THE DEATH KNELL

Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 175, 24 June 1935, Page 7

THE DEATH KNELL

FOR N.R.A. POLICY. BUSINESS MAN’S IMPRESSION. Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, June 24. “From the point of view of the big manufacturer the wiping out of the N.R.A. in the United States is one of the worst things that could have possibly happened,” said Mr David Talimeiy of Auckland, who returned by the Maunganui to-day from a business trip.

So far as the small employer was concerned the position was different. He had bad a hard time of it, being unable to compete, but ho may nowcome into his own again. Big business concerns had been working along the N.R.A. lines and wages had been practically stabilised. All- Talimer said the strikes were not necessarily the result of the Supreme Court having ruled out the N.R.A. President Roosevelt came into power with various pledges. He had promulgated Socialist legislation and allied himself practically with Air Green, heau of the Trade Union. Wages had been kept up and the hours shortened. When the N.R.A. was ruled to bo unconstitutional the schemes upon which hours and wages were based became void. It was hard to know what President Roosevelt and his party would be able to work out to circumvent ‘the difficult position that had arisen. Labour was definitely out now to compel President Roosevelt to carry out a scheme of higher wages and shorter hours. The N.R.A. appeared to be finished; it was iust a question now of what would be brought forward in its place.