Evening star., 1934-11-18
BUS|NESS|SSEEN
CHAMP|NG BIT IN
RECOVERY MARCH
"Rarin' to Co." Says Harri-
man, Predicting End of
Unemployment.
LABOR is SKEPTICAL
OF NEW ALIGNMENT
C. of C. Welcomes Cooperation,
but Green Cites Antagonism
to Section IA.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Business and the administration
were definitely united today in
mighty joint effort to produce re-
covery, while labor looked on skep-
tically and wondered.
After consulting Donald Richberg,
the Roosevelt recovery co-ordinator
and James A. Moffett, head of the
Housing Administration, Henry I.
Hartman, president of the Chamber
of Commerce of the United States
asserted that for the first time since
the depression began business is really
ready to go ahead"
And business is rarin' to CO." he
added.
Complete About-face Seen.
Meanwhile, at the headquarters of
the American Federation of Labor
William Green, president of that Or
ganization, pondered the meaning OF
the new alignment; termed it com
plete about-face on the part of big
business" and reserved his opinion
as to what it pointed to.
While chamber officials had said
that labor was welcome to cooperate.
Green asserted that there hasn't
been an opportunity for cooperation
because the Chamber of Commerce
assumes such an antagonistic atti-
tude toward labor. and especially to-
ward section IA"
Meanwhile, it became apparent
that, while the business leaders are
reluctant to exclude labor definitely
from the partnership, they see little
possibility for effective cooperation
jectives to the two groups are in al
most direct opposition.
3O-Hour Week Main Issue.
Foremost among the issues in
volved is labor's ilSistence upon 30
hour week made mandatory by
statute. The Chamber of Commerce
and other business organizations are
ready to fight such legislation to the
end.
The chamber during the day ap-
pointed a special committee to take
charge of its cooperative move.
headed by Silas H. Strawn, consistent
foe of Roosevelt policies, and the
heads of a half dozen firms ranging
from agriculture through industry to
banking.
Hartman, exuding confidence that
business was now entering new era
of realism" and leaving behind one
of REIMBURSEMENT, said there was
mo difference Of opinion between
himself and Richberg.
Both of us think that the one all
important thing is to get men to
work and stop calling names"
Moffett Addressed Board.
Moffett, in addition to a private
conference with Hartman. addressed
a meeting of the chambers Board OF
Directors. He strongly urged thai
business take the initiative in getting
the program he is directing int
effective operation as a means of in
creaSing employment and industrial
activity.
If the fullest use is made of the
possibilities of undermining and
building homes within the next year
there should be no reason why al
least one and a half billion dollars
could not be put into each of thess
efforts, with the employment of three
million men, since men at work on
building jobs put others to work sup
plying materials"
At the chambers offices, it was sale
that the appointment of committee,
by similar organizations-the Ma
tional Association of American Man
ufacturers, the National IndustriG.
Conference Board, the Durable Good
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