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General Strike in San Francisco Area Collapses—North
Dakota’s Hot Political Row—Mrs. McAdoo
Divoreces the Senator.
By EDWARD W, PICKARD
© by Western Newspaper Union,
ONCE more it has been demon
strated that the general strike is
not a successful weapon in the hands
of organized labor inthe United States
In Industrial disputes,
The Ban Franeisco
waions, dominated for
the moment by radi
culs, undertook to use
this weapon, and with
intwodays were
reed o admit their
fallure, Governor Mer
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and other officials,
strongly backed by
public opinfon, were
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Francisco and the surrounding com:
munities should not be deprived of
the necessities of life, that the em
® bargo on food shipments should be
broken and that transportation should
not be stopped. Nearly 8,000 members
of the National Guard were mobilized
to ald the police, and their efforts
were seconded by hastily formed bands
of vigilantes which raidéd the head
quarters and gathering places of the
Communists, The central committee
in charge of the strike goon realized
the movement was collapsing and the
censervative members, regiining ‘con
trol, relaxed the restrictions, and made
an offer of arbitration under certain
conditions,
On Thursday the general strike was
formally called off and the men or
dered hack to work.
General Johnson, NRA administra.
tor, acting a8 spokesman for the fed
eral maritime dispute board there, was
on hand determined to bring about a
peaceful settlement. The Pacific coast
maritime strike, on behalf of which
the mass walkout was called, re
mained a difficult problem, for the
Jongshoremen and maritime workers
were insistent that the main dispute
in thelr case, control of the *“hiring
hallg,” should not be subjected to ar
bitration.
To the average person the whole
thing looked unreasonable and unnec
essary. The longshoremen, like their
fellow workers all anlong the west
const, have been on strike for changed
working conditions, and were Jjoined
by the marine workers and teamsters,
Then Joseph P. Ryan, national presi
dent of the longshoremen, signed an
agreement that the men would return
to work pending arbitration and a
labor disputes beard was appointed
by President Roosevelt. But Harry
Bridges, an Australlan radical who Is
head of the local maritime workers,
gained control of the situation and
absolutely blocked the move for arbi
tration, persuading the men to repudi
ate the Ryan agreement, In the unions
of the San Franelsco metropolitan
area It Is sald the conservatives out.
number the radicals, but the latter
are trained in the tacties of Intimida
tion and are seeking to wreck the
trades unions for the benefit of the
cause of Communism.
Mayor Angelo J. Rossi announced a
pledge to run every "Communistic ag
ftator” out of San Francisco. The
pledge, announced through an emer
« geney cltizens' committee, said:
1 pledge to you that I, as chief ex
ecutive in San Francisco, to the full
extent of my authority, will run out
of San Francisco every Communistic
agitator, and this is going to be a con
tinuing policy In San Francisco.”
T;llcllE was disquieting strike news
from many parts of the country,
The unions of Portland, Ore., were
pushing their plans for a general
strike, and their officlals said nothing
could now be done to prevent it. The
truck drivers of Minneapolis and their
helpers voted for a renewal of their
strike which in May tied up trans
portation and resulted in fatal riots.
Representatives of 40 out of 42
locals of the United Textile Workers
in Alabama decided on a state-wide
strike which will affect 18,000 opera
tives, The date was not announced,
Demands made to the employers in
clude: Thirty hour week with sl2 min
fmum pay, abolition of the “stretch.
out” system, reinstatement of all jobs
abolished under the stretcheut sys
tem; reemployment of all warkers
discharged for union activity and rec
ognition of the textile workers' union
for collective bargaining under provi
stons of the NRA,
Employees of Walter J. Kohler in
Kohler village, Wisconsin, are out on
sirike and began picketing the plant,
though it has been closed down since
July 4. These workers for whom Koh
ler built and maintained an *ideal”
fodustrial town and who have been
treated with remarkable generosity by
the company, demand recognition of
their union, a minimum wage of 63
cents an hour and a 30-hour week
The company has its own employees'
union, a minimum waze of 40 cents
an hour, and a 40 hour week,
CAlNS'l‘l’K‘l?'l‘l().\'.\Ll'l‘\‘ of the Bank
-4 head cotton act IS to be tested in
the federal courts. Gaston Therrell of
Columbus, Miss., has served notice
that he will bring the suit in the
United States district court at Mer
fdian, directing It against Henry A,
Wallace, secretary of agriculture, and
internal revenue and extension officlals
In the state charged with executlon
of the act’s provisions,
HUUSING conditiong in the United
States amply demonstrate the
need for new housing, Acting Secre
tary Dickinson of the Commerce de
partment said in making publie results
of a national “real property inventory,”
now heing conducted by the Commerce
department,
Sixteen per cent of 1,811,462 dwell
Ings n 99 cities are in crowded condi
tion “or worse.” Mr. Dickinson sald,
An additional 16.6 per cent are In need
of structural repairg and 44.7 per cent
need minor repairs. The incomplete
returns show 32442 houses, or 2.34 per
cent of the total, as “unfit for human
habitation.”
