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NRA. When the Recovery Act expires next June it should be renewed for one year only on a limited basis. Continuation of codes should be voluntary; minimum wages, maximum hours and prohibition of child labor should be a parf of all codes; Section 7(a) should be amended so as not to force a closed shop on any industry; price fixing should be limited to the prevention of "price demoralization''; no industry not in interstate commerce should be codified: the Government should not require compliance certificates or discriminate against any firm until it is judicially adjudged a code violator.
When the 90 tycoons had finished this platform, they looked upon it, thought it a friendly overture. Chairman Ames of the conference put it under his arm and started to Washington to offer it and his own right hand to President Roosevelt. But a Right hand can never know for sure when a Left hand will shake and when it will not. At the White House Presidential Secretary Marvin Mclntyre told Mr. Ames that the President was too busy to see him that day.
Said Relief Administrator Hopkins: "Don't make me cry: it's Christmas time. Some people spending two or three days thinking how relief should be handled and deciding in the sacred precincts of White Sulphur Springs on sending a few baskets of groceries to the unemployed, are not of much importance."
*The National Industrial Conference Board last week published its findings on the relative costs of the dole and work relief: country-wide average cost of the dole, $24.83 per case per month; average cost of work relief, $36.56 per case. But there were wide variations between states: In Delaware the dole cost $26.14 and work relief $109.92 per case: in Kentucky the dole cost $10.89, work relief $10.82; in nine states the dole cost more than work relief. Extreme example, Maryland: dole $78.04, work relief $37.71.