Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1934-12-03
INDUSTRY OPENS
RECOVERY FARLEY
Leaders Desire Program
That Will Command
United Support.
BY CLAUDE A. JAEGER,
Associated Press Financial Editor,

Associated Press Financial Editor.
NEW YORK. December 3.-High
chieftains of industry are holding one
of their biggest pow-wows in years
this week, intent upon taking their
places on President Roosevelts all
American recovery team. and at the
same time presenting their program
TO defeat depression.
Today is the first Of four days of
sessions at the Waldorf Astoria. spon-
sored by the National Association Of
Manufacturers. which has called q
congress of American industry =
to formulate a program upon which
it can stand unitedly."
That cooperation with the ad-
ministration will be the keynote goes
without saying. 1t has been the fash
ion at such gatherings since the Amer
lean Bankers Association Convention
in Washington six weeks ago, where
President Roosevelt called for his all
American team" from an alliance of
business and banking, agriculture
and industry, labor and capital"
Big Questions at Stake.
Nevertheless. with such momentous
questions as the future of the N. r. A.
coming before the Congress in Wash
ington next month, the industrial
leaders have called together their little
congress" as a sounding board for
a program Of their own.
Many of the industrialists say they
are fully aware that such sweeping
congratulations as demands for AN
immediate balancing Of the budget"
or IAN end to Government interfer-
ence" will not suffice.
Administration spokesman have as
serted that the Government is ready
to retire from the normal fields of
individual initiative as soon as busi-
ness will take up the slack through
providing employment and capital.
Donald R. Richberg, heac of the
Presidents National Emergency Coun-
Gil, has been travelling about for weeks
making public speeches to business
men and attending private dinners
with business leaders. and Raymond
.
has been meeting privately with small
groups Of executives. Both will ad-
dress the sessions this week.
But while stressing their willingness
to cooperate, the program Of the
four-day conclave calls for consider
alton of a number of New Deal aspects
which many business leaders assert
tend to obstruct private industry in
its efforts to take up the slack.
F. e. r. A. Study Due.
The first two days will be taken up
with meetings Of the National Indus
trial Council, composed of representa-
tives Of several hundred State and
local manufacturers associations.
Two Government activities that many
business executives complain of will
be discussed at a luncheon meeting
of this council. They are the activi-
ties of the F. E. r. A. in providing
Government-sponso factories for
the unemployed to manufacture fur
niture. mattresses and other con-
sumers' goods, and the Federal power
program, particularly the T. v. A.
Will tLlc 1uIulc VI tllc ~. II. -. III
mind, the Manufacturers Association
Committee on the Future Relation
ship of Government to Industry" has
prepared report after submitting a
QUESTIONABLE to several thousand
concerns. While the nature of the
report has not been disclosed, some
usually well-informed quarters look
for plea for self-government of in
dustry under Government-supervised
rules of fair play.
Labor problems, particularly those
arising under section IA of the re-
covery act, also will be up for con-
sideration. Former Gov Kolller of
Wisconsin, fresh from the labor con-
troversy at his own plant at Kohler,
Wis, will lead the discussion.