Evening star., 1937-12-29
BUSINESS CRITICS
EXCOR|ATED ANEW
IN JACKSON TALK
New Deal Won't Change
Plans, Assistant Attorney
General Indicates.
FOES TACTICS CALLED
'ARISTOCRATIC ANARCHY
Capital Being Held Idle to 'Whack
Concessions Out of Government
Official Believes.
BACKGROUND

OAI AIhIhOCND-
With appearance OF sharp bust
ness decline starting late last sum-
mer, agitation increased for chanoe
in Government attitude touard
business. Conversations about tar
reform and meetings of utility
leaders at White House led to be-
lief administration uas chdroino
attitude. More recently, houeuer,
indications have been that there
1ctl be te1C actual concessions made
to business.
New Deal spokesman continued
their scorching counter-attack on
business critics of the administration
today as Assistant Attorney General
Robert H. Jackson told the American
Political Science Association in Phila-
delphia that these same "Bourbons of
1929" have been saved from ruin and
restored to arrogance" by the Roose-
yelt policies.
Continuing his active speaking pro-
gram Of the last few weeks, the YOUTH
ful Mr.. jackson plainly implied today
that the administration considers
current business pleas for Govern
ment tolerance as selfish and insincere,
and that there will be no back-track-
ing in coming months from the New
Deal theories of economic reform.
Reaching back to Goethe for
phrase of excoriation, the Justice De-
partment trust buster" accused big
business of ''aristocratic anarchy" in
its present efforts Ito liquidate the
New Deal and to throw of all govern
mental interference with their incor-
porated initiative" Such efforts. he
continued. constitute a strike of capi-
tal-"a strike to coerce political
action
Capital Strike Held Purposeful.
Charging that this strike of capital
in the wake of the recession is being
used "as a cudgel to whack conces-
sions out of government" Mr.. Jack
son warned his listeners and the con-
trollers of capital that "the things
they strike against are the things that
won the increasing majorities in 1882,
1884 and 1886"
DO these big business men think
they can strike down a whole program
that so held the hopes of men with
out arouslng bitter resentment" he
asked. The wrath of the people has
been rising as they have seen Uncle
Sam told to stick up his hands and
deliver over his utilities program. his
monopoly program. his social security
program and his tax program to one
or another interested group"
Admitting the experimental nature
and the possible imperfections of
much of the New Deal efforts, the
speaker recalled that these methods
have been challenged only by con-
centrated wealth and its spokesmen."
Matthew Vol. vice president of
the American Federation OF Labor,
declared today in a speech to the
association that labor was "un-
alterably opposed to Federal control
OF labor relations and that it was
inevitable" that the Wagner Act
would have to be amended to clarity
the rights of both labor and the
National Labor Relations Board
Mr.. Woll asserted the function of
government was to serve in the role
OF umpire and to help make the rules
OF the game, but never to become a
player. He went on:
1T is the conviction of an ever
increasing number of the leaders of
the American trade union movement
that the Government has ventured
too far into the extension of its
function into the whole area Of our
industrial life. 1t has certainly gone
great way in its attempt to control
and direct the activities and function
of trade unions"
The real threat of Socialism, Mr..
Jackson continued in his speech,
comes through a concentration of
wealth.
This private socialism, this private
reorganization of industry. finance and
(See RIJSINESS PAGE A.3I