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Show Call for Extra Session Evokes No Enthusiasm HV LVLE C. WILSON United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Oct. 13 (U.R) President Roosevelt to-diiy to-diiy pointed the Nov. 15 special session of congress to the legislative battle front where Democratic majorities rebuffed re-buffed him during the last session just closed. Mr. Roosevelt laid down for congress an immediate five-point domestic program weighted with crop control and legislation for minimum wages and maximum hours. most urgent concern was the "lowest paid labor." He means toward peace throughout the whole world, x x x "I want our great democracy to be wise enough to realize that aloofness from war is not promoted pro-moted by unwareness of war. In a world of mutual suspicions, peace must be affirmatively reached for. "It cannot just be wished for. It cannot just be waited for. "Meanwhile, remember that from 1913 to 1921, I personally was fairly close to world events, and in that period, while I learned much of what to do, I also learned much of what not to do." The president placed a "decent profit" for business among his objectives; ob-jectives; denied that the government govern-ment sought to put individuals out of business. He charged that "whatever danger there may be to the property and profits of the many, If there be danger," comes from business restraints imposed by "private monopolies and financial finan-cial oligarchies." These he promised prom-ised to end. He said his wage and hours pro- en lied for congressional actions "right away." The immediate reaction of congressional con-gressional leaders to the special session cull and to the program outlined for them by the president in a fireside chat last night was not enthusiastic. ,Sny Call Unnecessary Republicans generally said that the special session was unnecessary unneces-sary because "no emergency" existed. Although ardent New Dealers expressed "full accord" with the action, Democratic senators sena-tors who helped defeat the president's presi-dent's judicial reorganization bill Inst summer commented reservedly. reserv-edly. Mr. Roosevelt touched only briefly on foreign affairs but he warned that we cannot avoid war by ignoring it. He implied extension exten-sion to Spain of American cooperative co-operative efforts perhaps 'by conference con-ference in search of peace. But the president said he "hated war" and promised to be guided by experiences ex-periences of the VVootlrow VVilson administration, of which he was a member, m determining what not to do. Ittal firms Foreign Policy Mr. Roosevelt re-affirmed the United States' active international co-operation in behalf of peace. He emphasized American participation partici-pation in the approaching nin-i-power pact conterence to end war in China. I Regarding the imminent nine-power nine-power conference, Mr. Roosevelt said: "Such co-operation would be an example to one of the possible paths to follow in our search for gram, by distributing jobs and shortening the work-day, should so increase consumption that production pro-duction costs would- decrease and industry would absorb "a considerable consid-erable increase in labor costs" without raising prices to the consumer. con-sumer. Describing his program as of immediate need and for the immediate im-mediate future, Mr. Roosevelt told the nation a few hours after he had called a special session that he wanted congress to enact legislation legis-lation for: 1. Crop surplus control. 2. Proper land use. 3. Re-organization of government govern-ment departments. 4. Minimum wages, maximum hours and prohibition of child labor. 5. Stronger anti-trust laws to end monopoly. He said expenditures involved in crop control could be made "and the national budget kept out of the red." Mr. Roosevelt did not repeat his request of Feb. 5 of this year for reorganization of the judiciary, but he challenged the courts on two counts, complaining that invalidation in-validation of NRA and AAA kept "many groups" on sub-standard living levels and that legal interpretations inter-pretations and the law's delays over a period of years "limited effectiveness" ef-fectiveness" of anti-trust legislation. |