Show 0 0 national topics interpreted by william bruckart unless finless all signs fall there Is going to be a deter i mined stand by bight fight for many of tile the coun li limit on try arys business interests for a ilin on tife the provisions of thona the national industrial recovery act when that question comes up for con congles gres action next january or feb i junry an linder undercurrent current of information ni to the effect that a movement to that end Is under way has begun to seep into washington ia in I 1 a growing volume it indicates that we will hear bear much about dur ing the coming campaigns indeed some come observers are convinced that president roosevelt already Is attempting to geathe get the administrations side bide of the story to tile the country by sending general beneral johnson recovery administrator out for a tour of spee chum icing to sell bell tho blue eagle to the country the it will be remembered already has declared that must be made a permanent part of oe our economic structure 1 I lim have found few persons who disagree with that thai there Is a difference of views however and it Is emphatic as to the extent exten tto to which should go in managing the count rya rys business on a permanent basis it Is upon afi that question therefore that thai the battle apparently will be waged from what I 1 can pick up around here it Is certain thata that a considerable portion of the business interests estuis Is desirous of a limitation on the recovery act provisions so BO i that they will wil 1 apply really J just usi to es establishment tab lish ment of maximum incurs fours ofaf of labor and minimum wages had and to abol abolition lilon of the sweat shop and elimination of child libor labor they are determined in their opposition to retention lori in the recovery act of provisions that give power to fix prices to control production andio and to grants of authority that bring private business books into the limelight whenever snoop snooping lg govern meni luent agents want to dig into private affairs of individuals or corporations po rations frankly Fian kly I 1 think that leatus has done more to discredit than any other phase of the law under which it operates on the alie other hand 1 only the meanest and cheapest of individuals can op that la Is designed to provide better working conditions and hours of labor for those who live by the sweat of their brow while obviously none done can foretell the result of this issue at such an early idaia date the opinions that I 1 gather among observers veis here make conko mo me belleme that there Is quite a popular appeal in the argument whick alch Is 13 being advanced for revision of the recovery act aci and limitation of control folks generally will go along with kith propositions that tha work for betterment but which do not at the same time include invasion of what they believe to be their personal rights the contends however that extension of the rec recovery overy act powers or at least retention of the powers now existent in are no aej an invasion of personal rights beyond the necessity for creating greater human happiness dut but tho the hardheaded hard headed austh business ess man great creat ai or small Is going to be hard to convince it seems to me that government control contralto olto to the extent of fixing hla fits prices and doing some of the alier aher things now permitted Is not an undue messing with ills his perso personal lial affairs t 1 elsons essons of the four year depression oll have been so severe that the there therbia reIA is little evidence of important opposition to curtailment of af hours of labor likewise sound business leaders cannot justify justl fy ty opposition posit lon to minimum wages nor can they find hd a safe ground upon which to propose use of child labor or op er atlon under sweat shop condi 4 lions attona politically ther therefore afore labor fabor will be interested only in those four tt women vote of the country 4 probably will be interested Inter cited only ln in accomplishment of those ends i iid and buil business nesi interests worth not object JJ att attention anti on was called above to the tour ach general johnson Is making in be of the blue retire eng I 1 e of t the if e to so tOKe cire and it will be recalled that some months ago I 1 reported on tho the probability of ch changes inges in management during general johnsons absence a bon beald til ot 0 live five med men constitutes the administrative authority of Its It scorns eckis to be in the nature of an experiment it if it works out satisfactorily facto rily we ft e may expect to see the veteran army officer retire to private life he has said ng as much ile he wants to get bade back into private business mr loosevelt Boo floo sevelt however alkes the qualities of general minson johnson and it 11 Is still poss possible thit that he will remain on the jobi job lie ile Is responsible for the general plan of NIM administration and the theories embodied tn in tile the V varl arl ons ides odes it would nond seoul scein tl therefore bere iere alint taip man iho worked out tile hie codes agull sany along