N.R.A. PRESERVATION

Hokitika Guardian, 31 May 1935, Page 5

N.R.A. PRESERVATION

/AMERICAN PLANS

THE NATION MARKING TIME.

(United Press Association—By Electric Telegrapii

•WASHINGTON, May 29:

'The nation has hihrked time while from confusion* persisting as a result of'the destruction of the N,RA., there to-day occurred a series v of slowly clarifying developments. Tl\o Liberals in Congress were evolving a scheme for the preservation of the 'N-R-A- wage and hour standards, by means of direct Government competition with private industry in the labour market.

The Liberals have /now proposed that the ‘‘subsistence'"Wage” 'schedule shall be scrapped and-that the prevailing wage standard shall be substituted, and also that the Government, with its 4880 million dollars oi* a wOrlc relief fund, shall make its influence felt, on that basis' in every community where labour can be hired.

An attempt to pass a constitutional (amendment, endowing the Federal Government . with the power to regulate the" labour conditions iri industry regardless of State lines was also Doing considered.

It is. further indicated that other groups are urging President Roosevelt to summon the Governors of all of the States in order to map out emergency •action and to change thg United States constitution in such H a manner as to obviate any Supreme Court action interference. ! - v .

. Finally, it is urged that' industry shall be given the chance to show wliat it „wos.ld do-by co-operative effort. •Large ’ 'firms., and industrial associations have continued to indicate their intention - to' make no change in the Code wage, hour - and pi’ice standards, pending a clarification of the situation. -President Roosevelt briefly sketched at, a conference with the press, some of his! reactions to the reversal of the [National Recovery Act . He said that voluntary action by. industry, to save the wage, hour and- fair trade practices, Would; be commendable but it would not suffice to assure a maximum of observance.

The president indicated it as his belief that action would have to be fortified by some legal enactment.

The President was. /outwardly cheerful. He said that he had. consulted with seventy-five’lending - men during the past two days, rbut he had not yet reached a decision. \

Late in the clay it was reported that General J-ohnson had.'been I 'invited to White House to art as administrator, and that he has already started workon the re-drafting of the N.RA. There was again heavy gelling in the stock market to-day, the Wall Street prices tumbling from one to six (points. Cotton declared heavily.' Suga r had its worst ; dav for ten 'years. The coal mine unions have called a nation-wide' strike of four-' hundred and fifty thousand men for June 17, following 9n the collapse of their wage ■ negotiations.'with the mine operators. ’