The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-01-10
NEW DEAL OPENS MONOPOLY FIGHT
Battle Without Quarter Is Expected - President
 Leads Own Forces
By LYLE c. WILSON United Press Staff COrrespOndent)


 Washington, Jan. 10-(UP)-Bat- tie without quarter is underway to- day on the New Deal-big business front for some undisclosed degree of decentralization of control over industry and finance.
 President Roosevelt assumed per- sonal direction of the effort An his Jackson day address in which he said small minority-a mere hand full of the total of businessmen, bankers and industrialists - would fight to the last ditch to retain their dominant positions.
 Weekend speeches of the presi- dent and his aides at Jackson day dinners went far to outline general administration objectives as con- gress ended first futile week of the regular session.
 Read Some Out of Party
 MT. Roosevelt's language appeared almost to read out of the party those elements in public and private life opposing party progress" He said it was right and necessary for the party to slough off" class conscious ness and sectionalism and observers speculated whether he was hitting at the southern Democratic blocs which have junked his wage and hours bill in the house and are fili- clustering the anti-lynching bill.
 All legislation in the senate is blocked by filibuSter against the anti-lynching bill and there are threats, although they are not taken seriously, that the southerners will nullify this entire session if neces- sary to prevent enactment of the legislation.
 Break in the South
 MT. Roosevelt found comfort, how ever in a break in southern oppo- sition to his wage and hours pro- posal. Members of the southeast governors conference meeting here endorsed wage-hours legislation ill principle and an Alabama congress sional district elected Rep. Lister Hill, Democrat, to the senate al- though he supported wage and hours legislation and was opposed by candidate who denounced it.
 The presidents Jackson day in- siStence that he was warning not upon all business but only upon a .recalcitrant minority and statements of his aides that bignesS in itself was not under New Deal attack aroused speculation as to the iden- tity of individuals or corporations from whom the administration ex- poets a showdown fight. MT. Roose- welt uniformly has avoided names in discussing New Deal objections to big business practices.
 Others Named Names
 During the Christmas week bar rage of criticism, Secretary of h. terior Harold L. Ickes and Assistant Attorney General Robert H. Jackson named names in denouncing monop- olistic practices and other business conditions to which they took ex- ception.
 Jackson named Alfred P. Sloan and William s. Knudsen of General Motors in citing high executive sal- aries in contrast with what he re- garded as proportionately low re- turns to labor
 But Knudsen and MT. Roosevelt are known to be on fairly friendly terms. The motor executive was a White House visitor last week. IckeS during Christmas week counselled business to purge itself of tits Fords, it's Grdlers and its Rands," mean ing, evidently, Henry Ford, Tom Girdler of Republic Steel and James H. Rand, of Remington-Rand. Ickes carried the naming process further by what appeared to be an indict- ment of the nations wealthiest and most powerful families as obstacles to economic progress.
 Jackson Day Effort
 Whoever MT. Roosevelt may have in mind as his opponents in the