and oft them hem down tr to the he be the goal whether general johnson continues at the helm belm or whether the management of that work la is entrusted finally to general johnsons jahnson Jh handpicked hand picked group of five it Is certain that the summer and autumn will witness elimination of many petty features of codes that haye have proved to be only annoyances I 1 bellve believe there Is agre agreement e ment among unbiased ed thinkers that development of codes at the rate necessary to make the lutt initial lill drive for abr recovery naturally brought many many provisions of a worthless character tinny many times it has been shown those thoad provisions provision have very nearly upset the good that was obviously going to result from fair practice agreements tho the job tile the five alve man man board hns hits to do lf if it remains ns as a successor to general johnson la Is to go through the codes with if a fine toothed comb and eliminate nil ali oft of the questionable and useless provisions my opinion Is inthis if this were wera done there would be much less lehs opposition to the codes and consequently to continuation or of the industrial recovery net act th the prevalent thought in wash ington then As la that as a result of tile the annoying features contained i in the codes the administration la is likely to pull hard to revise as many of 01 themas them as Is possible before next nest winter 0 jt it ill always ways has ins been true th thadian attan invalid va ld who la Is convalescing passes through a stage invalid an on the way to recovery perks up where here he develops a genuine grouch everything Everi thing hits him wrongly food Is not right and medicines are no good and a thousand and one other things furn furnish IsIf grounds for complaint this condition nearly always precedes the tim time e when tile the patient gets out of bed and takes a few steps again tile circumstance toshichi tow to which hichI I 1 have referred Is such a common commo n occurrence that it seems to td me there Is no no better illustration of the condition in which american business no now w Is represented to be it Is highly significant jn in the first in stance it shows according to the experts that business has enough new life blood to start fighting back against administration plans and policies that cramp its style and ana seco secondly daiy vigorous opposition never has failed to bo be a healthy thing for the country as a whole from the information I 1 get in many quarters it Is yet too early to tell whether commerce and industry Is gong going to be a unit in tiny any one course of its opposition the strictly ly recovery phases of 0 the now new deal are riot not going to be attacked even by tile the republican national committee that t ilu question estion apparently Is settled atle d but bus business jn interests apparently and quite logically are distinguishing bet between veen recovery and reform take tile the legislation that creat created edthe the I 1 commission for coni control rol of security ty sales and policing the stock ex exchanges as an ecamp example te I 1 frankly do donot not see how the republican leadership or bull business ness interests can expect to get far tn in criticism of f that t even it if it Is solely a reform proposition 4 not the least beasi of the problems that are arl arising sing out of the work so speedily done in legal creating and other recovery questions questions question 8 agencies are the horde of legal questions now on the hoil horizon zon one of these stands out it relates to the rights of citizens after they have the codes affair 61 fair practice and legal lights tell lil me e it runs straight back to a base in the constitution of the united states it Is an old legal maxim that after a person has accepted benefits from a statute or regulation which means a voluntary action that person way may not be heard to question the validity of the provision from which those benefits decru accrued rued ed now business men signed thetodes the codes under what lawyers claim was a voluntary act having done that it to Is claimed they cannot test the constitutionality of the law or regulations ions or the codes written under that law it seems however that there to la a difference of opinion between afie the lawyers of and the lawyers of the department of justice many lawyers outside of the government are understood to bo be gathering up all of the pieces of argument they can find respecting tho positions of the two As I 1 understand it lawyers representing codo code signers have put forth them the argument that the signing was not a voluntary action they contend that the making of codes general johnson and his aides consistently stressed the point that unless those to whom the code was to apply agre agreed eil the administrator would write a codo cod for them and they would be bount by it I 1 never heart heard it used as a meat teat but it nevertheless to Is a fact that most of f those who had dealings wath the nna IMA were afraid they would silver from the of their plants it if tacy failed to sign the he code 0 by newspaper union anlou |