Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-05-24
LEADERS ACCEPT
Mr.. A, EXTENSION
FOR III MONTHS
Senate and House Chiefs
Work Out Compromise
With Roosevelt.
GREEN DEMANDS FULL
TWO YEARS FOR UNIT
4. F. of T. Head, in Predicting
Strikes and Pay Cuts, Denies
Bulldozing Congress.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
President Roosevelt and House and
Senate leaders agreed tentatively to-
day on a 2lla-month extension of
N. r. A. and giving the recovery
agency jurisdiction over businesses
substantially affecting" interstate
commerce.
Price-fixing would be barred.
They reached that understanding at
q White House conference, even as
William Green, president of the Amer
lean Federation of Labor, was insist
ing before the House Ways and Means
Committee upon a two-year extension
and describing as "shortsighted, reac-
tionary and anti-social" those who OPP
posed that
result If N. r. A. were not continued
at least two years.
johnson to Testify.
Ready to testify later in the day
along the same lines was Gen. Hugh
S. Johnson, first boss of the Blue
Eagle.
The White House conferees were
Senators Robinson of Arkansas, Demo-
cratic leader; Harrison of Mississippi,
chairman of the Finance Committee;
Speaker Byrns and Representative
Doughton, Democrat, of North Caro-
lima, chairman of the House Ways
and Means Committee.
1t was reported by a conferee who
defined to let his name be used that
If necessary everything but a ala
month extension would be discarded
in order to get the legislation through
by June Is, the day the recovery act
expires. 1t could be followed, he ex-
planned by subsequent legislation en-
bodying the other things which the
President deemed necessary.
After warning of strikes, Green
added he wanted no one to think that
organized labor was "blufing."
Denies General Strike.
Answering question after question
fired at him by the Is committeeman
seated at a semi-circular table, he i'm
piled, however, that he did not have
general strike" in mind.
I'VE explained our position on that
question rather clearly at the time of
the San Francisco strike" he elabo-
rated.
At that time the A. F. of L. turned
down proposals to call a general
strike"
Green insisted he had no intention
of trying to threaten" or "intimidate"
Congress into doing what labor wanted.
1--WE are just here to reason with
you" he said. THE chief objective of
the American Federation of Labor is
to seek industrial peace"
Paints Dire Picture.
Condemning N. r. A. opponents as
ort-sighted, reactionary and anti
social" Green said if the recovery
organization should be killed:
Unemployment will increase by
leaps and bounds; wages will sink:
sweatshops will spring up again all
over the country: children will again
go to work in factories and mills in
great numbers and under shameful
conditions.
Ruthless, bitter competition will
reappear, many of its effects falling
on the worker who is helpless to pro-
tect himself"
Reading from prepared statement,
the labor chief insisted the nine and
one-half months extension voted by
the Senate "is in reality a destruc-
ton of the N. R. A., more complete
and more dangerous than would be
q refusal to continue it in any form"
1t would, he contended be better to
end the N. r. A. than ito continue 1t
in form which is doomed to failure,
which Is certain to bring diScredit not
only upon itself, but upon the entire
administration, which makes a farce
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