The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-12-20
Mob Burns Tennessee Courthouse
BUSINESS AND INDUSTRY in
CONFERENCE CALLS FOR NEW
LAWS AND VOLUNTARY CODES
New Legislation Would Include Continuance Of Regu-
lations Over Maximum and Minimum Hours and
Prohibition of Child Labor
WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS,

/, WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS,
w. Va, Dec. 20.-(UP)-Enact-
ment of new emergency legisla-
ton for one year with NRA codes
on a voluntary basis was recon-
mended last night by the nations
foremost business leaders.
A resolution covering business
and industry's attitude toward the
NRA was the most knotty ques-
ton before the joint conference
called by the U. S. Chamber of
Commerce and National Manufac-
turers association to plan a re-
covery program.
Agreement on a balanced fed
eral budget, standard dollar
and a major offensive in the
durable goods industries to put
the unemployed back to work had
been reached earlier.
C. B. Ames,. chairman of the
board of the Texas company and
conference chairman, will present
detailed report of the meeting
to President Roosevelt in Wash
ington, possibly today.
The conference agreed that en-
ployers as whole should be un-
der code regulations Gin order to
prevent or correct conditions
which all responsible employers
condemn"
New NRA legislation should re-
quire every code to continue the
present regulations over maxi
mum hours and minimum hours
and to prohibit child labor, the
resolution said.
Business and industrial leaders
stressed that both labor and en-
ployers should be safeguarded by
giving workers the right to bar
gain "either individually or col
lectively, directly or through rep
resentatives of their own free
choice without intimidation or
coercion of either party from any
source"
Approval of the sound func-
tioning of a competitive system
was expressed in a resolution pre-
pared by a committee headed by
John ]. Raskob.
The program took issue with
New Deal labor policies. On the
subject of industrial relations the
conference said:
Labor cannot share what is
not produced. Arbitrary determi-
nation and limitation of hours and
wages as proposed in such mea-
sures as 30-hour-a-week bills ig-
more this fundamental principle.
"The federal government
should not assume or attempt to
to control local relationships be-
tween employees and employers.
Employees and employers
should be free to bargain collec-
lively or individually in such
forms as are mutually satisfac-
tory to them without coercion
from any source.
"There should be no attempt to
lessen, through legislative restric-
tions upon particular kinds of or
carnations, the freedom of en-
! ployes in determining the form of
, any organization for the purpose
of collective bargaining.
"Men should be protected in
their right to work as well as in
their right to strike"
The reference to legislative re-
striction on particular kinds of
labor organization touched on a
fundamental conflict between
capital and labor under the MIRA
majority representation. ~
Defining still further manage
ment's views on labor, the resolu-
ton added:
"Workers also should be pro-
tected in their right to join or to
refrain from joining any labor
organization.
"The test of what is in the pub
lie interest should apply to the
acts of employees as we'll as Of en-
ployers. We believe that sympa-
thetic or general strikes or lock-
outs, blacklists and boycotts
should be prohibited"
On the highly important sub
ject of business financing, the
conference said:
"Any definite action by our
government to establish as soon
as practicable a standard dollar
with fixed and unvarying gold
content will be of Unreasonable
benefit to business.
| The resolution linked such &C
ton in Importance with the neces-
sity for understanding between
the United States and other i'm
portant commercial nations on
sterilization of external exchange.
! "It is of the greatest import
ance to business" the resolution
added, "that banks in which its
deposits are placed by privately
| owned and managed, under the
supervision of existing agencies
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