N()RTH DAKOTA was in a state of
politieal chaos, with two men hat
tling for the governorship and the con
trol of the sgtate government and Na
tional Guard. William
H. Langer. according
to a ruling of the
_State Supreme court,
was no longer entitled
to hold the office of
governor because of
hig recent conviction
on charges of con
spiracy to defraud
the federal govern
ment. The court de
creed that he must
give up his office to
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Gov, Ole H. Olson, Langer defied the
court, refused to move out of office, sum
moned the National Guard to_ support
him and called a special session of
the legislature, which he dominates,
Olson countermanded these orders,
and Adjt. Gen. Barle R. Sarles seemed
to side with him, though he kept two
companies of the Natlenal Guard on
duty in Bismarck to quell possible dis
orders. It was reported that thou
sands of farmers were on their way
to the ecapital city determined to sup
port Langer In whatever mction he
might demand. It was believed the
legislature would vote wholesiale im
peachments of state officlals, possibly
including the members of the Supreme
court, who voted to oust Langer,
State Senator A. B. Bonzer, in an
address at Bismarck, declared the
Jurists had “pretended to base their
decision as though Interpreting the
constitution of this state.”
“The Supreme court of this state”
he said, *“has linked itself with the
federal courts in an endeavor to con
tinue the persecution of one who has
dared to be a leader for the common
people—namely, Gov, William Langer."
Langer and several co-defendants
were convicted In June. The federal
government charged that the Langer
group forced federal employees to con
tribute to a political fund. This fund,
it was said, was collected supposedly
for a newspaper. The government
contended that the money eventually
went into the campalign chest., Langer
goon afterward was re-nominated by
an overwhelming vote, and following
this he was sentenced to 18 month in
prison.
SENAT()R WILLIAM G. McADOO
of California was too fond of pol
itics and travel to sult his wife, whose
Interests were in sculpture, palnting
and home life. So the former Eleanor
Wilson, daughter of the war-time
President, went before a judge In Los
Angeles with her complaint and in
42 minutes had been granted an inter. |
locutory divorce decree. “Mental
cruelty” was the charge, and Mrs
MecAdoo testified that the senmator had
heen living almost entirely in Wnsh-l
} ington for two years, and that it was
impossible for her to reside in the
National Capital because the climate |
there was injurious to her health, ‘
Senator McAdoo did not contest the I
divorce, and there was a property set- |
tlement the detalls of which were not |
made publie. The custody of the two |
children was vested in both parents.l
It was revealed that the McAdoos have
been separated since last December, I
DAYS of torrential rain in the |
mountains of southern Poland re
sulted in raging floods that pnuredi
through the valleys, drowning perhaps
as many as three hundred persnus.§
More than 55,000 were without food |
and shelter. The property less was
tremendous, all the crops just hae
vested being ruined. |
Many popular resorts crowded by
summer vacationists were cut off,
Righty-three camps of Boy and Girl%
Scouts were evacuated, after the
youths experienced harrowing difficul- 1
ties. |
le several hours earthquakes shook
all Panama and Costa Rica, but the
Panama canal was unhurt. The most
serious damage was at David, Panama,
not far from the Costa Rican border.
There many buildings fell and scores
of persons were injured. Considerable |
losses were sustained also at Puortoj
Armuelles, the United Fruit company's |
Pacifie side banana headquarters. One
American soldler was killed by jump- I
ing from a barracks window at Fort
Davis. :
WHEELER COUNTY EAGLE, ALAMO, GLORGIA
l PRESIDENTIAL SECRETARY MAR
VIN MINTYRE announced that
| the President had created a special
}mmmittee to formulate a new fed-
| eral policy concern
' ing the generation
| and distribution of
electricity, and in
| Washington this was
looked upon as a
probable move for
the mationalization of
the power industry.
