STRONG ENEMIES.

Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 106, 7 May 1934, Page 7

STRONG ENEMIES.

"NEW DEAL" CRITICS. Roosevelt's 'Impatient' Message To Chamber. JOLT FOR N.R.A. EXPECTED. (United P.A.— Electric Telegraph—Copyright) WASHINGTON, May 6. The United States Chamber of Commerce closed its conference on Friday after passing a series of resolutions criticising sharply some of the features of President Roosevelt's "new deal," but not in outright opposition to the recovery programme. Rather a sharp conflict of opinion developed between Mr. Roosevelt and the business leaders over a message the President dispatched to the chamber. In this he advised them to "stop crying wolf" and urged their full co-operation with the Government. He warned them that the people would become impatient with those who gave voice to "false fears" about the nation's economic progress. The division between the Government and the industrial leaders probably will be further broadened by a vitriolic speech which General Johnson, Chief Administrator of the N.R.A., delivered in Columbus, Ohio, last evening. He said: "The friends of the N.R.A. outnumber its enemies many thousands to one, but its enemies have certain advantages. They are wealthy and powerful. They all want just this—to scuttle the whole recovery programme, to make the Blue Eagle walk the plank, to hoist the Jolly Roger on the ship of State and sail back to the good old piracy that brought the crash in 1929 and all that has happened since." The N.R.A. is expected to get one of its most severe jolts when the report prepared by the commission headed by Mr. Clarence Darrow is published in a few days. This commission was delegated to study monopolistic trends under the industrial codes.

It is" understood that- the report presents the conclusion that consumers have suffered heavily through organised price-fixing, which the N.R.A. not only allows but urges.