RECOVERY ACT

Wairarapa Daily Times, 22 February 1935, Page 5

RECOVERY ACT

EXTENSION MOVE

TWO YEARS MORE,

Press Association Electric Telegraph—Copyright WASHINGTON, Wednesday.

President Roosevelt sent a special message to Congress to-day requesting legislation to extend the general principles of the National Industrial RceoA r ery Act, which expires on 16th June, for a period of trvo years. Apparently taking cognisance of many criticisms of the present N.R.A. administration, and also the Supreme Court’s and other criticism of his administration’s unusual executive poAA rers, the President left the details of the new legislation Avanted to the discretion of Congress. The message enumerated eight broad principles which he wished to folloAv. These included the strengthening of the minimum wage and working hours proAnsions in industrial codes to force codes on recalcitrant employers; continuation of labour’s right to collective bargaining, and greater regulative control by the Government over industries utilising national resources, such ns potroleum, coal, lumber, etc., to prevent Avaste.

As a concession to those charging the present N.R.A. plan Avith being oppressive to small businesses, the President recommended that jail sentences for code violators be eliminated, and that the anti-trust Mays be tightened to protect small enterprises. Admitting that the N.R.A. had made some mistakes, President Roosevelt declared that its abolition would be “unthinkable” and would “spell return to industrial and labour chaos.”