Evening star., 1934-09-06
AID PROBLEM V|ES
FOR STAGE |NFALL
Unsatisfactory Employment
Figures Spur Public
Interest.
BY BYRON PRICE
(chief of Bureau. The Associated Pre-

(Chief Of Bureau. The Associated Press.
Washington).
The relief problem again Is threat
ening to nose out all others in the
scramble for attention at Washington.
Industrially, September has cast no
convincing shadow before 1t. Cold
figures do not promise, thus far, the
really big employment upturn hoped
for by the administration.
Some officials think relief expendi-
lures during the coming Winter may
reach proportions entirely unforeseen
year ago.
Budget officers grow serious when
they view the prospect. There is more
and more talk that President Roose-
welt may have to 60 even deeper into
the red than he had planned.
C. w. A. Revival Stunned.
As to relief methods, the admins
tration merely is feeling its way, and
probably will continue to do so for
some weeks to come. A revival of
C. w. A. will be avoided, If possible,
although something very similar may
be substituted.
Political implications adhere in
evitably to almost every act and policy
in Washington, and the latest N. r.
A.-Johnson episode is no exception.
The truth Is Gen. johnson wanted
to quit, and almost every one con-
cerned felt he probably had completed
the organization job for which he en-
tered the Government service.
johnson and Politics.
It was one thing, however, for him
to slip out naturally, and quite an
other, politically, for him to leave In
huff or under fire from within the
administration.
This is campaign year, and Dem
ocratic political chiefs knew an open
break between Johnson and the
White House would be widely inter
preted as reputation Of N. r. A.
itself.
Johnson, on his side, is reported
half-willing to become q senatorial
candidate in Oklahoma In 1895, op-
posing Senator Gore for denomination.
He has no desire to make that race
handicapped by q White House cold
shoulder.
Perhaps these things had a greater
influence than was generally realized
in defeating the effort to eject the
general forcibly-a development which
completely changed the whole picture
overnight.
Textile Strike Confusion.
So much confusion and secrecy sur
rounded preparations for the textile
strike that Government conciliators
were compelled to do a lot of shooting
in the dark.
Some of the union demands, such
as abolition of sweatshops and union
recognition, were so elastic in mean
ing that 1t was hard to get at the
real cause Of the dispute.
The Investigators found the trouble
centered almost entirely in the South,
where neither employers nor employees
are familiar with the new unionized
iset-up inaugurated under N. r. A.
Underneath, the Southern mill own
ers were accused of all sorts of "chisel-
ing" including open discrimination
against union men. The union lead
ers, in turn, were accused of mex
perience and hot-headedness.
Northern Mill Situation.
There was feeling on the part of
some New England and other North
ern owners and workers as well that
such situation would not have arisen
in the long -unionized North, and that
if it did. it speedily could have been
adjusted.
The Northerners on both sides
agreed to go along, however, even If
many of them did not fully under
stand. That made it all the harder
for the Government to get an agree
ment.