Evening star., 1935-12-29
CHAMBER FIGHTS
N. R. A. REMNANTS
Carry-0ver Bills Opposed as
/. Congress Prepares for
Friday Opening.
Hy the Associated Press.

legislators gathering for the session
of Congress opening Friday were mott
fed by an organized business spokes-
man in emphatic terms yesterday that
it would continue to oppose all meas
ures having an N. r. A. flavor.
This word came as formal state
nlent from the Chamber Of Commerce
OF the United States. 1t served notice
also that business leaders would fight
any cash bonus bill and warned
against heavy Federal expenditures
and any permanent neutrality measure
(which might operate to take us
toward war rather than away from it. I"
The chamber hit at three carry
over" bills introduced after the death
OF N. r. A.
Wants Voluntary Pacts.
Listing the Walsh bill, which re-
utired that all business enterprises
having Government contracts abide by
specified hours and wages; the O'Ma-
honey measure providing Federal IL
ceuses for all interstate industries, and
the Black 30-hour week proposal, 1t
added:
1.-THE chamber is opposed TO all these
proposals as it is to all efforts to re-
enact mandatory provisions of the
defunct N. r. A.
"It fayors trade practice agreements
voluntarily entered into and contends
that this procedure will permit a pro-
gram of labor relations fair alike to
worker and employer without resort
to the infiexible fats of legislative
enactments administered by crack
down Government agents. which have
previously proved obnoxious alike to
labor and employer"
Breathing Spells Length Asked.
After enumerating other bills 1t will
favor and some it will oppose, the
chamber said.
These are prominent among the
questions Immediately to the fore as
Congress assemblies. Meanwhile the
country asks, Is the breathing spell
over?'"
AS the chamber issued its first pre-
session statement Democratic leaders
busted themselves with preliminary
conferences regarding procedure and
legislative priority They said it had
not been decided definitely whether
President Roosevelt would deliver his
opening message Friday or the fol-
lowing Monday. A final decision will
await a conference with Senator Rob-
inson, Senate floor leader, expected
here this week.
The President kept to the White
House proper yesterday, making no
engagements for conferences in the
executive office.
Chairman Nye of the Senate Num-
tions Committee meanwhile kept the
new neutrality legislation discussion
going with a forecast that agitation
would develop in some quarters for
including oil In the fiat arms and n1u.
nitions embargo.
Other Political Moves.
Other congressional developments
included:
An expression of fear by Senator
Adams, Democrat, Colorado, that a
new unemployed class may be cre-
ated through providing Federal work.
relief jobs only for 3,5oo,o0o on re-
lief rolls. What Is to become o1
the 100000 jobless who were not
on relief" he asked.
An announcement that new ship
subsidy bill will be introduced early
in the session in an effort to COM
pose existing differences. The House
already has such a measure, but the
Senate has never been able to agree
on a Commerce Committee revision.
An appointment by the congress
sional silver bloc to call on Secre-
tary Morgenthau this week with the
finance minister Of Mexico, Eduardo
Suarez, to discuss problems arising
from administration of the silver pur-
chase act.
Slower Spending Forecast.
The Chamber of Commerce de-
clared Government spending the
"chief interest and concern Of busi-
ness" and said that, as far as the
House Appropriations Committee is
concerned, "the signs point toward a
material pairing down Of ordinary ex.
penditures and a resistance to large,
extraordinary or emergency spending" !"
The chamber said it would con-
tinue to favor pending measures max
ing it a penal offense to advocate
the overthrow of the Government by
force and violence, and requiring all
Government agencies in competition
with private business to adopt sys-
TEN Of cost-accounting and cost-re-
porting which would reveal the real
cost Of such Government operations
by taking cognizance OF all the real
cost factors which enter into any
manufacturing or merchandising en-