The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-05
JOBS NATIONS
NEED, Warning
OF ROOSEVELT
President Launches Second
Year With Plea for
NRA Support.
MAKES LONGEST SPEECH
Shorter Hours, Higher Pay
Is Urged; Denies Trend
Toward FaSCiSm.
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WASHINGTON, March 5-Presi-
dent Roosevelt today launched a
new recovery drive before thou
sands in Constitution hall who
cheered his demand for more jobs
and applauded his assurance that
the country is heading neither to-
ward Communism nor FasciSm.
Mr.. Roosevelt spoke before 5000
representatives of code authorities
He asked industry further to short
en- hours of labor and to increase
hourly wage scales. The treasury.
he said, can not forever carry the
unemployment burden.
With that plea was a summons to
the people TO impose fair practices
upon the selfish few
When the President concluded his
address to the main meeting, he Wis
tied an overflow meeting of code
authorities in the other end of the
large Constitution hall and greeted
them with these words:
Longest Speech in Year
MY friends. I am glad to greet
you here. I think you are going to
have an extremely interesting week.
incidentally, 1 am going to let
you in on a secret. The speech that
I have just made is the longest one
In the whole of the past year.
However, it was for a worthy
cause and 1 meant every word
said. I believe we Will go forward
with the prograss already made I'M
der the NRA. These meetings will
do more to put us back where we
belong than any other thing of
which I know"
In his main speech, Mr.. Roosevelt
promised summary government ac-
ton against sO-called chiselers.
Through his speech, the longest in a
year, ran thread of optimism and
assurance. The recovery test, he
said, is succeeding.
Launches Second Year
With this plea today to delegates
of cOde authorities whose industrial
and commercial plants employ 90
per cent of American labor. Mr..
second year of his administration.
Think back a year ago. he told
his audience.
You know where the banks stood
at that time. You know where your
own business stood
And if the banks come along. my
friends, We will have the three great
elements of American life working
agriculture. industry and
the banks. Then we can't be
stopped"
AS the President moved to the
overflow meetin. Donald r.
Richberg, general NRA counsel.
told the code authority delegates
that NRA is the alternative to die
tatorship.
Urges Credit Expansion
Eight months of hurried and ad-
mittedly experimental cOdification
of industry preceded the admins
tratiOn'S move today for revision Of
the greatest industrial experiment. |
Mr.. Roosevelt and Mr.. Richberg
Clung to the Democratic idea. They
challenged critics who foreSee
fasciSm or communism developing
from the social and political seeds
Sown by the new deal
The President departed from his
text only to emphasize the respon-
Sibiuties of the banks. His pointed
and questioning language-"and if
the banks come along"-waS COM
posed at the last moment Those
words added to a plea for industrial
reform and more efficient self gov
eminent an unmiStakable demand
that the banks provide for industry
and business the credit which is
vital to recovery.
Seats in both auditoriums we're
filled long before the President left
the White House four blocks from
the assembly awaiting him.
Music and flags provided gay
background for Mr.. RoOsevelt'S
solemn warning that the country's
need is Jobs, Jobs and more Jobs.
Introduced by Johnson
Recovery Administrator Hugh S.
johnson spoke SIX words to open the
momentouS NRA conference.
The President of the United
States said Mr.. Johnson.
Mr.. Roosevelt arose. The second
year of the new deal had begun.
Flashlights doomed. Movie cam
eraS clicked and the 5000 represent
tatives OF code authorities applauded.
A moment previously they had re-
peated the Lords prayer in unison
as led by the Rev. Re Barney Phil
lips, chaplain of the senate, who
said the benediction.
The red coated army band had
entertained the audience for al
hour with semi-claSsical selections,
and finally vociferous rendition of
Who's Afraid of the Big, Bad
Wolff"
All members of the audience had
seats. Guards allowed none to stand
in the rear Of the vast hall.