Evening star., 1934-06-09
CODES TO RETAIN
PRICE PROVISIONS
UNTIL AMENDED
Johnson Says Destructive
and WiI|fuI Cuts to
Be Curbed.
Mr.. A. CHIEF EXPLAINS
AS PROTESTS POUR IN
Darrow Board Submits Second
Report-Hails New Policy
as Support.
By the Associated Press.

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BY the Associated Press.
Price control provisions now in N.
r. A. codes are to stay there until
specific changes are negotiated.
Hugh S. johnson, the recovery ad-
ministrator, made that plain last
night following a deluge of protests
against the new policy aimed at elm
mating certain phases of price-flxing.
johnson said the new policy was
not going to tear up lot OF existing
codes or expose them to reckless price
slashing
Though not overturning the original
announcement that negotiations will
be started to bring all codes into line
eventually with the new policy, the
administrator, In an address by radio
to the International Ladies Garment
Workers in Chicago, stressed that the
new policy was definitely opposed to
''willfully destructive price cutting"
It provided for its prevention. he said.
Darrow Board Reports.
Meanwhile, the Darrow Recovery
Review Board had sent its second
report criticizing the N. R. A. to
President Roosevelt.
The report was signed by four OF
the five members, failing of unanimity
as william o. Thompson, Chicago
lawyer and former Darrow partner,
declined to concur.
Thompson's disagreement. it was
said authoritatively, was founded on
grounds entirely different from the
refusal of John F. Sinclair, who re-
signed, to sign the first report. Sim
clair baked at the first because he be-
lieved it unfair. To Thompson. the
second report did not go far enough IN
recommending changes.
Earlier yesterday the board, in the
words Of one member, had issued
statement which was "a hoot OF jubila-
ton" over N. R. AS conversion as
evidenced by the anti-price-fixing pol
icy, as announced the day before.
Sees Error Acknowledged.
The statement characterized the
new N. R. A. price policy "as a public
acknowledgment of the truth Of the
criticisms set forth on May in the
report" of the board to the President.
I'VE shall not need to point out"
the board said. that the statements
of the report now admitted to be true
were on May n denounced as untrue.
1T Is enough for us to know that
the monopolistic practices which we
revealed and protested are now to be
curbed or abolished, the small enter
prises are no longer left helpless and
hopeless, prey to puffed and reckless
capital, that the bane of price fixing
is to be attacked that reform is to go
it's gracious way throughout the house
hold of recovery
Then later, in order to stay con-
fusion and alarm in coded industries
over adoption of definite anti-price-
fixing policy, administration officials
hastened to inform all that existing
code regulations would stand for the
present.
Officials had been flooded with tele-
grams and telephone calls from code
authorities, many asking for quick
rulings and saying emergency condi-
tions existed in their industries.
Regardless of the temporary truce
In price control terms, divisional ad-
ministrators are under orders to seek
through agreements with code au-
thorities of approved codes to amend
them to conform with these policies,
and. wherever resistance is encount-
cred. the subject shall be taken up
with the administrator
In his radio address johnson called
the new social program of the Repub-
lican National Committee "a kippered
herring in a dark can"
"A kippered herring is one that
smells and hasn't got any-well-
insides," he added.
Asks Sane Unionism,
His address in general was a plea
for sane unionism and strong COM
mendation of the Garment Workers
organization, which unlike many old
line unions also in the American Fed
grafton of Labor does not spread over
several industries but takes in all
workers of a single trade. He criti-
cized irresponsible unionists who make
large demands without regard to the
practical interests of their followers.
OF the Republicans he said:
They got out what they call a
social program. They are going to
produce all the new.deal results-but
not with new-deal methods. They
say those methods interfere with the
rights of property.
They want to produce these re-
suits in the good old way-just the
way they produced them in all the
years after the war tyou know how
that was)-and, so far as the great
mass of farmers and working people
In this country are concerned-just
the way they always produced them,
which is the way a mother tiger pro-
duces humming birds.
They say they don't like Dictator
ships. The fact is, that under their
system, We had a dictatorship in this
country almost all the time since the
Civil War and up to Franklin Roose-
velt-only it was a concealed dicta-
torship and all it aimed at was skim
ming the cream off of American
prosperity for a bunch of Brahmins
In the pious hope that something
would trickle down through fat An
gers to the mass of people below"