The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-11-01

Two factors are behind the uI1- announced shift. One, Emery's age Che is 62). Two, the secret decision by NAM leaders to pre- sent a less die-hard front toward liberal business and social legisla- tion.
 He hasn't been retired com pletely. Nominally he is still gen. eral counsel, his official title. But henceforth he will be on sort of emeritus status and the real work will be done by John c. Gall, member of the Associations legal staff and buddy of Charles R. Hook, president of American Roll ing Mills and head of the NAM.
 This does not mean that the industrial lions are ready to lie down in amity with the New Deal lambs. For from it. Hook and his colleagues basically are
 just as much opposed to the Ad- ministratiOn as ever. But they come to the conclusion that there Is no percentage in per. sisting i'm an irrecOnciIab1e atti- tude toward the regime.
 After several years of close study of internal British affairs and particularly the strategy pur- sued by British Conservatives, NAM master minds decided that the best policy for them to pursue was also one of compromise and conciliation. After five years of doggedly saying ''No" and getting nowhere except to have their noses rubbed further in the dirt, they are going to try being friendly and see if they can't tame the New Deal tiger that way.
 Policy In Operation
 This new attitude was behind the study of the operation of the British labor law by a special presidential committee.
 Roosevelt announced the sur- vey and later the committees re- port was released by the White House, but the idea of the study actually originated with the Manu- lecturers Association and was cleverly planted with the Presi- dent.
 Another unheralded concilia- tory gesture was the NAM'S ad- vice to members to cooperate with the monopoly probe. In a special memorandum the Association counselled that the best way to keep the investigation from be- coming a witch hunt" was to aid the investigators to get all the facts, so that business could se- cure a full presentation of its case.
 This objective was also behind the shelving of Emery. In the
 minds of New Deal and congress sional leaders he is identified with a stiff f-necked resistance to
 all reform. His continuance as the legislative spokesman of the NAM would hardly fit in with its new strategy.
 So the Judge" has been gently kicked upstairs and a younger man who can talk the new lingo will do the legislative spieling for the Association.
 BattIe-Scarred Veteran
 To the public, Emery is an unknown figure, but in the halls and committee rooms of Con- gress he has been a fixture for more than a quarter of century.
 Tall, pink-cheeked, goateed, Emery has seen hundreds of con- gressmen and scores of senators come and go. Since 1910 he has had - or tried to have = a hand in every piece of legislation af- fecting business. He has been investigated. and many times has heard himself and his organization blasted from stem to stern on the floors of Congress.
 But no matter how hot the ex- ,coriation, he has never replied. He has always avoided personal pulp licity, keeping shy of the press and working quietly and suavely behind the scenes.
 Old Saws
 As master of old saws. Sena- tor Arthur Vandenberg is in a class by himself. In one para graph of a campaign speech in South Dakota the Michigan presi- dential white hope reeled off this drumfire of assorted cliches:
 "Man cannot live by bread alone. What profiteth it man if he gain the whole world and lose his own soul? Those who try to trade liberty for security usually wind up by losing both. Eternal vigilance is the price of