Show LITTLE FIND A OICE the brief convention of little businessmen at washington called there at the request of the president under the guise of saying that he wanted the views of the ordinary run of the mill industrials began in turmoil and finished the same way no doubt in the world these men were picked thinking they were in favor of the administration and that at washington they would express themselves as in favor of the policy of of the administration in whacking BIG BUSINESS keep it up the not riot for such it was began vociferously and remain loud at length the older heads began dipping an oar into the troubled water and instead of endorsing the administration they made mandate that business be more let alone have less regulation from washington repeal the undistributed profits tax exactly what big business had voiced and this from men not of the 60 families not economic royalists not princes of privilege but just ordinary folk like our own merchants here in delta who would no doubt voice the same sentiments starting in inception to belittle big business and show it up as hateful to the little businessmen it ended far from that desired end and equally as far from an endorsement of those who sponsored the meeting soule columnists even go so far as to say 10 letters were picked out of dates in the past and from the teno of those letters the senders were invited thinking they would voice the same strain it all looks hooey and wounded up hooey the gathering was certainly ridiculed by the partisans of the administration but that ridicule still left the record intact of what they demanded that can t be ese spokesmen for the present policy contended that representative senta tive american small businessmen was and is solidly behind the administration and its social and economic objectives up to now no one could disprove that contention but now it is plain what little business wants it demanded the repeal or rigid amendment of the wagner act and passage of law to enforce on labor unions the same responsibility that capital has carry out agreements some of the speeches on the floor were an outright denunciation of the administration in brief if a u it was supposed to be this convention was honestly representative of american industries on its lower levels the new deal is definitely unpopular |