HAS LOST FRIENDS.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20539, 14 February 1935, Page 1

HAS LOST FRIENDS.

N.R.A. Conflict With Trade Unions. WASHINGTON, February 6. The American public’s spontaneous support of the New Deal is rapidly evaporating, and Mr Donald Richberg, who succeeded General Johnson as N.I.R.A. Administrator, may resign as the result of conflict with trade union leaders. Employers dislike the N.I.R.A. because of its bureaucratic control of their business affairs, while the American Federation of Labour denounced it as “an elusive rainbow of higher wages.” Senators Borah and Nye, and other powerful leaders, declare that it has been used to consolidate monopoly at the expense of small manufacturers and tradesmen. The Agricultural Adjustment Administration brought new worries for the Government, as under its high cotton prices American growers find themselves at a disadvantage in the world’s markets, while American consumers complain bitterly of the high prices of meat due to the processing taxes.