The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-05-21
Socialism, For NRA
 Is Darrolv Proposal
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Johnson called for abolition of tho Uarr0w board. Darrow wants tho NItA administration abolished and tho fedornl trad0 commission substituted in It's place.
 Tho part tho report would play ID congressional dobat0 and tho fall elections was uncertain. But enc thing appeared inovitnble----that tho NRA was In for such n diBcus- sion and f0.Cxn minntlon as govorn- mental agencies have seldom had. It was noted thnt Of specific com plnints rnado by tho Darrow board concerning tho several codes studied tho NRA has already acted in Q number of instances to remove the grounds Of criticism. First nowspaper editorial crltl. eism was siding with Johnson in hls clalm that tho Darrow board had failed in It's objective which was the protection Of tho small busIness man against advantages to large firms created by tho rocoy- cry act.
 Old Colleague Against Him
 Joining the broIdside against Darrow, with as fiery criticism as tho 77.yoar.old attorney has evoked BInGo the day Of hts losing battle against William Jennings Bryan In tho Tennessee evolution trial, wore Donald RIehberg, once Darrows colleague, ad other oft- cors of the NRA.
 Darrow today was in hlS old role again, the famiiiar mantle of counsel for the defense. His do. fcnse of tho small business man was m indictment of the NRA.
 The count ho brought against tho NRA were that: Big business dominates the NRA, allowing the growth of monopoly and choking of small businesses.
 Each of tho MIRA codes studied suffers due to poor administration.
 The MIRA expresses consumers through sanction of higher prices.
 Darrow was winding up his Washington affairs today. He ap- peared little impressed by tho newest sensation he had created. That has been the stuff of which his life was made. Being attacked has been familiar to Darrow since the day he undertook the defense Of the miners in the Grant anthra. cite strike of 1909.
 Ho never expects to take an- other case.
 Darrow recommended transfer Of all code enforcement and fact finding to the federal trade com mission. At the same time antl- trust laws should be restored.
 Then, he believes, industry should Dc socialized the resources administered under planned, col. lectivs control.
 Immediate reaction from those who were instrumental in obtain ing creation of the board headed by Darrow was not forthcoming. Senators Gerald P. Nye, r., N D., and William F. Borah, r., Ida, who had criticized the MIRA for oppression of small business said they wished to study the bulky 322-page report and the answer by the MIRA.
 Here Is brief review of Dar- rows comment on the various codes studied:
 The electrical manufacturing in- dustry provides monopolistic con- ditions arising from control of patents and other long-standing factors.
 Small enterprises are oppressed under the rubber footwear code, which was made by the large companies for their benefit and for their benefit 1t is administer ed"
 Small enterprises in the motion picture industry arc "crueiIy op- pressed" The report declared the deputy administrator. Col. Rosen- blatt. in charge of this code, ap- parentiy Is prejudited against independents because of a legal connection with large companies.
 (Rosenblatt denied this. assert ing he terminated his legal con- nection when he went with the NRA.)
 The retail solid fuel code was drawn, and the code authority chosen, by members of the Ea- tional Retail Coal Dealers associa- ton, without representation Of coal dealers that were not members. The operation Of the code "tends tQ cypress the small enterprise" Tho American iron and Steel Institutcs whose directorate com prises tbe steel code authority, controls the steel industrys giving