AMERICA TO-DAY

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18255, 25 November 1933, Page 11

AMERICA TO-DAY

SIR B. FULLER’S VIEW “They were very hopeful that President Roosevelt’s national recovery scheme, would turn out suceesslully,' said Sir Benjamin Fuller, who arrived in Wellington by the Rangitane. “Mixing with business men in my business and at the clubs in New York, the impression I gained was that most people favored ‘giving it a go’ in order to get the industries moving again and to decrease the vast army of unemployed. They were, as Americans always have been, ready to try anything once in the hope that it may prove to be the way out. "At the same time,” said Sir Benjamin, “1 saw a good deal of pcaeelul mekoUngi in places not showing the .Blue Eagle,,and labels pasted on premises warning the public that the employers concerned were hot employing union labor. 1 did not see that sort of thing once or. twice, hut on many occasions. “Still, strolling round the principal avenues of retail trade in New York one' would never' gain the impression that there was a depression. Most of the big stores appeared to be very busy, and in one big place I visited there could not have been at a low estimate less than 5000 people on the ground floor alone."