RECOVERY ACT

Southland Times, Issue 25306, 8 June 1935, Page 5

RECOVERY ACT

EXTENSION OF LIFE RESOLUTION PRESENTED BY PRESIDENT LABOUR CRITICISM (United Press Assn.— Telegraph Copyright.) (Rec. 7.45 p.m.) Washington, June 6. Mr Roosevelt met the N.R.A. crisis to-day by a decision to press a simple resolution through Congress extending the life of the Recovery Act from June 16 to June 1, 1936, with a clause giving the President power to approve or prescribe codes and enforce them to meet the Supreme Court’s constitutional objections. The resolution was immediately approved by the House Committee, but to-day the American Federation of Labour started a counter-attack. It issued a statement declaring that the adoption of an emasculated N.I.R.A. meant “surrender to the opponents of national recovery,” and said the federation would take the fight for a new Recovery Act to the people, indicating that it would sponsor a constitutional amendment to allow the Government to carry out its original programme. The federation also issued a report declaring that at least a million workers had suffered wage cuts or increased working hours since the Schechter decision, which they interpreted as the beginning of the collapse of the existing wage structure.