The Bismarck tribune., 1934-10-01
TRIAL PERIOD FOR
M0PP|NC Up STRIFE
DIFFERENCES ASKED
Assures Business World New
Deal Is Out to Protect
Private Initiative
DEFENDS RECOVERY SETUp
Chides Critics Who Complain as
People Who Forgot There
Was a Storm

Washington, Oct. 1.-(R-President
Roosevelt applied himself Monday to
new experiments truce to warfare
between capital and labor, with the
government as the umpire.
Acting on plan he announced in
a "fireside chat to nation wide ra-
dio audience Sunday night, Mr..
Roosevelt is expected to summon
leaders of industry and organized la
Dor within few days.
He will seek to have them forego
strikes, lockouts or other methods Of
economic force for a specific trial
period Of industrial peace" He will
ask pledges to settle differences by
mutual agreement or, failing that, by
the elaborate mediation machinery
the New Deal has established.
Quick praise for the presidents
speech came from President william
Green Of the American Federation Of
Labor. Calling the address timely,
appropriate and impressive" he said
at San Francisco that the appeal to
industry and labor to use the gov
ernment for cooperative purposes is
pertinent"
Supports Profit Motive
The president, accounting for his
stewardship for the first time since
June, assured the business world that
the New Deal is out to protect ''indi-
vidual initiative and the incentive Of
fair profit"
without mentioning Herbert Hoover
or other critics who see "regimenta-
ton" and dangers to liberty In the
present governmental trends. he said:
II am not for q return to that def
milton Of liberty under which for
many years free people were being
gradually regimented into the service
Of a privileged few.
II prefer and am sure you prefer
that broader definition Of liberty un-
der which we are moving forward to
greater freedom, to greater security
for the average man than he has ever
known before in the history Of Amer
ica."
AS for the industrial armistice, the
president said:
From those willing to Join In es-
tablishing this hoped-for period Of
peace, shall seek assurances Of the
making and maintenance OF agree
ments, which can be mutually relied
upon, under which wages, hours and
working conditions may be deter
mined and any later adjustments
shall be made either by agreement or.
in case of disagreement, through the
mediation or arbitration of state Or
federal agencies"
Asks Labor Capital Truce
He said he would not ask either
employers or employees permanently
to lay aside the weapons common to
industrial war;" but he will request
them to give fair trial" to peace
full methods.
OF NRA. the president declared
that substantial gains" had been
made under it. As it moves into its
second phase, he said, It will be
modified where necessary. Congress
will be asked to make permanent NRA
functions (which have proved their
worth
He said there may be serious ques-
ton of the wisdom of many devices
for control Of prices or production.
On the unemployment question, MI.
Roosevelt said he would stand o.
fall by my refusal to accept as nee
essary condition Of our future q per-
manent army Of unemployed"
Those who say that our expcndi-
lures for public works and other
means for recovery are waste that
we cannot afford" he said, Il answer
that no country, however rich, can
afford the waste Of its human re-
sources"
He chided those critics who 'com-
plain that all we have done Is un-
necessary and subject to great risks
Forgot There Was Storm
Nov that these people are coming
out Of their storm cellars, they forget
that there ever was Storm" he said.
q. They would have you believe
that England made progress out OF
her depression by q do-nothing pol
icy, by letting nature take her course.
did England let nature take her
course? No! Did England hold to
the gold standard when her reserves
were threatened? No! Has England
gone back to the gold standard to-
dy? No! Did England hesitate to
call in ten billion dollars Of her war
bonds bearing per cent interest, to
issue new bonds therefor bearing only
81 per cent interest, thereby saving
the British treasury $l50.000O00 q
year In interest alone? MOI"
And let it be recorded that the
British bankers helped" he added.
The executive also struck at those
who object to some New Deal steps
as unconstitutional