Evening star., 1934-11-25
NEW DEAL WINS ACCLAIM
OF EUROPEAN CRITICS
American Visitors and Diplomats Con.
vince Public That Recovery Program
Is Wise for u. S. and for World.

ration it would not have caused so
much surprise. To have the repre-
sentative of American big business
| frankly admit that a new deal was
both desirable end necessary has in
| jected an element of doubt into the
minds of Europeans serious doubt
as to whether the United States can
any longer be regarded as stanch
bulwark Of capitalism as 1t has hith-
erto existed.
That the entrance Of the United
States into the International Labor
Office will exert a deep influence upon
the future of that organization, can
not be denied. The labor Office is
different from the League; the latter
/ is almost entirely political: the for
mer is social, economic and cultural.
The problems the League is tackling
are fleeting. A change in governments
today can undo everything that has
been laboriously built up over a pc
riod of years. Peace pacts and en-
tentes and alliances are at the mercy
OF shifting political sands.
The objectives of the labor office
are different. 1t seeks to solve the
ago-old struggle Of class. of capital
and labor.
Fight to Be Resumed.
A few days before the announce
ment Of Washingtons probable af-
filiation with the I. L. o. was made
combination of employers and
government delegates killed a pro-
posal for an international 44-hour
week. An hour after Director Butler
had officially read the joint resolution
of the American Congress the same
groups set about frantically to resur-
rect it.
The haste with which government
delegations" deserted the employers
groups was ludicrous. The 44-hour
week convention was officially put
back on the agenda for 1885.
Which caused the British workers
delegate, Arthur Hayday, J. p, to let
loose a blast:
Il am saying little, but thinking
tremendously. I have bitter reflec-
tions particularly at the atti-
| bAaC Va l1iC ID ll4SAI SONCl
1t seems to me that after all Ma
chiavelli is triumphant the
fact that the British government, in
structing its delegate at Washington,
away back In 1919, to accept q 49,
hour week convention, has not yet
ratified that treaty, speaks louder
than words.
II can vision a form of heraldry
that heraldry would show
Machiavelli rampant, supported by
a crocodile pouring tears over its
| victims, and backed by Uriah Heap
and Micawber. That picture
would exactly fit the attitude of the
present British government and would
show them up in their true light as
nothing else has done"
And M. Leon Jouhaux, veteran
French trade union leader, who has
never missed an international con-
ference-be it labor or disarma-
mentor a decade and a half, was
inspired to say, SarcaStically:
Tomorrow the United States, as q
member of tie International Labor
Organization, will demand the adop-
ton Of a 44-hour week, to make uni
versal reform which already exists
in that country. You will have tc
accept that request, and what you re-
fuse the workers here today you will
have to grant tomorrow to the Gov
ernment of the United States.
When the United States has entered
the labor organization nothing can
prevent this question being raised
again, and next time with success"
Things which are happening over.
seas have taken on new meaning
of late. The New Deal at Washington
cannot much longer be distorted by
an inspired European press or reac-
tionary European industrialists and
governments. In Italy and Germany
censored press may prove effective
for time, but Fascist and Na1 re-
gimes inevitably pass.
1--WE may well hope that the worst
is now over" says Director Butler
But recovery Is very slow and cannot
be expected to accelerate unless a Wig.
orous effort toward international re.
construction Is made = 4" what is nov
wanted is a lead-a lead inspired
not merely by a nice calculation oi
immediate gains and losses, but by q
vision of the immense possibilities OF
the future.
1T is only by new start-a new
international deal-that the balance
between production and distribution
between industry and agriculture, the
stabilization of exchanges and the re-
sumption of international trade, can
| be achieved"