Show Presents Bill I J Lt L t s sC r Sf S S S Senator Harrison NEW MEASURE BOLSTERS Abandons Control of Intrastate Trade TradeS S S S WASHINGTON March 29 UP UPA UPA UP- UP A new N R H A bill abandoning federal federal federal fed fed- eral attempts to regulate purely intrastate intrastate intrastate in- in business but strengthening several other aspects of N R A was laid before congress congre toda today Senator Pat Harrison D. D Miss chairman of ot the senate finance committee com corn and administration spokesman spokes spokes- man Introduced the measure measure with the he avowed purpose of getting the theN theN N Pf R A extension question down to braSs tacks in order to uncertainty uncertainty uncertainty un un- un- un certainty which Is ic impeding busin business s sand and causing causin grave crave labor unrest t. t While Harri Harrison n said the committee was expected to make many changes the he bill was vas believed to represent the he trend of ot administration views It would extend N R A for two years beyond the present June 16 cx- cx pir tion with several major changes These are 1 l Definitions of interstate commerce commerce com com- merce and labor rights are aie rewritten rewritten rewritten ten in a maimer manner calculated to strengthen the act in the courts where th the government has lost many r recent cent cases 2 2 Regulation of ut purely intra intra- state stale commerce IS rs abandoned foreshadowing foreshadowing foreshadowing fore fore- shadowing dropping of ot the troublesome trouble some service trade rade codes 3 The collective the bargaining and labor organization guarantees of ot section are reenacted and are defined as I rights ri of or which are hereby declared and affirmed affirmed af at- firmed This declaration of ot policy policy policy pol pol- icy b by congress it t was believed would enhance chances of ot the section section sec see tion surviving cO constitutional tests 4 The previous lifting of oC the antitrust laws is mod modified Hied and the president before approving a code would have to be satisfied that it did not operate to oppress sm small ll industries or permit monopolies or r monopolistic tic practices practice Harrison introduced the bill after N RA fl-A R A Chairman D Donald mild rg warned the c committee immediate action action ac ac- ac- ac tion lion was was ne necessary es ry to meet the I danger danger dan dan- ger of ot impending labor d disturbances Many sec sections ions of ot the bill were entirely entirely en- en irely revised from the act now in force orce Some sections were dropped and some new sections are e written witten in fn The section for or the establishment of ot codes of lair fair competition pr provides o that hat a code may be promulgated d bythe by the president only after he finds linds that S 1 The group croup asking g them is truly representative and arid places no Inequitable inequitable hi- hi in In- equitable restrictions on er ship S 2 The code does doeg not operate to oppress small industries or t to pr pro pro- Continued on en Page raie Two NEW MEASURE I i BOLSTERS NH Continued d from horn Page Pase one On monopolies or monopolist ic practices j I The bill contains provisions provision t to tomake make section effective and is dg de signed to effectuate the policy Of the act Senator William B E. E Borah C has been demanding more prote tion for small business described the Harrison Harrlson bill as confused incoherent in j. coherent and contradictory and pre dieted it would not be approved My hurried reading of ot the bill leads me me to assume that no such bill bUt will ever be enacted into law he he said I cant can't believe that such uch a confused incoherent contradictory bill will ever be enacted into nto la j jas a as a guide for lor the people of ot t this thu countr country S |