The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-05
c. 0. P. DISMAY
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Business Leaders View on
Tariff Is Blow; Issues Do
Not MateriaIize..
BY RUTH FINNEY
Times STAFF Writer.

AlHfh oAdh NAtAff-
WASHINGTON, May 5.-Repub-
leans hoped a whole crop of cam
psign issues would sprout from the
annual meeting Of the United States
Chamber Of Commerce.
Business leaders came and went.
leaving the party Of business moth
ing but husks for comfort. The
most radical administration of re-
cent years emerged from this going
over with one Of the mildest YER
diets the Chamber has ever turned
in.
Not harsh criticism of the re-
Covery program was contained in
resolutions adopted by the chamber.
recommended changes were couched
ln general and conciliatory terms.
The chambers resolutions even Dor
rOWed some Of the phrases of the
brain trust. Reading them. the Re-
puOlIcans weren't sure whether their
old allies had undergone a change
NJ heart or simply sbqred the gen.
oral belief that Mr.. Roosevelt is too
popular TO attack
Tariff View Hard to Take
The chambers statement on tariff
was the hardest blow at all. Senate
Republicans are laboring to make
an issue Of the Presidents recipro-
cal trading bill But the chamber
said the pending legislation a..
can have beneficial results if the
provisions already added. including
opportunity for interested industries
to be heard before their situation is
changed. are supplemented with a
provision assuring our industries
that they Will not be placed at dis
advantage in their home market"
The administration air mail
policy, which some Republicans feel
is their best bet, was not even men
toned.
The chamber did take isue with
the administration by affirming that
that modification of the securities
act and additional improvement"
of the stock market bill are neces-
sary for business recovery. But the
Republicans already have learned
that there is no safe basis for a
campaign in thse issues. The reso-
lutions didn't even mention "regi-
mentation.' possibly in view of
General Hugh S. Johnson's state
ment at Columbus that NRA has
spent much of its time warding off
urgent industrial please for just
that
Company Union Tilted
Most surprising. in view of past
UtteranceS, was the Chambers dis
CT IN of collective bargaining.
In the exercise of the right to
organize and to bargain collectively
through representatives of their own
choosing, employees should be free
from coercion or restraint from any
source said one of the resolutions.
There should be no attempt in any
degree to lessen, through legiSla-
tive restrictions upon particular
hlLlCS Ol OI SdIllLdlIOll. lIlG 1IGeQOLu
OF employees in determining the form
of any organization created volun-
tarily for collective bargaining"
In choosing this way to argue
against legislation banning the
company union, the chamber has
cspoused a principle it p robably
would have called radical a year
ago.
Johnson Is Critical
General Johnson. hurting brick
bats in the general direction of the
departing business men. indicated
that adherence to this principle is
still to be demonstrated.
The law requires management to
keep their hands absolutely off the
choice of representation by their
employees" he said. 1T IS the eX-
ception rather than the rule where
they have done this completely
NRA'S first big legal fight. in the
Weirton case just argued in Will
mingtOn. turns on this point.