The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-02-05
PRICE CONTROL
POWERS TAKEN
FROM NRA ACT
Loss Leaders, Destructive
Cost Cutting Barred
in Proposal.

All powers delegated to Gov. Pau
v. McNutt, by proposed amend
ments to the state NRA law, tt
intervene in price-cutting wars ano
fix minimum prices, today were
stricken from the proposed bill by
the House of Representatives.
Rep. j. Napier Dyer Cd, Vim
cennes), original author of the bill
offered a further amendment which
makes the use of loss leaders and
destructive price cutting unlawful.
A Republican effort to compe.
indefinite postponement of the en-
tire measure failed 62-36 following
brief debate, during which Rep
Dyer said the amendment Offered
today met the approval of the Gov
ernor.
Section IL of the bill, included in
a batch of amendments presented
Unexpectedly last Friday, woulc
have given the Governor power tc
intervene in price wars and eStab-
lish minimum prices in areas af-
fected.
Loss Leaders Prohibited
AS now drawn, Section II reads
The use of loss leaders as here
tofore defined in any business
transaction, including those Of a
strictly interstate character, is
hereby prohibited and any form OF
destructive price cutting which
tends to demoralize a trade or in
dustry and threaten existing wage
levels, shall be deemed an unfair
method Of competition and a Vio-
lation of this act"
The Democrats rejected an amend.
ment offered by Rep. Roy j. Har-
rison (R., Attica) to prevent coercion
from any source against employees
from selecting their own agency fol
collective wage bargaining. AT
present the bill prevents coercion by
employers of labor"
The entire Republican member
ship of the House voted against the
amendment and supported the at
tempt to kill the bill by directing
indefinite poStponement.
G. o. p. Attacks Bill
Rep. H. H. Evans 3D., New
castle), Republican caucus leader
repeated the opposition to the bill
which he read into the House jour-
nal yesterday. He declared the en-
tire Federal NRA program has been
declared illegal by the United States
Supreme Court and has been called
unavoidable by Gen. Hugh S. John
son, former NRA Administrator.
Today's action in the House car
ried out the predictions made by
Rep. Dyer in The Indianapolis
Times Saturday that the new Sec
ton II, placed in the bill at the re-
quest of independent dealers" who
appeared before a committee and
gave the impression the section was
approved by Gov. McNutt, would be
wholly changed.
A one-house legislature is sought
in a bill introduced today in the
House by Rep. Joseph E. KLEIN Cd.
Whiting.
50 Members Proposed
The measure sets the membership
of the proposed General Assembly
at so members, to be elected on q
separate ballot and under a non
partisan emblem without politica.
designation.
Nominations are to be made by
petitions filed with the Secretary Of
State between 80 to so days before
election, with petitioners to be one
fourth of the voters who cast bal
lots at the last general election fol
the Office of Secretary of State.
Terms for the general assembly
men, to be voted upon in districts
with the same boundary lines as
the present senatorial districts
would be six years, with the first
election held in November, 1886.
Following election, the assembly
men are to draw lots for terms Of
office in the first assembly, with the
range of term being two, four anc
six years.
Elections are to be held every two
years.