In a letter to Secre
tary Ickes asking
him to head the com
mittee, Mr. Roosevelt
gaid: *“lts duty will
be to develop a plan for the closer
co-operation of the several factors in
r our electrical power supply-—both pub
e and private~whereby national pol
fey in power matters may be unified
and electricity be made more broadly
available at cheaper rates to industry,
to domestie, and, particularly, to agri
cultural consumers,
"As time goes 01, there undoubtedly
will be legislation on the subject of
holding companies and for the regula
tion of electric current in interstate
commerce. This committee should con
sider what lines should be followed in
shaping up this legislation. Since a
number of the “*ates have commis
sfons having juriadiction over intra
state power matters, it I 8 necegsary
that whatever plan Is developed shouald
have regard to the powers of these
various state commigsions as well as
of the states in gereral.”
Besides Mr. Ickes, who i 8 to act as
chairman, the committee will consist
of Dr. Elwood Mead, burean of recla
mation ; Frank 'R, McNinch, federal
power ecoumission; Morris L. Cooke,
of the PWA Mississippi valley com
mittee ; Maj, Gen. Edward M. Mark
ham, chief of army engineers; Robert
E. Healy, of the federal stock ex
change eommisslon: David B, Lillien
thal, Tennessee valley authority, and
T. W. Norcross, assistant chief of the
forest service,
KIN(} GEORGE of FEngland offl
cially opened the Mersey tunnel
econnecting Liverpool and Birkenhead,
the largest underwater highway of its
kind in the world. More than half a
mile longer than the Holland tunnel
of New York. the tube under the Mer
sey river stretches 11,380 f'eet from the
mitin entrance in Birkenhead. In addi
tion to the main tunnel, which accom
modates four vehicles abreast, there
are two-lane tributaries eonnecting the
docks which give the whole undertak
ing a length of 15465 feet.
The engineers responsible for the
design of the $30.000000 tube, chief
among whom s Sir Basil Mott, con
cede they owe much to the experience
American engineers gained on the Hol
land tunnel. They waited until the
American tunnel had been operated
hefore completing their plans for the
Mersey project's ventilation plant,
TAM.\'IANY HALL has a new chief
tain in the person of James J. Dool-
Ing, elected at the urgent demand of
Postmaster General Farley. He took
hils seat at the head of the once great |
Democratic organization and an- |
nounced that he would undertake to
do two things. The first is to restore
harmony within the saciety by eiim-
Inating factional disputes: the second, |
and perhaps harder task, is to change ‘
the New York point of view toward
Tammany.
ALL Germany and most of the rest
of the world heard Adolf Hitler
Justify his bloody purging of the Nazl
party, involving the violent deaths of
77 persons, and his
deflanice of his ene
mies within and with
out the reich. The
chancellor in his
speech before a com
plaisant reichstag em
ployed his well knowa
gift of oratory to the
limit, and unless the
Berlin correspondents
are mistaken, he won
to his support the
great majority of Ger
mans who were wa-
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vering in their allegiance to him.
Hitler not only defended the slaugh
ter of the alleged conspirators, but
also gave warning that a like fate
awaits all other “traitors.”
“Every one is to know for all fu
ture times,” he said, “that, if he raises
his hand for attack against the state,
certain death will be his lot.”
Far from apologizing for the kil
ings, he shouted: “I gave orders to
shoot those who were mainly respon
sible for treachery. I gave further
eorders to burn out into the raw flesh
the pest boil of our internal well
poisoning and the poisoning of forelgn
countries. I was the supreme court of
the land for 24 hours.”
