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textile strike last September, stated
today: we are enthusiastically and
wholeheartedly behind the prin-
ciples of the N.R.A."
Administration leaders as well as
President Roosevelt withheld speci-
fic legislative proposals to carry out
the extension of the N. r. A.
Evidently they wish to get other
anti-labor legislation out of the
way first. In addition, they are
trying to quiet mass protests
against the present N. R. A. set
up, protests which have resulted
not only in unprecedented strike
struggles, but also in forcing de-
mands in the Senate for inyestiga-
ton Of the effects of the blue eagle
measures upon small business and
labor
Senate Investigation"
Maneuvering to accomplish this,
the Senate Finance Committee to-
day reported favorably o resolution
to make such an investigation"
This report, however, would place
the investigation" in the hands
of the Senate Finance Committee
itself-and it is recognizedly one
of the most reactionary groups in
the Senate-instead of in those of
the Senate Commerce Committee,
which contains a few liberals who
might embarrass the Administra-
ton by asking questions.
The Roosevelt message again en-
ployed the very language of the
open shoppers when, carefully
avoiding any reference to the ia
nous Section TIA, it declared:
THE rights of employees freely
to organize for the purposes of col
lective bargaining should be fully
protected"
This is precisely the verbiage
used by the industrialistS who wish
to restrict collective bargaining"
between employers and employee
representatives"
On M0n0pOlles
On the question of monopolistic
control of N. r. A. Codes, the Pres
ident declared that THE fllnda-
mental principles Of the antitrust
laws should be more adequately ap-
Piled However, he said this only
after first insisting upon the "prin-
cipleS" of N, R. A., which speci-
flcally lift antitrust provisions,
ITO abandon Them" Roosevelt
said of the N. R. A. pro-monopoly
provisions, lis unthinkable. It
would spell the return of indus
trial and labor chaos g-
Once more employing the essence
of published pronouncements by
such big-business executive as
General Hugh S. johnson, former
N. R. A. Administrator, the Pres
ident's message included the fol-
lowing passage, strongly reminiscent
of Johnson's recent Saturday Eve
ming Post articles:
I'VE must work out the CO.
ordination of every code with every
other code. We must simplify pro-
cedure. We must continue to OBJ
tain current information as to the
working out of code processes. We
must constantly improve a person
mel which, of necessity, was hastily
assembled we must check and
clarity such provisions in the va
riouS codes as are puzzling to those
operating under them. We must
make more and more definite the
responsibilities of all the parties
concerned"
Conferences with johnson
johnson conferred privately with
Roosevelt during recent weeks. Both
he and the U. S. Chamber of Com
merce have often called for sta
tistics- gathering or current in
formation" machinery which easily
might become an extension of pres
ent industrial espionage outfits and
certainly would provide material for
sunshine statements concealing the
anti-labor effects of the N. R. A.
The trade associations for months
have been calling for "simplifica-
ton" and for measures to place on
unions greater responsibilities" in
Guiding the responsibility for dam
age to property in strikes.
Boosting of the gains made by
industry under the present N.R.A,,
President Roosevelt told Congress
that the MIRA "chalIenoed the