Evening star., 1934-06-16
JOHNSON ASSA|LS
DARROW'S BOARD
AS COMMUN|ST|C
N. R. A. Head Also Accuses
Portion of Press of
FaISifying News.
"PARTISAN POLITICIANsv
HIT AS RECOVERY FOES
Reply Is Made to Critics of Unit
in Anniversary Address
at Charleston.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
CHARLESTON, w. Va. June ls-
Hugh S. Johnson today assailed the
Clarence Darrow Review Board as
Communistic in purpose. accused part
oi the press of falsifying N. R. A.
news and attacked partisan politi-
clans aligned against the recovery
unit
HIS reply 10 critics featured this
States holiday celebration of N r
A. S hrSt birthday anniversary. 1t was
broadcast over Nation wide hook-up.
Political Opposition Hit.
Declaring much OF the press is in
the hands OF political opposition anx-
louS to regain office" and that to get
a square deal" from these papers for
N X A. Is impossible. he said:
i can understand the Communistic
purpose OF the Darrow board as an
openly avowed assault on our whole
system IN favor of the semi-barbaric
atrocities of half-civilized Russia but
the betrayal Of a great public trust
oy newspaper to accomplish a par
tIsan end in utter disregard of the
present and future security of the
wage and salary-earning element Of
our population is quite another mat
ter"
And again l ask" he continued
what responsibility do they assume
IN rlsking and inviting the return of
chlld labCE and in deliberately inyok-
ing new epidemic Of price and wage
cutting and the certain sinking into a
new degradation of the living stand
ARDS o! American working people of all
classes?
Just God, is there no price too high
Tor these people to pay for political
advancement? Is there no state of
human misery that is worthy of their
sympathetic, unSelnsh and honest
support"
ASsails Partisans.
ASsailing partisan politicians" who
art enemies OF N. R. A., he said:
l know men who have opposed N.
r. A. and who are actuated largely
by an avowed desire to maintain a de-
pressed condition among workers in
their own constituency. some
times wonder il they never shiver at
the record they are writing in the
great doomSdsy book
Il know what is going on under
N K. A" he said. -" = l know it
has raised employment 81 per cent
and Pc. rolls " per cent. No power
OF attack-no diSingenious news
story-no collateral assault can ever
take that satisfaction away from us.
Attacks DarrOw Board.
OF the Darrow board. johnson
said
1t has investigated not one single
code. II has refused to consider any
data on any code. II has suppressed
testimony from any side but one 1t
IS guilty of deliberately false and un-
supported statements. It's findings
and recommendations are not worth
the paper Cn which they are written"
Johnson said that year ago the
law insisted 'on what Mr. Darrow
calls savage. Wolflsh. competition.
1T Is precisely this savage, wolfsh
competition which has blighted this
country for our whole population for
more Than four Years" he said. .'and
there Is only che method of escape
from It now or in The future.
That method is 20 substitute for
it the basic principles of N. r. A
codes OF fair competition under Blue
Eagle agree mentS throughout all IN
dustry-to maintain wages and work
ing hours SO evenly that none has
reason 0r occasion to impair them
industrial government under
Federal supervision.
Declared Miracle.
This miracle has actually hap
pened under Franklin Roosevelt If
the II months ended today"
In his attack On a segment Ct
the press" he said
Il nave seen instructions to re-
porters to send III no news favor
able to n. R A. Recently il
several instances disturbing news
stories have been published 5y them
which have not one ounce Of factual
foundation-pure fabrications. We
can't even get the truth
johnson spoke on d program which
included Gov. H. c. kump. Senator
Nicely and Donald Richberg, N R As
chief counsel. Richberg said "thc
chatter of ignorant people Who think
that We cannot control the operation
OF natural laws is the greatest nom
sense which atf1icts our generation.
Declaring many businessmen oues-
toned the collective bargaining pro
visions of N. r. A. especially with
serious strikes threatened. he said:
"Self-government OF industry Woulo
be a miSnomer and a sham unles
there were a recognized, unconteste
opportunity for the workers 10 or
ganize themselves and to bargain G
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