His indictment of Roehm and the
circle of perverts that surrounded him
was terrific In its details and con
vineing te most of his countrymen. }
Just before the delivery of his ad- |
dress, Hitler and his government were |
notified by Great Britain and Italy |
that they approved the eastern Euro- i
pean security pacts that France is
fostering. These would include Rus
sia, Poland, the Baltic states and
(zechoslovakia, and unless Germany |
also signed up the result would be the I
forging of an iron band around the
rerch. ‘
Hitler alluded to this plan in de
fiant language. He said:
“If our trade balance, through eco- t
nomic barriers in foreign markets or |
through political boycott, becomes & |
passive one, we shall, through our own |
ability and thanks to the genius oté
our inventors and chemists, find ways |
of making ourselves independent of |
those raw materials which we our |
selves are in a position to manufacture ;
or find substitutes for.™ i
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z 1,000,000 Jumpers
Il Hitler Keeps His Grip
[ Baby Lama ls Found
Clarence Darrow, most guccessful
eriminal lawyer, says NRA is led by
amateurs that do not understand polit
ical economy,
\Who does understand political econ
omy?
Mr. Darrow rebukes the President
for “failing to call in men versed in
statesmanship.” !
) Who are those men in this country?
!Mr. Darrow should name them.
] You can do things, when you con
'tml a country absolutely, as Stalin
| controls Russia, with all money,
earned by everybody, spent, to carry
out government plans,
' \Having trained millions of young
| men and women in aerodynamics, as
{ preparation for flying, the Russian
| government plans to train one million
épurachute Jumpers, not ten thousand
or & hundred thousand, but one mil
lion, by the end of this year.
Itussia does.things in a big way.
That Hitler still retains his power
in Germany and his grip on the Ger
man imagination Is shown in his latest
reichstag speech, Hailed with frantic
acelatm in the streets of Berlin, loudly
applauded by the subservient reichs
tag, with army and people under his
thumb, it ts difficult to see what can
destroy his power short of a collapse
in Germany’s econoinic resources. The
tplflt that, according to his own state
[ment, Hitler punished with seventy
] seven “traitors’ 7 deaths, evidently did
' not have the people back of it
} Thibetan Buddhists have discovered
the reincarnation of their late lament
- ed Dalal Lama.
. The last Lama, ruling Thibet as
spiritual apd temporal head from the
¢rimson and white palace of Lhasa,
died last December. It then became
the business of Buddhist priests to
find a baby born at the exact minute
of the Lama's death, The baby must
have certain marks on his head to
prove that he is the reincarnation of
the dead man and contains his spirit.
“The right baby with the right marks
has been found in a humble home far
from Lhasa. A clever Buddhist priest
will rule until the baby Lama reaches
the age of eighteen. Meanwhile, the
haby will be carefully locked after
and highly honored.
} Unlike the ancient Buddhist rein
‘carrmtions, he is not expected to sit
in the air without any support and
deliver a sermon at birth.
The wise merchant tells his clerks:
“The customer is always right”
James J. Dooling, new leader of Tam
many hall, tells those under him, the
entire human machinery of the big
gest city: “If public opinion is against
anything there must be changes, be
cause publie opinion is always right.”
Mr. Dooling as leader of Tammany
{s very young, only forty-one. Tam
many has always thought a leader
should be over fifty. Croker and Mur
phy were over fifty. Some Tammany
men feel that Mr. Dooling is “‘too high
|y educated.” At Fordham college, he
studied Greek and Latin as well as
law. é
We have troubles in this country,
but look at China, Her chief wheat
regions are burning up under a tem
periature as high as 115 degrees, many
are dead, cholera is Kkilling others.
Locusts in many places desiroy what
intense heat and drouth have left of
the crop. Widespread famine next
winter is Inevitable,
Here, we manufacture our troubles.
To unfortunate China, providence or
nature sends them.
Bertrand Russell says the British,
ruling India, “act like Nazis.," For the
crime of desiring self-government, ac
cording to Bertrand Russell, Hindus
have been deprived of “the elementary
liberties that make life tolerable.”
You wonder when the Hindus pos
sessed any such liberties, except, to a
limited extent, among Hindus of the
hizhest class. Among them “liberty”
tncluded the right to inflict horrilile
injustice on the miserahle outcast un
touchables, also the right to marry
little girls ten years old and younger,
and the right to have young widows
burned alive with the corpses of their
old husbands.
The big telephone company In the
first six months of 1934 earned $61,-
909 (00, net, after charges and federal
taxes, which seems a good deal of
money. But it is only $3.32 a share
on the company's 18,662,275 shares of
stock.
Prospects are improving for the tele
phones, however, and a net income of
$61.000,000 for six months i{s “some
thing.”
