Imperial Valley press., 1933-11-01
PRESIDENT IS
CONFIDENT Of
MIRA PROGRAM
Certain OF Success Despite
Developing Criticism From
Various Sources.
SEVERAL AIDES TO RESIGN
Roosevelt Places Faith In Gold
Policy And Continuance Of
Unemployment.

WASHINGTON, Nov. /. U.P) -
President Roosevelt made clear to-
day in the midst of developing crit
icism that he feels that the drive
for recovery is progressing, both in
its monetary and unemployment
phases.
The White House reaction to the
recovery program status came as
governors of farm belt states hast
ened here to appeal for aid in the
direction of currency initiation, and
as financial circles remained un-
certain as to the success of the ad-
ministration IS gold buying policy.
The President is hopeful accord
ing to the White House, that gold
purchases abroad will raise the
general price level, and that while
a seasonal shift may occur in re-
employment, that along broad lines
the turn will continue upward
Other developments on the recov-
cry front:
l. Withdrawal of five members
from the NRA industrial advisory
board was explained as auguring
the start of a rotating method by
which leaders of industry may
obtain an inside picture of the
working of the NRA.
q Approval of codes for the Terra
Gotta industry, paint varnish indus
try. Approval of these codes
brought to 76 the number signed.
g. Allotment of more than $4,000,-
600 in public works funds for vari-
GUS non-federal projects in more
than a score of states.
Five leaders of big business who
,eft their private enterprises to
join the industrial board of the
recovery administration planned to
withdraw today.
Sudden announcement of their
decision climaxed fast moving Sc
ries of changes in the NRA picture
marked also by the revelation that
Henry Ford planned to comply with
the automobile code by submitting
wage and hour figures to the code
authority.
DissensiOn Denied
Gerard Swope. president of Gen.
eIal Electric, confirmed that he
would leave the industrial board
along with Walter C. Teagle, chair
man of the Standard Oil company
of New Jersey, James A. Moffett,
former vice president of the same
firm, Austin Finch of Thomasville,
N. c.. and one other. SWope de-
MED the other member would be
Louis KRISTEN of Boston.
SWope explained the move as a
part of a plan for rotating mem
bership on the board and Moffett
said he was quitting so he could
devote all of his time to the oil
planning and coordinating commit
tee of which he is member.
Gwen come back in few
months,'' Swope said. "MeanWhlle
new men will take our places. The
whole thing is designed to have a
salutary effect. . .. Dissension? Oh,
my goodness, no.
Ford S submission of reports on
wages and hours he is paying his
workers will be an act of affirma-
tive code compliance, but will not
of itself entitle him to blue eagle
and will not dispose of charges OF
alleged code violation through re-
fusal to give the workers the right
to bargain collectively through
representatives of their own choos-
ing. Johnson made this charge,
declaring that Edsel Ford told him
his father never would consent to
that provision of the code.
A report to the President by Sec
retary of Labor Perkins today
showed that average hourly wages
which increased in August contin-
ued TO gain in September. Miss
Perkins report said this was clear
ly due to NRA codes.