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Show CONFUSION OF CODES. There is plenty of food for thought in the report of the National Planning Plan-ning board, appointed by President Roosevelt himself, which has made a comprehensive survey of the general situation of the country. The board points out many defects in the operation opera-tion of various recovery agencies, and Is especial critical of the NRA, concerning which it says, in part: "One of the basic problems of the NRA i3 that of wages as a factor in fair competition. But the NRA has made little progress so far in settling the difficult problems of wage differences differ-ences between industries and sections. "As regards long-range objectives, it is difficult to find any semblance of planning in the NRA. In fact, the NRA has ret up new difficulties in the path of industrial planning. To begin with, the process of code making mak-ing for the purpose of recovery was so directed as to impede, rather than advance, the planful reconstruction of industry. "The codes were set up hastily on the assumption that a bad code was better than none at all. "There was thus much guesswork and a lot of bargaining in their making. mak-ing. As a result, the NRA has brought about a rift in the inter-relations of industries. Each industry is supposed to contrive a solution of its own problems, prob-lems, and the 475 codes in existence are a complex and confusing system." |