Mr. John Jacob Astor, interesting
youth of Newport, cutting short his
travels, returns to New York unex
pectedly and announces that he will
take a job and go to work “just as
goon as the hot weather ends” Ar
riving in New York’s Grand Central
terminal, he was met by “forty rail
road detectives and six private detec
tives.” ,\This seems a good many de
tectives for one young gentleman, who,
so far as the world knows, has never
done anything to make detectives
necessary.
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Washington.—Unless all signs fail
there is going to be a determined
stand by many of the |
Fight for country'sbusiness in
o e terests for a4 Hmita-
Limit on NRA tion en the provis
ions of the national industrial recov
ery act when that question comes up
for congressional action next January
or February. An undercurrent of in
formation, to the effect that a move
ment to that end is under way, has
begun to seep into Washington in a
growing volume. It indicates that we
will hear much about NRA during the
coming campaigns. Indeed, some ob
servers are convinced that President
Roosevelt already is attempting to get
the administration’s side of the story
to the country by sending General
Johnson, recovery administrator, out
for a tour of speechmaking to sell the
blue eagle to the country.
The President, it will be remem
bered, already has declared that NRA
must be made a permanent part of our
economic structure, 1 have found few
persons who disagree with that. There
is a difference of views, however, and
it is emphatie, as to the extent to
which NRA should go in managing the
country’s business on a permanent
basis, It is upon that question, there
fore, that the battle apparently will be
waged.
From what 1 can pick up around
here, it is certain that a considerable
portion of the business interests 1s de
girous of a limitation on the recovery
act provisions so that they will apply
really just to establishment of maxi
mum hours of labor and minimum
wages, and to abolition of the sweat
shop and elimination of child labor.
They are determined in their opposi
tion to retention in the recovery act es
provigions that give power to fix
prices, to econtrol production and teo
grants of authority that bring private
business books into the limelight when
ever snooping government agents want
to dig into private affairs of individ
uals or corporations. Frankly, 1 think
that feature has done more to discred
it NRA than any other phase of the
law under which it operates, On the
other hand, only the meanest and
cheapest of individuals can oppose any
move that is designed to provide better
working conditions and hours of labor
for those who live by the sweat of
their brow,
While obviously none can foretell
the result of this issue at such an
early date, the opinions that 1 gather
among observers here make me be
lieve that there i 8 quite a popular ap
peal in the argument which is being
advanced for revision of the recovery
act and limitation of NRA control
Folks generally will go along with
propositions that work for betterment,
but which do not at the same time in
clude invasion of what they helieve to
be their personal rights. The adminis
tration contends, however, that exten
sion of the recovery act powers—or at
least, retention of the powers now ex
istant in NRA—are not an invasion of
personal rights bevond .the necessity
for creating greater human happiness.
But the hard-headed business man,
great or small, I 8 going to be hard to
convince, it seems to me, that govern
ment controi to the extent of fixing his
prices and doing some of the other
things now permitted IS not an undue
messing with his personal affairs,
The lessons of the four-year depres
sion have been so severe that there is
little evidence of important opposition
to curtailment of hours of labor. Like
wise, sound business leaders cannot
Justify opposition to minimum wages
nor can they find a safe ground upon
which to propose use of child labor or
operation under sweat shop conditions.
Politically, therefore, labor will be in
terestgd only in those four items; the
women vote of the country probably
will be interested only in accomplish
ment of those ends, and business in
terests worthwhile will not object.
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Attention was ecalled above to the
tour which General Johnson is making
in behalf of the
Johnson Wants blue eagle of the
to Retire NRA, and it will
be recalled that
some months ago 1 reported on the
probability of changes in NRA man
agement. During General Johnson's
absence, a board c¢f five men consti
tutes the administrative authority of
NRA. It seems to be in the nature
of an experiment. If it works out sat
isfactorily, we miay expect to see the
veterap army officer retire to private
life. He has said as much. He wants
to get back into private business, Mr.
Roosevelt, however, likes the fighting
qualities of General Johnson, and it
is still possible that he will remain
on the job. He is responsible for the
general plan of NRA administration
and the theories embodied in the va.
rious codes, It would seem, therefore,
that the man who worked out the
codes should stay along and sift
them down to the permanent level, if
permanency be the goal.
