Vag.bond Editorials

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Again in my scrap book, I find these words of a famods that the bill empowered this board which it likewise created Southern lawyer, long since gone to his fathers, but words to punish those who disobeyed their orders by fines and that ring clear in my mind as I look about me today: "If imprisonment? Did you know that the bill the Administrahistory teaches us anything it is that republics are short tion demanded that Congress pass provided that each perlived, and that all governments are but bubbles upon.the son employed at lower wages or higher hours than the great ocean of human history. America cries aloud today board's orders called for would constitute a separate offense for men with no selfish ambitions to serve, with knowledge, punishable by a fine of $500 or imprisonment for six with conviction, with courage, lest this America of ours, months? Did you know that under that bill, if enacted into the brightest dream that ever fired the enthusiasm of man, law, an employer of 500 men who violated a board order may soon become an unprofitable memory." could have been fined $50,000 or imprisoned for fifty years,

We found a group of such men in the United States Senate recently. And we have dire need to find mone and more of them in the problems that still face us, and in the days that are just before us.

So we are free, for the moment, from the Supreme Court change menace. Today business watches with tense interest the progress of the Wage and Hour Bill. Already the Senate has passed such a bill, considerably changed from the form in which the Administration ofrered it, but a grave piece of legislation nevertheless, creating a board and empowering that board to make and enforce laws that would give it life and death power over industry. The lower house wrestles as this is written with an effort to pass a bill different from the Senate Bill. What will happen, no man knoweth. The Senators and Congressmen from ihe South are fighting bitterly against the bill as a direct blow that would cripple the South, and sadly embarrass all industry.

Senator Pat Harriso", "; ;r":sippi, uttered the opinion of the employers of this nation when he said that one of his chief objections to the bill was because Madame Perkins would have something to do with it. Most employers would as soon have Joseph Stalin settle a labor dispute for them, as Miss Perkins. The anti-Perkins tide rises high in the country. But she stays, just the same.

It is certain that .n" ;*" "lu no.r, bilt will NOT be passed in anything like as drastic a form as the original Administration bill. But just to give you an idea of wbat it was they asked Congress to saddle us with, did you know or both? And that, don't forget Mr. Employer, was one of the "must" bills of the present session.

With an independen. ;n:-: Court, such a law could never have been constitutionalized. That was one great ru""on why the Supreme Court pack had to be defeated. Even with a much less drastic bill, there are many who doubt if the Supreme Court will permit Congress to make any such transfer of authority as would be given the proposed industry board. Because even the most modified form of the Law yet offered provides for a board of management with tremendous powers over industry.

But all well informed men believe that even the most modified form in which the bill has yet been offered would do untold damage to parts of the country, particularly the South, and that tremendous unemployment would immediately follow the enactment of such a law. In my own particular judgment, the day such a law went into effect, tens of thousands of small industries throughout the country would close shop for good. Even the old hard-shell Democratic Houston Post editorially declares its conviction that the passage of such a law would "bring on the worst headache the country has had since the tyrannical days of the NRA.'' rt is reported on arr" ul"a-""lnorr.r, and not denied so far as I have read, that the so-called Black-Connerly bill is in reality the Cohen-Corcoran bill, having been written for Mr. Roosevelt by the two brain-trusters now writing most of our proposed laws. Mr. Tommy Corcoran, according to The Saturday Evening Post, writes all Mr. Roosevelt's fireside chats-and admits it.

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