THE AMERICAN PLAN

Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 110, 6 November 1933, Page 7

THE AMERICAN PLAN

ECONOMIC RECOVERY

PHASES ON WIDE FRONTS

FARMERS AND MR. FORD

United Presa Association—By Elcctrle Tcle^

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NEW YOEK, November 4.

A variety of interesting developments occurred today on the wide fronts of tho American plan for ccono-

mie recovery.

Probably the most important was, tho failure of the conference with President Eoosevelt of'tho Governors of several farming States. The" President issued a statement expressinggrave doubts concerning tho legality or effectiveness of the fanners' pro-: ppsals Jor price-fixing, quotas, and other remedies, but invited, further conferences with the Governors' repre-

Governor Langar, of North Dakota, stated: "The conference has been a 100 per cent, failure. . I am very.: di»appointed and disgusted.- The farmer is the forgotten man. Everybody else has been here before him and got all the money. There is nothing.left fox the farmer." .

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.The Governors have departed to their various homes. Press dispatches from the various States concerned indicate the possibility of a Videspread farmors' strike holiday. '.-'•>

The relationship of Mr. Henry Ford with tho National Recovery Act administration again came to the fore when, following upon an anuonnecment that the manufacturer proposed to lay off 9000 men for.-a .week ia order to reduce the average' working hours to 35,, as provide*! by the automobile code, General Hugh Johnson issued the following statement: "We will be glad to consider making an exception and permitting him to keep, the men employed." ! The Ford Company's statement that they "are taking this mandatory step in compliance with the new prohibition against work, in this country'? plainly angered . the National Recovery Act administration. ■ ■ ;

News from Detroit indicates that the toql and die makers' strike has -been .broken. A thousand strikers in 29 shops are expected to return, on Monday. ■ ■ ■" : , ■-.■.- ■ : ■■

With the "captive"- coalmine strike in the tri-State region apparently in process of compromise a new threat to the coal-mining industry■:.occurred tonight with a-call .issued by the United Anthracite Miners' rUnioh of Pennsylvania for a general strike on Monday in order to force recognition of the new union. Sixty thousand workers are affected. : .