ALL WRONG!

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 103, 3 May 1935, Page 7

ALL WRONG!

ROOSEVELT LAWS

ROUNDLY CONDEMNED

Business Men Come to Blows at Convention. PRESIDENT UNPOPULAR. (United P.A.—Electric Telegraph—Copyright) (Received 1.30 p.m.) WASHINGTON, May 2. The growing feud between the nation's business and President Roosevelt came plainly into the open today. The Chamber of Commerce of the United States, in its annual convention here, following the President's refusal to send them his traditional message of greeting, adopted a series of resolutions sharply censuring much of the new deal.

The Chamber asked that the present N.R.A. law be allowed to lapse and Congress vote a substitute on a strictly temporary and limited basis; that the Federal Government cease its efforts to regulate public utilities; that the 30hour week should not be made law nor should a permanent National Labour Board be established. It was declared that any change fundamentally in the Federal Reserve system would be detrimental to the country, and that the Agricultural Administration must change its agricultural production restriction policies. The Administration should postpone its social security programme for at least another year. • There were open fights on the floor of the convention as the militants overrode every effort to soften the terminology of the resolutions, and adjourned in° a fighting mood, apparently determined to oppose any rapprochement with the President.