APPEAL TO ROOSEVELT
WAGES & HOURS BILL
RADICAL REVISION URGED
WASHINGTON, January 20. Fifty of the nation's business leaders presented to President Roosevelt a statement promising their co-operation in combating recession, but demanding radical revision of the President's Wages and Hours Bill and a truce with j public utilitfes.
President Roosevelt was cautioned against a general purge of holding companies and against any further tinkering with the currency.
The statement concluded with an expression of faith in the efficacy of the principles of democracy. President Roosevelt said that the Government was seeking simple machinery by which its policies could be formulated. He insisted that Congress must pass the Wages and Hours Bill. .The quarrel with public utilities was only with a recalcitrant 15 per cent. Labour unions should voluntarily make public their receipts and expenditures in the same way as under the British system.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 17, 21 January 1938, Page 9
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