The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-02-27

a-NNAIN AN4AAANHNN4 8-NA--AA-@AA because Tugwell was not saved is to be turned owe Progress Administration fol
 The decision is important be- cause it indicates an abandon ment oe the Tugwoll policy Of long term planning, in favor of concentration upon immediate ex- penditures. Tugwell pointed out to the President when he first undertook the job of readjusting the farm population of the United states that it would take several years, that he could not produce effects immediately.
 New. however. WPA funds arc running short And the Presl- dent has passed out Che word that only those agencies sh0w- ing actual results shah be fav- cred with funds.
 This win affect other agencies as well, particularly slum clear ance under the Public Works Ad- ministration. Cotton Picker
 New Deal economists, boring over the unemployment problem, have singled out Q modest little factory in Memphis, Tennessee, as the greatest possible trouble spot in the entire country.
 It is the plant where the Rust brothers are putting together their new cotton picking niachin- cry.
 The machine Is supposed to pick 2200 pounds of cotton in ninety minutes. This means that 1t would do the work of 100 men.
 The effect of this upon hard labor in the south, upon the eil- tire system of tenant farming, is something which economists do not like to contemplate.
 Strangest twist of fate is that the machines inventors were themselves humble cotton work. CTS, have always sympathiEed with labor, are now professed socialists.
 Amazed by the thought of what their brain-child might do to labor, they offered Co turn ever marketing control to Che Southern Tenant Farmers Union. Tho Union would have liked Co take control as Q mat. ter Of protection for its work CTS, but lacked the necessary capital.
 However. Che question is still open. The Rust Brothers have indicated they will make the deal any time the Union can swing it.
 But the sore spot is this: No matter who handles the ma. chimes marketing, any successful and widespread use of 1t will create on economic change com. parable to the invention of HI Whitney's cotton gin.
 Forlorn Blue Eagle
 April i will ring down the cur- tain on the New Deals most spectacular tragedy.
 on that day what little TO. mains of the National Industrial Recovery Act expires. The Tesl- nant of 1900 officials, clerks and other employees still on the payroll will receive their last paychecks, and finis will Do writ- ten on the New Deals most sen- sat!onal experiment.
 The President will seek no new extension of the shattered statute. But he may ask for on authorization to continue . small skeleton research organ. ixation to study the. numerous and complex problems which the NRA attempted to handle.
 Such c plan is being strongly urged by Major George Berry, . coordinator for Industrial Co- operation.
 Berry is tho promoter of the Industry.Labor Congress that came to such . stormy and abrupt end within on hour after it con- N vened early In January. Since then he has organized Q Council for Industrial Progress, made up of representatives of management and labor.
 Substitute by '37
 Tho Council Is divided Into seven committees, each studying c separate phase Of industry.la- bor relations. Reports on their findings will Do completed in c few weeks and sent to the Presi- dent for his persua land publica. ton.
 Berry wants the Council con. tinued fer another year. He Do. lieves that by the time She next Congress meets it will have for- inulated . broad and c0mpre. henslve program to substitute for the MIRA. xt is his centen- tlon that unless such . plan is drafted, 1O97 will sec the en- actment Of . mandatory Ilmit- ed work k.weeIs for aIl industry.
 The Council is being financed ct present from NIsA funds. But with tho expiration of the Act on April l, c special authorization will have to Do obtained from Congress or else the Council placed under the Jurisdiction of the Works Progress Administra- tioH.