EXTENSION REQUESTED

Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 22 February 1935, Page 11

EXTENSION REQUESTED

NATIONAL RECOVERY ACT. EIGHT BROAD PRINCIPLES. !'Doited Trees Association—By Electric Telegraph Copyright). WASHINGTON, Feb, 20. President Roosevelt sent a special message to Congress to-day requesting legislation to extend the general principles of the National Industrial Recovery Act, which, expires on June 36, for a period of two years. Apparently taking cognisance of many criticisms of the present- N.R.A. administration, and also the Supreme Court’s and other criticism of his administration’s unusual executive powers, the President left the details of the new legislation wanted to the discretion of Congress. The message enunciated eight broad principles which he wished to follow. These included the strengthening of the minimum wage and working hours provisions in industrial codes to force codes on recalcitrant employers; continuation of labour’s right to collective bargaining; and greater regulative control by the Government over industries utilising national resources, such as petroleum, coal, lumber, etc., to prevent waste. As a concession to those charging the present N.R.A. plan with being oppressive to small lousinesses, 'the President recommended’ that jail sentences for code violators be eliminated and that the anti-trust laws be tightened to protect small enterprises. Admitting that the N.R.A. had made some mistakes, President Roosevelt declared that its abolition would’ be “unthinkable” and would “spell return to industrial and labour chaos.”

POLITICAL SILENCE BROKEN. RETURN TO’ GOLD STANDARD. NEW YORK, Feb. 21. A message from Tucson (Arizona) states that Mr Herbert Hoover broke a long political silence to-day in •commenting on the Supreme Court gold decision. Ho urged an immediate return to the gold standard on the present devalued basis of 59 cents with dollars “convertible into bullion.” He predicted that a denial to Government bondholders of redress to the courts would "have “grave moral consequences.”