Evening star., 1935-04-12
CONSUMERS GOODS
GROUP PBACKSN.R.A.
Sloan Tells Senate Quiz
Manufacturers Favor Two
Year Extension.

BY the Associated Press.
Manufacturers Of consumers goods,
such as food and clothing, today
strongly supported an extension Of
N. r. A. with the warning that Its
abandonment would lead to "finan-
cial chaos"
George A. Sloan, chairman Of the
Consumers Goods Industries Com
mittee and of the cotton textile
code authority, presented the Sen
ate Finance Committee with reso-
luton adopted by the consumer group
urging continuation of N. r. A. "for
q further trial period of two years.
The resolution warned that to
abolish the codes now would check
recovery, destroy confidence and prob
ably create another downward spiral
of bottomless defiation and financial
chaos"
Before Sloan took the stand, John
E. Edgerton, Nashville woolen textile
manufacturer and president of the
Southern States Industrial Council
testified the majority of Southern
business men wanted N. r. A. ex-
tended.
Gives du Points Views.
Sloan said Lamont du Pont, a men,
Der Of his committee, did not approve
the resolution, but had authorized
him to say he would not object to
one more year for winding up N. r. A
However, the chemical manufac-
k,,rer CInon eoiI 1vrncod authority
to impose codes on industries in which
the majority of members did not want
them
McCarran Drafts Substitute.
A substitute for the administration
N. R. A. bill was being drafted mean
while by Senator McCarran, Democrat
Of Nevada, recovery law critic, to per-
nit only voluntary codes.
The measure was expected to prove
a rallying point for many of the con-
gressional oponentS of N. r. A. whit
have contended it was crushing thu
little man and fostering monopoly.
McCarran, one of the authors of thu
resolution under which the curren
Senate inquiry into N. r. A. Is belni
conducted, was the first member o
Congress to attempt to draft substi
tute for the recovery law.
While his measure was still in {
tentative shape, he said it would leav
the whole business on a voluntar.
basis. Industries which wished woult
oe permitted to get together and draf
agreements for certain specified pur
poses The Government regulator.
agency would be set up only for thos
industries which wanted codes.
viii Continue Section IA.
Under the McCarran proposal, ther
would be no distinction between in
trastate and interstate commerce
With the whole arrangement volun
tary, there could be no issue abou
the constitutionality Of regulating
businesses entirely within State lines
McCarran said he would continue
Section Ia, the collective bargain
ing section, though he Gid not con
slider 1t very effective, and woult
attempt to tighten up the enforcement
of the antitrust laws.
"I think we can enforce the anti
trust laws and yet permit voluntar!
association of business for certain
stated purposes" he said. But
think the antitrust laws are mor'
important than N. r. A."
Before completing his final draft
| McCarran will confer with Senator
Nye, Republican, Of North Dakota
who Jointly proposed the Senate
inquiry with him, and with other'
who oppose extending N. r. A. ir
its present form.
Members of the Senate Committee
hoped to complete the inquiry within
another week or SO, but they still had
hundreds of applications to be heard
from small and big business. Ths
wind -up-will come with Hugh 8. john
son, former administrator, and prob
ably other witnesses to answer the
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