Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1934-09-27

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WOULD LIMIT THE NEW DEAL
MANUFACTURERS PLAN TEST
Announcement that the Navy vii
stage its war game in the Northern
Pacific next summer emphasizes TIL,
uncertain condition existing in tina
ocean Naval experts insist tina
Japan's present navy is ample to de
Tend the Island Empire from inva
sion and protect its communications
with Manchukuo. They are unable
10 explain Japan's insistence for an
equal navy in terms of defense and
consequently, are using every en-,
deavor to keep Il navy in the Pa.
cific, prepared for war.
The strategic importance of AL
aska has been recognized for years
and 1t may become more important
on account of its close proximity to
Asiatic Russia and Japan. Recent
flights by Army and Navy planes,
described as routine, raises some
speculation. There now exists a
submarine base at Dutch Harbor and
the possibility of enlarging this base
is seen. Most people fail to realize
that a direct journey from Japan to
our Pacific coast would carry the
japanese fleet very close to Alaska
and. therefore. minimize the import
nee of adequate defense measures
somewhere along the Aleutians,
thinking that the Hawaiian Islands
provide adequate protection.
President Roosevelt will probably
take the air (f he has not already
done SO by the time this Is printed),
10 discuss the increasing gravity OF
the Emergency Relief situation. The
number of persons ON relief rolls In
June was 16, 1000, 900, comprising A.
234.0O0 eases (families and single
pers0ns). This is about thirteen per
cent OF our population.
In July, 3,830.900 families were ON
relief, and In February it is expect
ed that the total will be around s.
000. 900. Interesting is the state
ment that more than one-half of the
ten million persons on urban relief
rolls are o only employable but a
large number are actually at work.
Some have part-time and a few have
full-time Jobs, but receive relief to
supplement wages insufficient for
support
Harry Hopkins feels that workers
on full time should receive adequate
wages and therefore should not be
on relief. Moreover, the high per
centage of qualified men and women
able and willing to work, shows that
our relief rolls are not made UP OF
the in~capacitated or permanently un-
employables.
The nations leading industrialists
recently met behind closed doors at
Hot Springs, Va, to formulate a plan
for scrapping most of the New Deal
and all of its works. Formulated by
the group of economists, statisticians
and industrialists, the new program
would practically abandon every out
standing piece of emergency legisla-
lion. including the Securities Act,
the Stock Market Regulation Act,
and the policy OF making direct
to industry. Under govern
ment supervision, In the form OF car
tells, it would provide for monopol-
Istic control OF certain industries,
give a maximum power OF self regu-
lati0n and self administration with
government supervision.
The industriaIists would halt the
program for social secur- |
including unemployment insur-
ance. old-age pensions, and Federal
lid TO states which adopt such pro-
grams. Moreover, the industrialists
contend that wages are too high In
many lines, that regulation OF maxi
mum hours of work should be elm
that minimum wages should
be allowed only to protect workers
a standard Of living below that
safe for society" All
Federal labor boards would be abol-
shed and mediation permitted only
n cases of national Importance
Apparently one of the big issues
% be settled in the near future Is
he clash between the National La
,or Relations Board and manufact-
In all lines. The Board up
,olds its decision that where EN-
hold an election, the majority
-uIe must govern and representa-
ion of the workers. under this prin-
.iple, must be recognized by employ
srs. The manufacturers wish to
substitute the plan OF proportional
representation and the struggle will
ind most employers against the
ruling.
A large engineering corporation
ras found guilty OF interfering with
he organization OF its employees and
II falling to recognize the union set
lp by the workers as their agent In
objective bargaining. The Labor
}oard recommended that the Blue
OF the company he removed
md that the Attomey-General pro-
'eed against ii for violating Section
OF the Recovery Act.