The Washington times., 1934-07-18
6-MONTH' REST
FOR INDUSTRY
PREVENTED
Presidents Scheme to Build
Better Foundation for -.
Recovery Is Wrecked
BY GEORGE r. HOLMES
International News service

International News Service
The industrial warfare that
RACES from coast to coast, upset
ting business and affecting many
millions of people, is defeating one
Of President Roosevelt's pet plans.
Long ago Mr.. Roosevelt planned
to give the country a rest" after
the expiration of the Seventy
third Congress, which framed the
vast array of emergency laws to
combat the depression.
Before leaving Washington on
his Hawaiian cruise, he said he
realized that from the very out
set of his administration-that
black March 4 in 1933-the ma
ton had been in a constant state
of suspense and uncertainty. He,
thought it needed rest and that
with himself away, Congress gone,
and administrative and legislative
uncertainty ended the country
would get it.
Hurried Session Ends
He set the period at six
months, and to that end person.
ally. appealed to congressional
leaders to wind up the session in
mid-June so that business and
industry would have an uninter-
rupted period Of six months in
which to digest the New Deal
laws and settle down to the long
pull toward recovery.
To intimates he pointed out
that bankers now know where
they stand, the industrialists can
plan ahead under the wings of
the Blue Eagle, that agricultur-
lists know what is in store for
them through the AAA, and so on.
He believed that with the uncer.
tainty ended, that with assur-
ance there would be no new laws
for at least six months, more
progress would be made toward
real recovery than in the proceed
ing year.
Unless the far.flung strikes are
soon ended, Mr.. Roosevelt's cher.
ished hope is going to be knocked
into a cooked hat.
Business ParaIyZed
The general strike in San Fran
cisco, and the specific strikes
elsewhere in that area, have virtu-
ally paralyzed business on the Pa
ctfic Coast. The Pacific Coast
strikes have already cost untold
millions, and it will take some
time for recovery.
Portland is strike-ridden, even
though the threat there of a
general strike is fading.
National Guardsmen have been
called out in Minneapolis to deal
with a renewed truckmen's strike,
which is retarding business in
the upper Midwest.
In the deep South, thousands
Of textile workers have walked
out. crippling to some extent the
business boom that the South has
been experiencing.
Even in the so-called model
industrial city" of Kohler, Wis,
workers have struck and pickets
are plodding about the plants.
The number of smaller and
sporadic strikes is almost meal
culable.
Hardly an hour passes that does
not bring to the Department of
Labor tidings of some new labor
disturbance somewhere in the
country.
Officials Concerned
Some administration officials
are deeply concerned. Others are
inclined to take a more phil.
osophical view Of it and remark
that perhaps it is a ,"healty sign"
on the general theory that it is
the recovering patient who kicks,
not the dying patient. The num-
Der who hold that latter view,
however. are small.
In any event. there is little
question but that this widespread
industrial warfare is putting the
brakes on the wheels to national
recovery in a way that admin.
iStration officials never dreamed
of when the seventy-third Con-
greSS folded its weary hands and
went away from Washington a
month ago.