ROOSEVELT’S NEW DEAL

Greymouth Evening Star, 3 May 1935, Page 7

ROOSEVELT’S NEW DEAL

INCREASING OPPOSITION BUSINESS MEN’S DEMANDS [by CABLE —PRESS ASSN. —COPYRIGHT.] (Received May 3, 2.30 p.m.) WASHINGTON, May 2.

The growing feud between the nation’s business and Mr Roosevelt came plainly into the open, to-day, when the Chamber of Commerce of the United States, in annual convention here, following the President’s refusal to send them the 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 a Congress vote substituted, on a strictly temporary and limited basis. That the Federal Government cease efforts to regulate public utilities, the thirty-hour week should not be made law, nor should the permanent National Labour Board be established. Any change fundamentally in the Federal Reserve system would be detrimental to the country. The N.R.A. must change its agricultural production 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 rapprochment with the President.