Red Lodge daily news combined with Carbon County news., 1934-09-05

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General Johnson said on Jul.
31st that the N. R. A. was respon
sible for the unemployment of 8
percent of the unemployed. TIL
president said that there were II,
100000 unemployed at the peak il
March, 1888. Thirty-seven percen
of 100000 is 100000. Mr.
Green says there are 8,439,000 un
employed. Therefore, Genera
Johnson, according to his estimate
has put back to work 1,000,0c(
more than are at work.
"On July 9Th, Secretary lckes
said that 544,0 men were en-
ployed by his P. w. A. program.
The C. C. C. camps have a quota
of 100000. The federal employees
have been increased by 10000 to
100000. Incidentally, this will
take care only of unemployed
Democrats. No Republicans need
apply. There are many more on
other projects. So it would be safe
to say that a million or more of
those who have been given work
cannot be put to the credit of the
N. R. A. That leaves them at best
only 100000 to show for their
wordy promises. 1t seems to me
that General johnson, to put it
mildly, is careless with his figures.
"This failure is primarily due,
as | see it, to two fallacies in the
N. R. A. conceptions. The first is
embodied in the fact that the N.
R. A. has increased the operating
costs of all businesses without
correspondingly increasing their
income. Most businesses had been
working either at a loss or close
to a loss. The additional expense,
therefore, spelt to smaller con-
Germs in a weak financial condition
economic death, and many of them
throughout the country have gone
to the wall, ceased operations, and
their employees have been thrown
out of work. The increase in en-
oloyment in larger oncerns has
offset this.
"An even more sinister aspect is
hat when the small concerns are
mashed the business is left in a
'ew hands. The N. r. A. fosters
monopoly.
"The operation of the N. R. A.
Itself tends to defeat its own ends,
or it automatically raises the
rice of products and therefore
wages are raised the
mount that can be purchased
is decreased. 1t is not
he dollars you have in your pock-
It but how much food or clothing
'ou can buy with them that
cunts.
"Not only has the N. R. A. failed
n its proclaimed purpose; it has
in its train practices that
n my opinion would make it OBJ
Ioxious even had it succeeded. 1t
las been obnoxious in the same
ashton that the prohibition law
vas obnoxious, for it has placed a
'remium on violation and through
his very fact has Slapped the
Moral attitude of the people.
"The A. A. A. and the processing
axes are so closely intertwined
hat it is impossible to consider
ne without the other. The avowed
Intention of this organization was
0 raise the price obtained by the
armers to a point where the far
ner's income would be sufficient
o purchase relatively the same
mount of goods as during, let us
ay, the five years preceding the
European war. With hat ambi-
of course all right thinking
are in complete sympathy.
'"This was to be accomplished by
reduction of produce. In order
o accomplish this a complicated
'olicy was adopted whereby a
'roup was made of basic commod-
ties. This consisted of such things
cotton, corn, wheat, hogs, rye,
vol and tobacco. Cotton, wheat,
orn, hogs and tobacco were Sc
ected for first attention.
"The government then arranged
associations, spreading
hem through the country where
yer these particular commodities
we're produced. Through these as
ociations it was arranged that a
ertain percentage of each crop
be plowed up or the ground
eft uncultivated. For this each
armer was paid a certain amount,
ased upon the productivity of his
arm. With hogs and corn it was
ecided to run the plan jointly, for
he crops n so intimately con-
-ected that independent action is
onsidered impossible. AS an
mergency measure the admins
ion last year offered special
remiums for a maximum of
our million healthy pigs be-
ween 25 and 100 pounds in weight,