust laws
were ahead as the Senate met two
hours earlier than the usual noon con-
vening time in an effort to speed the
legislation to enactment.
This was the last major bill of the
momentous extra session to await a
Senate vote. Its passage was counted
upon to aid materially in permitting an
early adjournment of Congress-by Sat-
urday. President Roosevelt hopes.
50 Amendments Offered.
Fifty amendments had been offered
to the measure, most of them proposing
minor changes.
Those in charge of the bill looked
for serious contests only on amend
ments to substitute the sales tax or
Treasury notes for committee corpora
ton levies to finance the $4,000, 600, 900
public works program; to strike out the
presidential power to license industries
which would not follow majority in
adopting codes of fair competition, and
to eliminate sections setting aside anti
trust laws that stand in the way of
the purposes of the unprecedented in
dustrial experiment.
The first Important committee
amendment approved would make all
employees of the industrial administra-
tion receiving more than $4,000 a year
subject to confirmation by the Senate
Senator Tranmell, Democrat, of Flor
Ida succeeded in adding rider to this
to prevent any increases in salaries for
six months after enactment of the law.
Senator Reed, Republican, of Penn
sylvania announced he would move to
strike out the licensing provision as
soon as the committee changes in it
were disposed Of.
This is the most revolutionary sec
ton of the bill,' said the Pennsyl-
vanian. 'It is put in as an additional
threat to compel adherence to these
CoQeS OF compeLltlon.
Defended by Wagner.
'"These codes, once agreed upon by
industry and approved by the President,
have force of law and violations are
punishable by fine and Imprisonment.
THE administration insists upon add
ing to that this licensing system so
that by refusal of license an industry
may be punished further A mans
whole right to practice business is to
be taken from him by the President if
the processes of law are too slow to
permit the President to penalize any
person he wants to-"
To indicate the broad scope of the
bill. Reed said the President could es-
tablish a code of fair competition for
push carts"
Prompt in defense of the section.
Senator Wagner, Democrat, of New
York, one of the principal authors of
the bill, replied that what has dragged
industry down more than anything else
Is cut-throat competition, long hours
and starvation wages
I'VE are going to lift it up to wage
level Of comfort and decency," Wagner
went on. Most industries are dragged
down by a recalcitrant 10 to Is per cent
who work employees long hours at star
vaticn pay
That is the sweatshop business COM
petition we are trying to eliminate"