BUSY HOLIDAY

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 159, 8 July 1935, Page 7

BUSY HOLIDAY

ROOSEVELT EMISSARY.

Minister to Analyse Feeling Of Electorate.

DEMOCRATIC PARTY INQUIRY. ■(United P.A.—Electric Telegraph—Copyright) NEW YORK, July 7. The Washington correspondent of the "New York Times" states that on July 15 the Postmaster-General, Mr. James A. Farley, will leave on a six weeks' tour. Officially he will be on vacation, but while he is away he will take advantage of his travels closely to survey tho national political situation. Mr. Farley will later report directly to President Roosevelt on the widespread discontent which is said to be arising against the New Deal. It is understood that shortly after his return Mr. Farley will resign his portfolio and devote his entire attention to his position as chairman of the National Democrat party. In other words, he will work for the renomination and re-election of Mr. Roosevelt. According to persons close to the Government there are two particular sources of discontent which are causing the President concern. Firstly, there is his fight against utility holding companies, and, secondly, increased taxation; not increased Federal income taxes, to which comparatively few voters are subject, but increased State taxes, which must be raised to meet the States' share of the great public works programme. ■ Tho President has made a bold move to test the Supreme Court's definition of inter-State commerce as enunciated in the N.R.A. reversal case. He asked Congress to rush through the enactment of the Guffey Coal Bill to prevent the threatened miners' strike on July 31. He urged members to overlook any doubts ae to its constitutionality. Presumably he wishes to force the Supreme Court again to make a decision on this issue. Tho "New York Herald-Tribune" Washington correspondent says he learns that. Mr. Roosevelt proposes to deliver important addresses in various parts of the country after the adjournment of Congress in order to restate his principles and gain support for the New Deal. If the adjournment allows him to do so he will probably make his first appearance at the exhibition to be held at San Diego, California, early in September.

LABOUR LAWS.

NEW LEGISLATION SIGNED.

(Received 9.30 a.m.) WASHINGTON, July 7. Mr. Roosevelt yesterday signed the Wagner Labour Relations Bill, thus ending the two years' controversy on how the Government can legally ensure the workers' rights to collective bargaining. Under this law the temporary Labour Boards created under the New Deal will be superseded by a permanent organisation to administer the law.

RADICAL MOVEMENT.

THREAT TO ROOSEVELT.

CHICAGO, July 7. Two hundred and fifty delegates, describing themselves as "native American Radicals," met in conference on Friday in what appeared to be one of the most potentially formidable "third party" political movements of recent years. No definite organisation for the 1936 Presidential campaign was effected, but a resolution adopted declared that such would be formed if subsequent economic and political developments made it desirable. Another resolution defined the objectives as follows: "We are collectivists, who want to supplant the profit motive by planned production as the driving force of industry. We recognise, however, that individualism will have to be retained in agriculture." The . leaders, including several Congressmen, invited all dissenting groups (with the exception of the Communists) to join the movement.