Show The New N B R A TP F THE TIrE congress will move speedily toward I IF J. J framing the new national industrial recovery ery ely act give adequate opportunity for public hearings and make it possible for the voice voice of the little man to be heard leard even cven though he may not be able to finance a trip to the capital for a personal appearance another big pig step will have Ilave been taken toward clearing I away the lack of confidence which business businessmen businessmen men sa say is holding the country back bacIe Everyone Everyne Every Every- voted by the one ne will hope that the inquiry senate will b be productive All AU senate hearings are not noL There is opportunity to di discover cover the outstanding shortcomings of N R II A and to their effect upon business and industry One One of the great boons boom which the new legislation leg leg- can afford arford will be to curtail tIle tic quasi legislative powers of the bureaus and boards which administer the act While there must be some elasticity in the new law it cannot be beas beas bens as ns stretchy a as aG the original draft The endless flow of rules orders and regulations promulgated g gated ted b by N R B A which essentially was new lIew legislation has kept the whole recovery program program pro pro- gram grum in a constant state of flux What would be permitted today might llight be declared unlawful unlawful ful tomorrow No progress can be made under such circumstances V The temper of the president in one respect should be matched by the legislation He lIe calls f for r a better method of enforcement than to seek to put people in jail This calls calls' for abandonment of the crackdown and word wordy reference to The president calls caUs for legislative clarification cation of policies Nowhere is this more needed needed need need- ed d than in iii regard to section the tIle labor clause He ic is a serene optimist as he remarks The pattern of new industrial relations is definitely taking shape This is said aid at a time when lIen the renewing of the automobile code has bas ripped industrial relations wide open Informed public opinion in r Washington ashington is I that strong pressure will be brought to bear to rewrite section in terms of the Wagner labor disputes bill to which the president is declared to be opposed New Yorks York's crusading g senator wants to require recognition of the unions unions by law Jaw He would outlaw company unions He lie would make acceptance of the majority majority ma ma- union compulsory as the sole medium of collective c bargaining He Ire would have the labor relations board become the supreme court of labor Jabor Storm clouds will gather as this is de de- de- de bated Regardless of the vigor of dissenters every poll pon that has been taken has shown a majority of interests canvassed calling for a continuation continua continua- tion of codification The result has been that N R R. A officials F P T C 0 N I R B 13 A A A the department of justice and all others who have been in the recovery picture have accumulated ed a vast ast amount of data as the raw material for the new enactment The president indicated indi indi- that all this is available to congress It will be Majority Leader Robinsons Robinson's job to assemble assemble as as- it and whip it into shape for a first draft raft as the basis for committee hearings The results of these and the report of the senate investigation to together with the ti turns ns in the presidents president's message of Wednesday will shape the new N R A. A One guess is as asgood asgood good as another as to what it will be One thing to to remember is that it will still be in force when Mr rr Roosevelt's term expires It is not the least unlikely that the administration will ill get ct behind a measure calculated to make the country feel that one good term deserves another Good guessers may be able to hazard something as to the nature of the new legislation legis legis- 0 lation on that basis |