The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-06-07
RESOLUTION UP
TO SENATE FOR
CONCURRENCE
Roosevelt Says Code Multi
fication Brings Return
of Fundamental Laws
LABOR IS OUT FOR
SEVERAL MEASURES

LABOR IS OUT FOR
SEVERAL MEASURES
WASHINGTON, June z. (UP).
President Roosevelt declared that
the notification of all codes by
the United States supreme court
meant q return to fundamental
laws. including the antitrust sta
tute which he is sworn to uphold.
Meanwhile, the house pushed
through the resolution extending
the NRA on temporary basis un-
til April 1, next year.
The resolution kills presidential
poRers 20 enforce epdSa, =
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! Ninety-one words, scrubbed on a
piece of paper in a house COM
mittee room yesterday, will be
the charter that will extend MIRA
until April.
The house was to pass it today
and send it to the senate. Debate
will be limited to two hours but
amendments may be. offered.
1T took the house ways and
means committee three hours to
get those 81 words. Then the
committee voted to report the
resolution to the house. Nineteen
committee members voted aye;
five voted present; nobody voted
no. ''"
This is what the committee was
voting on: -a'@i
Resolved by the senate and !.
house of representatives Of %
United States Of America hc0ls
gress assembled, 70 81 (
"That sestis ~
of sfy The - ;l|ss'
afi III OF enactment Of
thii hid inserting in lieu
thei sApril |, 1885.
section 2. All the provisions
of title one Of such act delegating
power to the president to approve
or prescribe codes of fair. compe-
tition, and providing for the en-
forcement of such codes are here
by repealed"
That stripped from the federal
government all power to impose
and enforce codes. But. it did
leave the way open for business
men and industrialists to draw up
their own codes.
Whether they will choose to do
it is problematical in view Of b
statement issued yesterday by
Attorney General Homer S. Cum
mings.
He said the government prob
ably would have to prosecute any
business man who entered into an
agreement to fix prices. Many
NRA codes contained price fixing
clauses, but those codes now are
allegal because of the supreme
court decision in the Schechter
poultry case.
Thus Cummings finds himself
in the position of having to prose-
cute a business man for some
thing the government was encour-
aging him to do two weeks ago..
Donald Richberg, NRA chair
man, was in the committee room
when Chairman Robert l.. Dough-
ton of the ways and means COM
mittee finished the draft of the
amended Clark resolution. The
Clark resolution passed the sem
ate before the supreme court de-
clared NRA illegal. 1t extended
the agency until April, banned
price fixing and confined NRA to
interstate commerce.
After the house puts through
its amendments tomorrow the res
olution will be sent back to the
senate for concurrence. All this
must be done, and the resolution
must be signed by President
Roosevelt by June9l6 or NRA will
die.
Leaders of organized labor
gathered In Washington today to
revise their strategy in the light
of the, NRA decision. After a
meeting lasting several. hours
President William jGreen.4of the
American Federation lof, labor
and his colleagues issaed atstatee
ment asking enactmsnt. ofimfive
pieces of legislation:' s7jgH Yosl
1. A new act to replace the !;
MIRA, :s''.f ~ Eprs4 =
2. The Wagner labor disputes
bill. X
8. The Black s0-kour week bill.
4. Social security legislation. :!
S. The Guffey coal bill.
President William Green of the
American Federation of Labor
said he expected his executive
council to center its campaign
around the Wagner labor disputes
bill, passed by the senate.
That measure, passed by the
senate and pending in the house,
writes into the statute books la
boris right to collective bargain
ing. Labor lost that right when
the famous section IA of the ma