Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1935-12-26
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BUSINESS FIGHTING
WHAT 1T HOPES FOR
PROHIBITTONISTS ACTIVE
CENSUS OF BUSINESS
BORAH BLAMES MONOPOLIES
HITS HOOVER ROOSEVELT
PEEK OPENS HIS FIGHT
THE FEDERAL PAYROLL
DISTRIBUTING THE DOLE

The conflict between the admins
tration and business has entered a Pc
riod of real hostility. 1t is very plain
that those referred to by Secretary
Ickes as the lords of industry and
FINANCE" are in no mood to cooperate
with the government unless and until
they succeed in getting what they
want. Along this line it might be well
to run owe some of the detectives ap-
parently set by business in its clash
with the administration
One of the things that business con-
tinually insists upon is a balanced
budget which seems to mean the end
of work relief and the return Of the
problem to states and localities. The
employers of the country would also
do away with crop control and abol-
ish processing taxes which they asso-
ciate with higher prices for foods.
Business does not want any extension
of federal interests in the relationship
with employees nor does it want any
regulation by the government under
NRA, or otherwise, of hours or any
thing else. Business is also chatting
against the ban set up by the securi-
ties and exchange commission and
generally opposes practically all reg
ulation.
There is much talk of a return to
the gold standard. Moreover, business
as a class seems to be against federal
unemployment insurance laws, a ma
tional system of old age insurance and
any kind of pensions for employees un-
less operated by business itself. The
attitude of some manufacturers to re-
ciprocal trade agreements, designed to
lower tariffs and stimulate competi-
ton, is again in conflict with the very
patent trend of the administration.
This attitude of business is seen
very clearly in the deliberations of the
American Bankers association, the ac-
tivities of the Chamber of Commerce
of the United States and the National
Association of Manufacturers. It is
apparent in the attacks being made
upon many administration policies by
the Liberty League and the National
Economy league. The attack is also
being aided by inumerable trade as
sociations and business groups whose
combined power and influence is be-
ing cast against the president with the
avowed purpose of defeating him for
reelection, gaining control of the
house of representatives and liquidat-
ing the New Deal as quickly as pos
sible.
Answering the industrial coalition
is William Green, president of the
American Federation of Labor, who
declares that the position taken by
industry will drive organized labor
and its friends, as well as all liberal
forces in tire country to the support OF
Roosevelt administration. Mr..
Green insists that the business war
carries out the proposal recently made
by a prominent leader that business
gang up" on the New Deal. He de-
nounce the platform of the industrial
leaders as rea~ctionary, contributing
no ideas towards solving the econom
ic ills of the nation and, says Mr..
Green, does not differ from the plat
form of the same parties just before
the crash in 1929. The labor leader