The Washington times., 1938-01-05

OF the cooperative SplIlC INA
OPPRESSION in 1888, authoritative
: sources said today.
At the end of that period, the
President will send a special mes
sage to Congress providing for re,
vision of the antitrust laws. Lib
eralization or stringency of the
presidential proposals will depend
entirely upon the nature Of the
response he gets from industry
during the next fortnight.
NRA PRINCIPLE OF UNITY
A further tentative gesture to.
ward business was made by Mr.
Roosevelt at his press conference
late yesterday when he said 1t
should again be made legal for
manufacturers and Government
representative to sit around q
conference table and make more
intelligent estimates Of the coun-
try's purchasing power and the in
ventories of particular articles fol
the immediate future.
Industry operated thus under the
defunct NRA codes, but the Pres
ident warned reporters not to
write stories he was going to ask
for immediate revival of the Blue
Eagles principles. Mr.. Roosevelt
did feel, however, that the study
OF probable demand and purchas
ing power should be legalized tc
overcome fears that have beer
current since the Supreme Court
knocked out NRA. The President
added that price-fixing would be
barred, no effort would be made
to divide units Of demand ano
the competitive system retained.
DRAFTS DINNER SPEECH
Meanwhile, the Chief Executive
was drafting the speech he viii
deliver Saturday night at the Jack
son Day dinner. 1t was under
stood, he planned to elaborate OF
his views regarding relations O
business and government, as ex
pressed in the annual message
with emphasis on Just whom h
regards as "malefactors of grea
wealth. He was expected to cal
attention to certain practices cul
rent among the relative handful
of corporations that control IS pc
cent of the country's production
After this speech is delivered
and it will be broadcast nationall!
the President once again will 81
back with the White House latch
string open to business and a BIZ
welcome mat in front of thl
door, his intimates say. He i
hopeful that industry will put it
shoulder to the wheel as it die
in 1888.
LOOKS AT LABOR, TOO
Mr.. Roosevelt is looking askanct
not only at the employer but al
organized labor as well, as he in
dicated in his message. At hi!
presT conference the President
condemned the recurrence Of
! jurisdictional strikes as a result O.
the struggle between the AFL anc
the CIO for power. He said /.
labor could not pu+ its own house
in order-and it would be given al
opportunity-that legislation de
signed to put an end to jurisdiC
tional paralysis of industry woulc
be in order.
Specifically, the President citec
the strikes which tied up the lum
Der industry in Oregon and mad
themselves felt in eastern con
Struction centers. Two election
were held under Government sup
ervision, with the CIO winning
each time, but the carpenter
- called out the teamsters ant
! passed word to their union breth
t ren in the East not to use Oregon
cut lumber.
RAILROADS LASHED
The President also paid his IT
spectS to the railroads for wha
he called a highly unintelligen
method of business. He referre
J to the action of the carriers i
:. placing a whole years order fC
rails last spring for delivery las
summer. Steel mills worked on
seven-day basis turning the orde
out, but Mr.. Roosevelt pointe
sr out steel had now slumped trol
{ 80 to % per cent production
I'd Railroads, with no orders to plac
% for a nine-month period, were