Evening star., 1936-12-10
TRADE UNIT HITS
HIGH COURT CURB
Council for Industrial Prog
ress Opens Session.
800 Present.


ing through John @. Paine, chairman
of the management group of the coun-
ell, today placed themselves on record
as opposed to ANY attempt to regu-
late the powers of the (Supreme)
Court or to regulate its viewpoint"
Paines pronouncement was con-
tanned in his opening address before
the council session as it began two
day meeting in the Federal auditorium.
About 800 leaders Of labor and in
dustry were present as Maj. George
l.. Berry, Federal COORDINATION for In
dustrial cooperation, called the meet
ing to order and the invocation was
delivered by Right Rev. James E. Free
man. Episcopal Bishop of Washington.
As the springboard for its delibera-
lions, the council received a message
from President Roosevelt voicing con-
fldence that from its delibera tions
"will come constructive thought which
will hold and stabilize the gains we
have already made, while at the same
time creating additional employment
opportunities and generally improving
industrial conditions"
Roosevelt's Message.
IT trust" the President said, "that
the forthcoming deliberations between
representatives of industry and labor
will, by advancing the best interests
OF each, promote the stability of our
whole national economy"
oil
Of good will from Assistant Secretary
OF Labor Edward F. McGrady and
Matthew Woll. vice president of the
American Federation of Labor.
Addressing himself entirely to the
antitrust laws, Assistant Attorney
General John Dickinson told the
council that either the machinery
for enforcement Of the antitrust laws
must be expanded, or some other and
different machinery for accomplish
1nent of the purposes of those laws
must be devised.
Green viii Speak.
William Green. president Of the
American Federation Of Labor, was to
address the conference this afternoon.
Paine's analysis of problems fac.
ing the Nation and the council re-
solved itself into three points, as
follows:
First is the discontinuance of the
Nation, and by this I do not mean of
the administration, spending not only
It's income but its capital. We must
pass on to our children a Nation as
valuable from the standpoint of nat
ural wealth as that which We received
from our forefathers.
Second: We must increase the
number of earners within the country
and make their earnings sufficient to
enable them to enjoy what the country
has to offer: and,
Third, We must enlarge the scope
of opportunity for individual initiative,
and we must do all of this within the
scope Of capitalistic economics. For If
there is one thing above everything
else that the last election has sue
ceeded in doing it is to have over
whelmingly underwritten capitalism as
the dominant theory of the United
States. The voters of this country had
an opportunity to vote for socialism:
the voters of this country had an op-
portunity to vote for communism, but
they have repudiated these theories
and ideas think with sound Judgment.
10 that today capitalism as an eco
nomic basis for life in the United
States is more deeply intrenched than
ever before in our recent history"
Beliefs of Council.
Reviewing then the beliefs of the
council as expressed in the committee
reports of last March, Paine concluded: !:
IT believe that the true solution will
come only through such an instru-
mentality as the National Council for
Industrial Progress, for without any
axes to grind, with no interest in po-
litical Office, with no pressure groups
TO which it must give consideration,
with no necessity for interesting the
votes back home, it can sit down under
its present makeup and calmly con-
slider the problems, and it can say with
q finiteness that cannot otherwise be
achieved wherein Government can
help, should help and must help in
the solution of these problems, and
wherein Government cannot help and
should keep out"