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Last week its onetime Adminstrator got down to NRA proper in the first of a series of seven articles titled "The Blue Eagle from Egg to Earth." His thesis: "I think that NRA has been put to sleep, that the Codes are being allowed to languish, that the Blue Eagle, without which it cannot live, is dying, that the principles on which the whole plan proceeded are being ignored, and, worst of all, that control of its policies is passing to people who opposed them from the beginning...
...Give Mr. Roosevelt power to extend the life of emergency agencies such as the PWA and NRA as was sought by the administration...
...NRA in the United States is ineffective in solving the domestic situation because it only aids separate industries, while it has not increased the demand for labor or raised the standard of living...
...wracking their brains for ways to hold their markets. In fact, to most manufacturers guaranteed prices promise heaven on earth so long as the public does not find such prices a barrier to buying. Hence man by man, hour by hour, Business rose to argue and protest against what NRA proposed. The substance of the argument was put on its highest plane by George A. Sloan, head of the Cotton Textile Code Authority: ''Maximum hours and minimum wage provisions, useful and necessary as they are in themselves, do not prevent price demoralization. While putting the units...
...partnership of industry with Government which was invoked by the President were terminated (as we believe it will not be), then the spirit of cooperation, which is one of the best fruits of the NRA equipment, could not survive...