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Last week's events made a Roman holiday for cartoonists. General Johnson had invited every one with a kick against NRA codes to come to Washington and make it. One cartoonist portrayed the General with swelling bosom standing before the huge and hungry lion of Public Opinion while a placard announced "General Johnson will positively put his head in the Lion's mouth." Another had the General standing back to back with a jackass ("Great American Kicker"), and urging "Go on kick, I dare ya to!" A third had the embattled General surrounded with snowballs, brickbats and dead...
...filled. Only exception to this eagerness to complain was in Forum No. 3 (trade practices). The United States Patriotic Society Inc. ran public notices in the Press saying that it would be glad to represent complainers at the meeting, free of charge. Meantime all code hearings were canceled by NRA for the duration of the battle...
...planned more serious business: to get all code authorities together to try to iron out code difficulties and differences. Important question at that meeting will be whether hours of work under codes can be still further reduced to cut into unemployment. Last week the General claimed that the NRA had made 3,000,000 jobs. However, the General admitted that there are now 9,000,000 unemployed to which some 3,000,000 will soon be added by Civil Works discharges...
...change of policy has been dictated primarily by a desire to find an outlet for America's surplus of farm products. But it also is timed to coincide with the largest gathering of business in that has assembled here in conviction with NRA since it was established...
Perhaps the NRA can weed out child labour, now that adult labour is the issue. Perhaps it can weed out unfair competition, when competition is the issue. Perhaps it can give labour an advisory power, when labour ownership and control is the issue. But anyone who knows the history of the Labour Party in England and the Social Democrats in Germany will give very small odds that it can accomplish even these things, in the face of a capitalist emergency which cannot afford the concessions which it might have afforded in its healthier days...