Evening star., 1935-12-05
NEW DEAL POLICY
SCORED IN REPORT
Industry Told of Effort to
Project It Into Ameri-
can Future.
Nv thu Associated Press.

NEW YORK, December 5.-A re-
port decrying what it termed an et-
fort to project the New Deal into the
future of America" was presented to
the Congress of American Industry
today by its Committee on the Rela-
ton of Government to Industry.
Presented for consideration of the
congress by c. L. Bardo, president OF
the National Association of Manu-
facturers, the committees report said
It had to take exception to continua-
ton of the Governments emergency
plan of action and proposed leglsla-
ton.
This legislation, it contended, is IAN
effort to place in our system series
of permanent statutes, projecting the
New Deal into the future of America"
Want Philosophy Abandoned.
The committee report added, we
ioin in the demand made by every
enlightened economic organization Tor
abandonment of the philosophy that
prosperity can be produced through
curtailing production, whether in ag-
rieulture or in industry"
1t. continued, The true abundant
life can be supported only by abun-
dant production of the things that
enrich the lives of all"
Bardos committee observed: I'VE
are driven to the conclusion that the
administration desired cooperation
from industry but did not genuinely
wish to give to industry the same de-
gree of cooperation that it eXacted.
THE administration likewise secured
adoption of many codes in forms en-
tirely unsatisfactory to the industries
involved by threatning to invoke the
licensing provisions of the act or the
provisions for imposed codes"
See Disillusionment.
THE opinion was voiced in the re-
port that the national industrial re-
coverv act was based on "fallacies toe
serious to result in anything but dis
ilmsionment. The greater the degree
of adherents, the greater the dis
ilIusionment."
OF the Supreme Courts decision II
the Schechter case, holding the cooe'
making provisions of N. /. r. A. un'
constitutional, the report said th'
ruling was made mot only because
of the extreme and unwarranted dele
cation of legislative power, but als'
because of the effort through th'
codes to extend centralized Feoera
control to local conditions.
The report described as being ''basee
Col niR
O'Mahonev bill and the textile contro
bill, as we'll as the Walsh Government
contract measure and the BlacK-Con
nerv bills. 1t called for an industrial
united front" against such legislation
The committee recommended the
association should oppose any proposed
Federal legislation to take over genera
control of wages and hours OF laool
and advocated elimination OF the
Federal Labor Board system"
Duty Is to Protect.
Regarding Government competitor
with private industry and what tnt
committee referred to as ''yardsticks,
the report repeated last years asser'
ton of the congress that the Govern
rnents true function is to protect ant
promote the economic activities OF It!
citizens. not to supplant them
1t continued: The Government
should withdraw as soon as possible
from competition with private bust
ness, save in exceptional cases where
a strictly Federal purpose is to bt
achieved, and where the corporate
form provides public advantages the
practice of incorporating Federal
agencies should be abandoned
The committee urged repeal OF the
Guffey coal control act and asked the
administration to make the announced
breathing spell" for business a cease
and desist order"
The National Manufacturers As
sociation lined up in open hostility to
the New Deal. considering a tentative
1886 platform of rugged individual
ism"
Nearly every speaker at this years
meeting of the association has criti-
cized New Deal policies, and others
renewed the assault today, prelim-
mary to adoption of the platform.
Alfred P. Sloan, president of the
General Motors Corp, warned Amer
ican business last night that it
must assume broader responsibilities
or face the alternative of increasing
governmental interference.
Must Assume Leadership.
Industry he said, must assume the
role of enlightened industrial states
manship.
We must prove toward a soundly
based and wisely distributed economic
well-being. This is the theory of
plenty as distinguished from the the
ory Of scarcity which has dominated
otr recent economic thinking and
policies"