Whether General Johnson continnes
at the helm, or whether the manage
meont of that work is entrusted finally
to General Johnson's hand-picked
group of five, it iz certain that the
summer and autuinn will witness elim
ination of many petty features of
codes that have proved to be only an
noyances. 1 believe there is agree
ment among unbiased thinkers that
development of codes at the rate nec
essary to make the initial drive for
recovery naturally brought many pro.
visions of a worthless character. Many
times, it has been shown, those pro
visions have very nearly upset the
good that was obviously going to re
sult from fair practice agreements,
The Job the five-man board has to do,
if it remains as a successor w (Gen
eral Johnson, iB/to go through tho
codes with a fine-toothed comb anag
eliminate all of the questionable ang
useless provisions. My opinion is, if
this were done, there would be much
less opposition to the eodes and con
sequently to continaation of the in
dustrial recovery act.
The prevalent thought in Washing
ton, then, Is that as a result of the
annoying features contained in the
codes, the administration is likely to
pull hard to revise as many of them as
is possible before next winter. Much
of this work obviously will have to be
done before election and such political
effect as may be will be reaped in the
ballot boxes.
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It always has been true that an {n
valid who I 8 convalescing passes
through a stage on
Invalid the way to recovery
Perks Up where he develops a
genuine grouch. Ev
erything hits him wrongly. Food ts
not right and medicines are no good,
and a thousand and one other things
furnish grounds for complaigt. This
condition nearly always precedes the
time when the patient gets out of bed
and takes a few steps again.
The circumstance to which | have
referred Is such a common occurreng”
that it seems to me there is no bett""
illustration of the condition in wl&
American business now I 8 represer.. .«
to be. It Is highly significant. In the
first instance, it shows, according to
the experts, that husiness has enough
new life blood to start fighting back
against administration plans and pol
icies that cramp its style, and, sec
ondly, vigorous opposition never has
failed to be a healthy thing for the
country as a whole.
From the information I get in many
quarters, it is yet too early to teld
whether commerce and industry is go
ing to be a unit in any one course of
its opposition. The strictly recovery
phases of the New Deal are not going
to be attacked, even by the Republican
national committee. That question ap
parently is settled. But business in
terests apparently and quite logically
are distinguishing between recovery
and reform. Take the legislation that
created the commission for control of
security sales and policing the stock
exchanges, as an example. I frankly
do not see how the Republican leader
ship or business interests can expect
to get far in criticism of that, even if
it is solely a reform proposition. Onp
the other hand, business interests can
and will attack such projects as the
government manufacture and sale of
electric power in open competition
with private plants, such as is taking
place under the experiment in the
Tennessee valley.
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Not the least of the problems that
are arising out of the work so speed
ily done in creating
Legal NRA and other re
: covery agencies are
Qumu"u the horde of legal
questions now on the horizon. One of
these stands out. It relates to the
rights of citizens after they have
signed the codes of fair practice, and
legal lights tell me it runs straight
back to a base lu the Constitution of
the United States.
It is an old tegal maxim that after a
person has accepted benefits from &
statute or regulation, which means a
voluntary action, that person wmay oot
be heard to question the validity of
the provision frow which those be S
accrued. Now, business men s%l
the codes under what NRA la®ers
claim was a voluntary act. Having
done that, it is claimed they ecannot
test the constitutionality of the law or
regulations (or the codes) written un
der that law.
It seems, howeyer, that there is a
difference of opinion between the law
yers of NRA and the lawyers as the
Department of Justice. Many lawyers
outside of the government are under
stood to be gathering up all of the
pieces of argument they can find re
specting the positions of the two gov
ernmental groups.
As [ understand It, lawyers repre
senting code signers have put forth the
argument that the signing was not a
voluntary action, They contend that
throughout the making of codes, Gen
eral Johnson and his aides consistently
stressed the point that unless those to
whom the code was to apply, agreed
the administrator would write a code
fer them and they would be bound by
it. [ never heard it used as a threat,
but it nevertheless is a fact that most
of those who had dealings with the
NRA were afraid they would suffer
from the licensing of their plants If
they failed to sign the codes.
These technicalities may appear in
consequential, but they are of the
greatest importance. There are going
to be court tests of some provisions of
the recovery act and the authority ex
ercised by NRA. The consensus here
seems to be that these tests will In
clude many suits that ovght never to
have been brought as well as some
that will serve to clarify the laws it
they result in real court consideration,
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