Evening star., 1934-09-26
President Also Takes Up
Textile Strike Protest
on Return.
RESIGNATION ACCEPTED.
SERVICES BEING PRAISED
c. of c. Not to Get Answer to
Questions, Executive Indicates
at Press Farley.
By the Associated PreSs

President Roosevelt upon his re-
turn to the White House today said
he would take up immediately-prob-
ably late today-the question Of N.
r. A. reorganization and the protest
from textile strikers Of discrimination
by employers.
At his desk in the White House, the
President talked with newspaper men
in q regular press conference after
his return from his stay at Hyde
Park, N Y.
He did not refer to his letter of last
night accepting the resignation Of
Hugh s. johnson as recovery admin
istrator
The President emphasized again
that the reorganization Of N. r. A.
would be of an evolutionary nature
and that changes would be made from
time to time on the basis Of trial and
experiment.
Asked about the questions submitted
to him by the Chamber Of Commerce
of the United States, the President
said he did not have time to answer
all questionnaires put to him by va
rious organizations.
Chamber Not to Get Reply.
He said that in reading the questions
of the Chamber of Commerce he was
reminded of the lawyer who puts the
question in the form:
Have you stopped beating your
wife?"
Little doubt was left that the Cham
Der of Commerce would not receive
reply from the President.
The Presidents special train ar
rived at the Union Station at 8:45 am.
A small crowd of bystanders, just out
side of the high steel fence separating
the tracks from the ground alongside
the station, cheered his arrival
Mr.. Roosevelt offered no comment
on the protest of the textile strikers
that those who struck were being dis
eliminated against, but said he was
going to look into it today. He pro-
posed that employers re-employ the
textile strikers without discrimination.
Job Held "Superfluous."
In his resignation, accepted by Mr..
Roosevelt before leaving Hyde Park,
Johnson wrote cordially to the Presi-
dent that with the reorganization Of
N. r. A. his job would be "superfuous."
Calling him Dear Hugh" and
praising his services highly, Mr.. Roose-
welt accepted the resignation, effec-
tive October IS. Both letters spoke
of new duties" for johnson in the
New Deal in the future.
The Presidents plans for the new
N. r. A. set-up call for important
changes in the recovery units ma
chinery and, in the opinion of many
observers, in its policies also.
Industry, labor and consumers all
over the United States are waiting tc
hear what the changes are. There is
every sign the President will announce
them shortly.
The new set-up has taken form in
the midst of terrific pressures. Many
business leaders have been demanding
more of a hands-of policy; labor
chiefs, some of them crying for john
sons scalp, have been seeking greater
strength for workers, a 30-hour week
and the right to initiate code changes;
others have been denouncing "monop
oily" and 'price-flxing.
Board to Frame Policies.
Only the broadest outlines so far
have been limited by Mr.. Roosevelt
1t is indicated there will be one
board to frame policies, another
group of regents to do the actual
administering, with judicial functions
transferred probably to the Justice
Department.
Whether the resignation of John
son means that the recovery unit Is
veering toward liberalism" or toward
conservatism" only the future can
say exactly. johnson was considered
farther Ito the right" than some
other high officials, though plenty of
criticism came his way from the
conservative camp.
Some labor leaders-including the
heads of the United Textile Workers
and insurgent chiefs of the steel
| union-had yearned for his passing
from power. A recent speech. In
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