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and seemingly helpless suffering and
inaction, it would be unforgivable to
pass up this opportunity of overcom-
ing this emergency.
Meanwhile, the work of organizing
and stabiizing industry to provide in
creased employment and improved la
Dor conditions and to eliminate the
unfair and destructive trade practices
which are crippling business will be
rushed forward through the method
Of specific codes. But this formal
process necessarily takes time, and
time was too precious to wait for each
industry to come forward with its own
code The emergency was too great,
the dangers of delay too ominouS. 1t
was necessary to crowd SAIL IN run
ming before the storm II the country
stands united behind this program, as
it always has in national crises, the
storm should never overtake us.
In this vast program to rehabilitate
industry and labor, the consumer must
not be forgotten. He is essential to
its success and his protection Is
matter of primary and acute concern.
Act Has Broad Purpose.
In the consideration of this program,
there has been a tendency to over
look the fact that while its immediate
objective is our economic recovery, it
has as its broader purpose perma-
nent program Of industrial planning by
which violent disorders may be avoided
in the future. This is not new idea.
F'arsighted business and industrial
leaders and economists have been
xl,;~ In o.
dies were urged during the depression
of 1921 and promptly forgotten when
business revived Possibly the suffering
of the last four years will live longer
in our memory, and such plan. which
Is essential to our economic welfare,
will become reality.
The spiteful thing about this mis-
cradle three years blight is its mock
ery of our common senSe-milllons
homeless in cities Of vacant houses,
ill-fed before full granaries. poorly
clothed in the presence Of abundance.
1t is conceivable that this desolate
picture may not rise to haunt future
generations if in the future we have
planned industrial development.
Misgivings and misunderstanding OF
the object Of the recovery act have
been created by the confusing advices
to industry that have emanated from
| Washington and the propaganda that
has been circulated about it. For ex-
| ample, circulars and other literature
purporting to come from labor union
agents have intimated that 1t is the
| purpose of the recovery act to m1on1ze
| labor, and the only way a worker could
benefit under it was by joining their
| union.
Nothing could be farther from the
truth. It is our duty to see that all
labor, whether organized or unorgan-
| lied, gets a square deal, and 1t will
fulfill that responsibility. But it is not
| our duty to act as an instrument for
unionizing labor, and no such action
| will be taken.
All these matters as they affect man
family" problems of an industry must
be settled before an industry submits
| its code. If there are any dissenting
| minorities they will be afforded ample
opportunity to present their objec-
| tions at the hearings that will be held
on all codes before the Government
acts on them. Should it so happen
| that difficulties within an industry
make it seem impossible or tend to de-
lay unreasonably the presentation Of
| its code, the law empowers the re-
| covery administration to hold hearings
and enforce code for such an indus
| try on cur own motion. This crisis de-
mands action, and in meeting it the
responsibility rests equally on manage
ment and labor.
When the industrial recovery act
was written, 1t was recognized that
there would be certain overlapping with
the agricultural recovery act. This
difficulty was met with a provision
authorizing the President to transfer
! such authority as he sees fit to the
Secretary of Agriculture. He has trans
ferred to the Secretary authority over
codes in the food, tobacco and dairy
industries, but only In so far as they
relate to trade practices. Authority
over labor conditions remains with the
Presidents Recovery Administration.
It will now be necessary for industry
and trade groups to satisfy both ad-
ministrations, not by filing trade agree
ments or codes separately, but by
| adopting trade and labor conditions
| that will meet the requirements of the
| two agencies working in collaboration.
This arrangement likewise Will prevent