The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-25
BILL CREATING
LABOR BOARD TO
PASS CONGRESS
Measure Only One Among
Social Bills Slated for
Adoption.
BY RUTH FINNEY
Times Special Writer

WASHINGTON, May 25.-Con-
gress will create a new labor board
for handling industrial disputes be-
fore it adjourns, but it will allow
other labor measures to die.
This is what Washington reads
between the lines of President
Roosevelt'S announcement that he
plans no message to congress on
social legislation.
Signs that the business barome-
ter may take a nose-dive may have
something to do with White House
silence on unemployment insur-
ance and old-age pensions. The first
measure involves a tax on business,
the second a federal appropriation.
When the trial balloon idea of
having a commission study labor,
unemployment and old-age prob
lens burst yesterday, it left back
ers of these measures decidedly up
in the air.
Roosevelt Changes Mind
First the President had said he
favored them. Then congressional
leaders, coming from White House
conference, had said they would be
held up until comprehensive plan
for migrating them had been
formed Finally came the Presi-
dents complete reputation of this
last idea.
Within a short time word came
from the White House that the
President wanted the labor disputes
bill passed at once. No such word
was forthcoming on unemployment
insurance or old age pensions.
Eight serious strikes are worrying
the administration.
At Toledo and Minneapolis, where
electric auto-lite workers and truck
drivers are on strike, riots have TAX
en- place within the last two days.
Strike Trouble Spreads
Pacific coast longshoremen have
been joined in their strike by New
Orleans and Houston dock workers
Copper workers are striking in Mon
tana, hosiery workers in 1ndianap-
oils, newsboys in Cleveland.
The national labor board, NRA
and the labor department are all
trying to mediate. The new labor
disputes bill is intended TO concen-
trate such activities in one strong,
central agency.
Failure to act on unemployment
insurance before adjournment
means that workers can not count
on this protection for at least three
years more. The pending bill is
designed to promote establishment
of state unemployment insurance
systems rather than to set up a
federal system. Forty-four legisla-
lures meet next year Most of them
do not meet again until 1887
Senator Robert F. Wagner dem,
y. ", author of the insurance bill
Intends to keep on trying to get a
vote, but he is blocked until the
house ways and means committee.
where all tax legislation originates,
acts.
Disagrees With Tugwell
If President Roosevelt intends to
sonce.1trate on business recovery for
The next six months, he is in more
pointed disagreement with his most
famous brain truster, Rexford G.
Tugwell, than at any previous time
n his administration. Mr.. Tugwell,
n speech this week, declared that
here has been IAN oVeremphasis
IN business recovery and pure relief
necessary as both are"
Senator Wagner, legislative par
mt Of the recovery act, sounded the
iame note in discussing NRA
Wednesday in the senate.
1T has succeeded in recovery; it
las fallen far short of reform" he
,aid Its greatest potentialities still
are unexplored and await further
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