MESSAGE TO CONGRESS.
. v PRESIDENT'S LEGISLATIVE PROGRAMME. (By Cable—Press Association—Copyright.) and N.Z. Cable Association.) WASHINGTON, December 8. President Harding has sent a message to Congress outlining, the most extensive legislative programme submitted for many years. The domestic legislation recommended included enlargement of the powers or the Farmers' Loan Board to provide ample agricultural, live stock, and production credits; secondly, as Government operation did not afford a cure for transportation ills, the railways ought to be merged into a few :ysteins, their equipment being pooled; thirdly, abolition of the Railway Labour Board and the substitution of a four-man tribunal within the InterState Commerce Commission; fourthly, anti-strike measures to provide enforcement of this tribunal's decrees; fifthly, a Constitutional amendment against the employment of child labour; sixthly, a plan to draft the entire resources of the nation in wartime. Lastly, the President urged a law for the registration of aliens, declaring that many were abusing America's hospitality.
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Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 17634, 11 December 1922, Page 7
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