NEW DEAL CRISIS

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXV, Issue 148, 8 June 1935, Page 3

NEW DEAL CRISIS

Modified N.R.A. for One Year OPPOSITION FROM LABOUR WASHINGTON, June 7. President Roosevelt met the N.R.A. crisis to-day by a decision to press a simple resolution through Congress extending the life of the Recovery Act from June 16 to June 1, 1936, with the clause giving the President power to approve or proscribe codes and enforce them eliminated to meet the Supreme Court’s constitutional objections. The resolution was immediately approved by the House committee, but today the American Federation of Labour started a counter-attack. It issued a statement declaring that the adoption of an emasculated N.I.R.A. was surrender to tho opponents of national recovery and that the Federation would lake the fight for a new Recovery Act to the people, indicating that it would sponsor a constitutional amendment to allow the Government to carry out the original programme. The Federation also issued a report declaring that at least a million workers had suffered wage cuts or increased working hours since the Schechter decision, which they interpreted as the beginning of a collapse of the existing wage structure. The American Iron and Steel Institute, representing 90 per cent, of the steel industry, has resolved to continue wherever possible the wages and hours conditions for labour provided by the steel code.