Evening star., 1934-03-05
Halls New Deal
as Permanent
FOrceinU. S.
DICTATORSHIP
CHARGE DENIED
Labor's Collective
Bargaining Right
Is Defended.
BY G. GOULD LINCOLN.

President Franklin D. Roosevelt to-
day flung a challenge to American
industry.
1T is the immediate task Of in
dustry to re-employ more people at
purchasing wages and to do it now"
said the Chief Executive.
The Chief Executive was address
ing the General Conference of Code
Authorities and Trade Associations
Code Committees in Constitution Hall
at its opening meeting. He continued:
"Only thus can we attain recovery
and restore the balance We seek. 1t is
worth while keeping in the front of
our heads the thought that the peo-
pie in this country whose incomes are
less than $4,000 year buy more than
two-thirds of all the goods sold"
President Roosevelt's address to the
representatives of industry who are
meeting here in an effort to improve
the N. R. A. codes and code admin
istration was an appeal for team play.
He pointed out that a test was being
made today Ito find out how the busi-
ness leaders in all groups of industry
can develop capacity to operate for
the general welfare.
Personally" declared the President,
II am convinced with your help the
task is succeeding"
The President dubbed the N R. A.
and its codes representative govern
ment in industry" 1t is being carried
on, he said, without violation of the
constitutional or parliamentary system
% ;ct, l,a hoe ho-
come accustomed" He secuted the
suggestion, made by critics of the N.
r. A., that I'VE are now committed to
communism and collectivism or that
We have adopted facism and a die
tatorship."
Machinery Fails.
"The real truth of the matter" said
the President, rs that for a number
Of years the machinery of democracy
had failed to function" He said that
the operations of government had
fallen into the hands of special groups
and individuals.
The President declared that the real
purpose of the new deal, under which
the N. R. A. has been set up as an in
strument of reorganization, was not
only to bring back prosperity.
1T was far deeper than that" said
the President. The reorganization
must be permanent for all the rest of
our lives in that never again will We
permit the social conditions which
permitted the vast sections of our
population to exist in an un-American
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tion of wealth and power
He pledged the safeguarding of the
American consumer and OF small
businesses He demanded the free
choice" of the representatives OF
labor to carry on collective bargain
ing with employers.
Violations Scored.
And the President also made 1t
clear to his audience that the Gov
eminent will not tolerate actions
which are in violation of the national
recovery act and the codes set up
Hereunder. In this connection he
said:
I'VE have been seeking experience
in our first eight months of code max
ing: for that same reason we have
been tolerant of certain misunder-
standings, even when they resulted
in evasion in the spirit if not OF the
letter of the law Now We are mov-
ing into a period of administration
when that which Is law must be MADE
certain and the letter and the spirit
must be fulfilled
President Roosevelt closed his ad-
dress with a dramatic comparison
between the conditions that existed
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