Evening star., 1934-05-17
DARROW REPORT
HIT BY MINORITY
Impartial Agency to Check
Codes Asked by John
+. Sinclair.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, May 17.-An i'm
partial, fact-f1nding agency to check
up each code under the N. r. A. was
advocated yesterday by john F. Sin
clair, whose minority report as men,
Der of the so-called "Darrow Commit
tee"-National Recovery Review Board
IS in the hands of President Roosevelt.
Denying he was reactionary, Sin
clair said that while there were many
cases where the small mans" in
terest was not guarded as carefully as
1t should have been under the N. r. A.,
he would not make thai 5weeping
generalization for industry as whole.
"All Of the Codes" he said, should
be checked up. There is need for a
small, impartial, fact-flnding agency
to check each code. And we should
not eliminate the Sherman antitrust
law unless we are sure the little fellow
is being taken care Of"
Attacks Darrow Methods.
Sinclair not only defended his con-
clusions, but vigorously attacked the
methods Of Clarence Darrow, chair
man of the board. He said he had
never seen the mapority report of
Darrow, and added it was not written
by Darrow, but by Charles Edward
Russell.
Sinclair said he and the four other
members of the board "had no more
to do with selecting the personnel,
laying out the plan, or writing the re-
port than they had to do with starting
the last World War"
He also charged that the board had
no real facts" as the basis of its
report, but had built it on "peewee
information"
While he refused to discuss the
substance of his report until it is
made public by President Roosevelt,
1t is understood to contain a recon-
mendation for review boards in each
industry under the N. r. A.. and for
q board Of appeal appointed by the
President which would be above poll
tics.
A. prepared statement he gave out
cited II points of conflict between
himself and Darrow. Darrow, he said,
had taken the position of a special
pleader, against the position Of care
full research" and had appointed his
personal buddies" to chief places in
the organization. These were Lowell
Mason Of Chicago, Illinois State Sen
ator, as counsel, and Charles Edward
Russell, newspaper man, to write the
report.
Declared Ignorant Of Codes.
He charged that the board men,
berS were ignorant of most of the
codes and that consequently its hear
ings merely scratched the surface"
Sinclair denied any acquaintance
with Gen. Hugh S. Johnson had in
duced him to write a minority re-
port, and said he had met the gen.
eral only half dozen times.
Saying he had tried vainly to get
Darrow to call meeting of the board
to write a report in unison, Sinclair
said he wrote his own and sent 1t to
the President.
my sympathy has always been for
the little man." he said. II am opposed
to big business monopoly in any form
unless it Is under strict Government
control.
What is distressing to me is that
board such as this one has not taken
advantage of its vast opportunity to do
a magnificent job and really show how
the little Independent business man
can maintain himself in this new era.
There is no more important problem in
America today. But unfortunately the
present National Recovery Review
Board is not the one to find it out"
Sinclair said he formerly was on the
research staff Of the Legislative Refer
ence Bureau Of the State of Wisconsin,
chairman of the Finance Committee of
the Farmer Labor party which elected
Senator Shipstead in 1922, and chair
man Of the La Toilette Wheeler Com
mittee Of Minnesota in 1924.