Evening star., 1934-02-27
R|CHBERC REVIEWS.
SUCCESSOR N.R.A.
Re-emp|oying Of 100000
Claimed by Counsel in
Forum Talk.
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achieved its aim and Is nearing its
end. No tabulationS of customary
statistics will ever tell the true story
Of the first eight months Of the N. r.
A. Only the intimate analysis of the
reports which codified industries have
made to the Administration provide
the basis for a real understanding.
In round figures some 5000, 900 work.
ers have been re-employed with in
creased pay rolls approXimating
$4,000, ,OO0, 600 annually.
But these figures do not show the
effect Of stopping the downward spiral
Of the depression and the restoration
Of economic security to over 10000, 900
bread winners. Those figures do not
show the release of purchasing power
when wage cutting stopped. when
wage increases began, and when men
and women. who had been OH the
verge Of unemployment for long anx-
ious months, realized that at last the
strain was ended and that new era
Of more work and better wages had
begun.
These figures do not include the
rehabilitation of hundreds of occupa-
tionS which occurs when the family
physician and dentist are once more
not only consulted but also paid when
the seamstreSs and the general house.
work girl are re-employed; when pub
lie school teachers begin to collect
their unpaid salaries, and boarding
house keepers collect their bills; and
when apartments are reoccupied by
tenants who paw their rent But all
these unrecorded gains follow upon
a revival OF confidence and the in
creased sense Of security among the
employed, even without the stimulus
Of a substantial Unemployment.
The discredited prophets of disaster,
who now seek to belittle the N. r. A..
In order to hamper its future activity,
must also disregard its powerful serv-
Ice in cuShioning every recession of
business that has occurred in the pro-
cess OF recovery. Just three examples
will suffice
Increased Earnings.
While the Volume of business in the
iron and steel industry receded, rs 900
men were added to the pay rolls which
increased over S7,50000 per month.
When the cotton textile industry
lost headway while a temporary over
production was being absorbed. sta
bility was maintained through re-
duction of machine hours-until now
q new volume of output has restored
the industry to its proud position as
. leader in our recovery program.
When the season of increased pro-
duction arrived this Fall in the soft
coal industry. the code and it's COM
panion labor agreement went into ef-
feet; and. as result. during a period
Of industrial peace unknown for
generation, something like 100000
miners went to work with increased
pay roll amounting to about 100000
per day.
We have had an economic recovery
Of unprecedented speed as the direct
result of the first national planning
for recovery in our history. But any
one who delights in gloom can still
obtain reams of stale and inaccurate
statistics which have been prepared
by partisans of a discredited political
economy to support their dismal, but
self-satisfying, conclusion that the
N. r. A. has not accomplished much.
Such statistics are necessarily shot
full Of errors. omissions, guesses and
assumptions, because it is always diff
hcult to prove that which is not true
Happily most people have sense
"a hn
shining. even though professional mis-
euiders OF public opinion assure them
that it looks very much like rain.
Happily also most people remember
that the Old Dealers always took full
credit for prosperity; and in the days
Of disaster always assured us that
things would be much worse If We
did anything except to let the poor