The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-06-10
NATIONAL RECOVERY BILL IS
PASSED BY THE SENATE With
IMPOSING MAJORITY. 57-24
Marks Radical Departure From Demo-
cratic Theory-Public Works, Con-
troll of Industry Provided
By HARRY FERGUSON
United Press Staff Correspondent


United Press Staff Correspondent
WASHINGTON. June 10 (UP(
The senate last night passed
President Roosevelt's national in
dustrial recovery bill which sub
stitutes cooperation and long
range planning for Americas
traditional business philosophy of
the survival Of the fitteSt.
The vote was 81 to "a.
Four days debate was all the
senate required on this-the most
momentous piece of legislation
passed by a special session of
congress that has whisked world
shaking bills through to enact
ment as fast as the white house
has sent them up to capitol hill:
The house already has approved
the industrial recovery bill which
now must go to conference for
adjustment of minor differences.
The senate's action last night
was an unqualified triumph for
President Roosevelt and his
"brain trust" who have urged
upon congress the necessity of
departing from long-standing
Democratic principles. n e W
methods, they argued. must be
devised to meet new problems
problems that never existed in
the days when Thomas Jeffer-
son was evolving his theories of
individual liberty.
Opponents were quick to point
out that no longer can Democrats
cling to the principle that "that
government is best which gov
ems least" for this bill virtu-
ally sets up the federal govern
ment as a potential partner in
every butcher shop, department
store and steel mill i'll the Uni
ted States.
The shadow of another Roose-
velt-T. R. the trust buster-lay
across the senate as the bill was
pushed to a vote. For the IN,
dustrial recovery bill relaxes the
very laws which Theodore Roose-
welt championed with his "big
stick" the antitrust legislation
Mindful of the act that the
Democratic platform at Chicago
called for stringent enforcement
of the antitrust laws, the adj
ministration nevertheless w a
forced to make concession
There was no way, experts said,
in which they could invite a
manufacturer to combine with
others in the same industry to
regulate production. wages and
working hours and then turn
around and prosecute him under
the antitrust laws.
Another radical dep + u e
from Democratic theory is a sec
ton of the bill which empowers
the president to raise tariffs on
foreign goods if they are COM
peting unfairly with domestic
products. He can go even fur
Their and declare a complete EN-
barge on imports, something that
high tariff Republicans never
dreamed of doing in the days
when they were flushed with
power.
All this is done because the
bill sets forth on its first page
that the nation is in state of
emergency, something compar-
able to war. The foe is the de-
preston, and against that foe
the bill hands these weapons to
the administration:
l. A $3OO,OOO,0OO public works
program for the construction OF
roads, bridges, buildings. This
is designed to sponge up 3,oo0,-
600 of the 100000 men who
are willing to work but are I'M
able to find employment.
This will be under control of
a board of three men appointed
by the president and confirmed
by the senate. Of the $780,
100000. $40O,000,000 must be
spent on road construction. The
theory behind the public works
program is that the increased
employment will put purchasing
power in the hands of persons
who have been unable to buy
since boom times.
2. The industrial control Sec
ton of the bill is designed to
lessen the shock of the business
cycle which carries the nation to
the peaks of prosperity and then
toboggans it into the valley of a
depression. 1t seeks to freeze
production at somewhere near its
present level and thus prevent a
vast surplus to shorten hours and
fix minimum wages. Three mil
lion more men will be put back
to work by this section, the adj
ministration hopes.
Advocates of the. cooperative
plan say that competition must
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