Montana labor news., 1934-02-15
TO CHOOSE ITS REPRESENTATIVE,
DIRECTORS HAVE new DEAL EXPLAINED

credit for the farmer.
Myers discussed the procedure in
loans by Federal Land Banks, by the
Land Bank Commissioner and by
banks for co-operatives. He explained
the functions of the Federal Inter
mediate Credit Banks, Production
Credit Corporations and Associations
and Regional Agricultural Credit Cor
porations, and discussed the present
set-up for providing seed and crop
production loans.
A credit agency that is of a special
interest is the set-up providing for
speedy release of deposits in closed
banks, state and national, on very lib
eral terms.
Secretary of Labor Frances Per-
kins and w. Frank Parsons, director
of the United States Employment
Service, outlined the councils activity
in assisting men back to work.
An entire evening session was given
over to a talk by Harry L. Hopkins,
administrator of Federal Emergency
Relief, and head of CWA.
The Federal Government has been
able, this winter, to prevent real hard
ship, Hopkins declared. Later he an
swered questions by the State Direc-
tors about the CWA and indicated re-
ported abuses were being rapidly
eliminated.
To further complete their picture
of the entire recovery program the
Senator Robert Wagner, chairman of
fortyseight field agents heard from
the National Labor Board; Franklin
S. Pollack, counsel to the Compliance
Division of NRA, and others. Director
of the Budget, Lewis w. Douglas, told
about the tough spot he occupies.
National Director, Frank Walker
discussed policies and gave out in
structions.
The outstanding event of the occa-
sion was the meeting with President
Roosevelt at the White House. Ma
tional Director Walker was by his
side and the President greeted each of
the directors with a handshake and
then in the course of a brief talk gave
them their orders.
President ROOsevelt's Address.
The text of President R~oosevelt's
remarks to the State Directors fol-
lows:
81 am glad you have undertaken this
very great task. We have felt, as
you know, for a long time that it was
necessary to tie in, in some way, the
entire emergency program which in
its many ramifications we have been
undertaking from time to time.
"We feel also that this work of dis
seminating information and prevent
ing the crossing of wires had to be
done through decentralization, and
that is why you are here. You are
the great decentralizers for the Fed
eral Government and, in a sense, also,
you are the co-ordinators between the
Federal Government, the State, and
the local governments. That being so,
| think probably that the future sue
cess of this program is more in your
hands than in the hands of any other
group.
Frank Walker as national director
has explained to you the various re-
sponsibilities you have. If you don't
mind, | want to give you a few per-
sonal observations, based on certain
apprehension years in Albany,
war work here during the Wilson adj
ministration and a certain amount Of
experience in the last few months.
They are:
Zone of the most difficult tasks
that | know anything about is to get
around and avoid the results Of GER
tain perfectly normal and natural hu-
man impulses-impulses based on
selfishness and which take certain
forms well known to most Of US either
the purely personal form of trying to
get special authority or special credit
for individual applause or aggrandize-
ment.
AilOtnSI tuinB VIC Iuh lhtO 10 bhS
idea, thought on the part of some peo-
pie, of trying to make political cap
ital out of relief work, out of the
building up of what is in many ways
a new theory of the relationship not
only Of Government to citizen, but
also the relationship between employ
er and employee-the problem of TAX
ing care of human needs.
where we have fallen down In
these past months | would say in
about 60 per cent of the cases, the
falling down has been caused quite
frankly by individuals who try to get
either personal or political credit out
of something that ought not to have
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