Evening star., 1934-01-28
BY WILLIAM HARD.

BY WILLIAM HARD.
4 MOTHER topic of violent CONVEX
n sation In Washington is:
"A How red Is this admins
1 \ tration?"
The answer in some Repub-
lican circles is that this administration
Is red; that it even now Is two or
three thousand versts well along on the
road to Moscow. And some of this
administrators young liberal lions seem
thrilled by the thought. One of them
addressed local club here in Washing
ton the other day, and, in effect. re-
marked
1T is charged that the administra-
ton is facing Left I want to tell you
that 1t is not only facing Left but ad-
vancing Left And only an insider in
it knows just how adventurously and
fearlessly it is going to continue to
advance Left
This sort of thing congeals the blood
OF some Of the Republican cave dwell
ers. 1t congeals it and then it revives
and races it. 1t gives the Republican
party. they think, an issue"
On the other hand, there are Repub
licanS who are more realistic. One Of
them said to Gen. johnson of the N r.
A. the other day:
Taking Campaign Contributions.
What I don't like about you people
in this administration is that you are
taking our big Republican campaign
contributors away from us"
That Republican was regretting the
rapturous enlistment Of Myron c.
Taylor of the United States Steel Cor
poration and Of w. W. Atterbury
of the Pennsylvania Railroad in the
New Deal army. He was regretting the
plight of Republican United States
Senator David A. Reed of Pennsylvania
who must run for reelection to the
Senate in Pennsylvania this Fall with
the heads of Pennsylvania two most
important corporations committed pub
licly to Rooseveltianism. He was re-
GREETING the favorable attitude taken
toward many fundamental aspects Of
Rooseveltianism by most of the part
ners Of j. P. Morgan &, Co. He was
regretting the present abject poverty
Of the Republican National Committee
The studious inquirer is then brought
face to face with this puzzling problem:
What is 1t that has induced Mr.
Taylor and Mr. Atterbury and most of
the Morgan partners and so many of
the leading officers Of cur largest lum-
ber and coal and cotton textile and
other industrial corporations to start so
happily on the road to Moscow"
And this problem is accompanied by
another which is equally as puzzling.
as follows:
why is it that the principal Repub-
lican Tory United States Senators lie
sleeping and unassisting in their ham,
mocks in the Senate. while the attacks
on the N. r. A. are navigated virtually
exclusively by the farm bloc Republican
Senator Dickinson of Iowa and the ir-
regular Republican Senator Borah of
Idaho and the radical Republican Sem
ator Nye Of North Dakota? Why is it
that on the Republican side of the Sem
ates center aisle the march to Moscow
is resented and resisted chiefly by the
supposedly red-flecked wing of the Re
publican OUTFIT"
Well. the explanation may lie In the
fact that this administration seems to
have heard of Moscow. yes, but also of
lot of other towns.
Giving Work to Workless.
Secretary Harold Ickes and Harry
Hopkins are spending billions of money
giving work to workless workers through
the P. w. A. and the c. w. A. Left"
enough.
But consider the N R. A. in its in
slant surprising developments.
The germ cell of the N. r. A. was in
the industrial stabilization" bill intro
duced by Representative Clyde Kelly of
Pennsylvania during the Hoover admin
istration. He introduced it in harmony
with certain of the aspirations of John
L. Lewis trade union. the United Mine
Workers He and Mr. Jett Lauck and
Senator Wagner of New York and
Raymond Moley. when the Roosevelt
administration had taken office. did the
original political spade work for the
growing Of the N. r. A. plant. Their
primary purpose was that recovery
should be started and accelerated
through making pay rolls grow faster
than production or prices or profits.
Now Mr.. Kelly is irately armed with
statistics from the research section of
the Federal Reserve Board tending to
indicate that no such leftward progress
has occurred. Mr.. Kelly is a tense.
taut. dark-eyed. lean-visaged gentle
man. with working class constituency
in his home district and with an evan
gelical fervor in his political proleta-
rian endeavors. He now exhibits his
Federal Reserve Board statistics with
vibrant wrath.
They take the conditions of the nor
mal' year 1925 as their base. They
then go on to the conditions of the last
few months of the year 1888 They
thus contrast PREM R. A. with post
N. r. A. production and prices and en-
ployment and pay rolls. And what do
they show?
Wages Are Tagging.
They show that production in indus
try has returned to along about So per
cent Of the 1926 level. They show
that prices in industry have returned
to along about rs per cent of the 1926
level. But they show that the total
volume of wages actually paid and re-
ceived in industry has returned to only
about 50 per cent of the 1926 level.
That is, wages are tagging. The total