The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1934-08-31
Some Think Relief Expen-
ditures May Reach Pro-
portions Unforeseen A
Year Ago
BY BYRON PRICE
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The relief problem again is
threatening 60 nose out all others
In The scramble for attention at
Washington.
Industrially, September has cast
no convincing shadow before it.
Cold figures do not promise, thus
far. the really big employment up
tuFn hoped for by the administra-
iion.
Some officials think relief ex-
penditaFes during the coming
winter may reach proportions en-
sireiy unforeseen q year ago.
Budget officials grow serious
when they view the prospect.
There is more and more talk that
President Roosevelt may have to
40 even deeper into the red than
he had planned.
As TO relief methods, the adj
ministrati0n merely is feeling its
way. and probably will continue
10 do so for some weeks to come.
A revival of CWA will be avoid
ed II possible, although something
very similar may be substituted.
johnson Wanted To Quit
Political implications adhere in
evitably To almost every act and
policy ia Washington, and the
latest NRA-Johnson episode is no
exception.
The truth is General Johnson
wanted TO quit, and almost every
enc concerned felt he probably
had completed the organization
Job for which he entered the gov
eminent service.
II was one thing. however for
him to slip out naturally, and
quite another. politically, for him
10 leave in a huff or under fire
from within the administration.
This is a campaign year, and
democratic political chiefs knew
an open break between Johnson
and the white Houes would be
widely interpreted as a repudia-
tion of NRA itself.
Johnson. on his side, is reported
half.willing tO become a sena-
torial candidate in Oklahoma IN
1886, opposing Senator Gore for
denomination. lie has no desire
10 make that race handicapped by
White House cold shoulder.
Perhaps these things had a
greater influence than was gen
orally realized in defeating the
effort 10 eject the general foreibly
"a development which completely
changed the whole picture over
night.
Strike Cause Confused
So much confusion and secrecy
surrounded preparations for the
textile strike that government
conciliators were compelled to do
a lot Of shooting in the dark.
Some of the union demands,
such as abolition of sweatshops
and union recognition, were so
elastic in meaning that it was hard
90 get at the real cause of the
dispute.
The investigators found the
trouble conferred almost entirely
ia the south, where neither en-
ployers nor employees are familiar
with the new unionized set-up in
augurated under NRA.
Underneath. the southern mill
owners were accused Of all sorts
81 "chiseling," including open
discrimination against union men.
The union leaders, in turn, were
accused of inexperienee and hot
medicines.
There was a feeling on the part
81 some New England and other
northern owners aud workers as
we'll that such a situation would
not have arisen in the long
uuionized north. and that if it did,
"a speedily could have been adj
iusied.
The n0rtherners ON both sides
agreed % go along, however, even
II many Of them did not fully UNI
deFstand. That made it all the
harder for the government to get
ga agreement.