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Show SECRETARY NAGEL IS STAND PATTER ON INDUSTRIAL EMS Opposes Gary's Suggestion That Government Fix the Prices of Commodities. HOUGHTON, Jfich., Apfr ' In an address today at the quarter centennial celebration of the Michigan college of mioee, Becratary of Commerea and Labor La-bor Nagel attacked, the euggeatioa of Judge Gary, chairman of tha board of directors of tka Vailed State' Steel corporation, that th federal government govern-ment should exercise control over the prices of. eommtxlitiea. "Yea," said Secretary Nagel ia tbi connection, "and when the government runs the whole buaineea Gary will try to run the government." Tb secretary vigorously eeored agitation agi-tation for radical departures from the preeent governmental and induatnal avstema of th United States. He aaid: '"It 'a all very well to aay Let the governmeat (x prices: then they can he made low enough for n. But when we undertake to fix prices for the consumer, con-sumer, we must of necessity tlx prieee for the producer; Ihea we muet flx eon ditiooa and wage ia tha faetorx; and th reeult ia tha government cootrole everv industry: aad wh it controls it. It owes .' Secretary Kegel aaid a grave miataka waa being made In approaching the corporations cor-porations problem from ooly one aid' that of prosecution of tha bad. H aaid some meaeurea for tha protection of tha good were imperative if tba Bommeree of the I'nited Statea waa to be kept at th station it ka reached ia the trade of the world. "A corporation cannot learn whether it miT go ahead with its bnsineaa safely safe-ly wi'tkout getting itself aued to determine de-termine whether it ia legal," aaid Secretary Sec-retary Nagel. "I believe th department of commerea com-merea and labor should act eoeatrue-tivaly. eoeatrue-tivaly. It ahoald b able to aay what ia legal and what la not; to pro-rid pro-rid a form into which an industry may be eaat witkout a auit and a decree. " Mr. Nagel vigorously attacked the Initiative, referendum tied recall. |