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Like sentinels at a munition plant in wartime, guards stood watch before the locked doors of the printing office at the Department of Commerce for 18 hours one day last week. Behind the doors political dynamite was in manufacture, the long-awaited report by Clarence Darrow and his special board on the operations of NRA as they affected the small industrialist and businessman was being mimeographed. Also being mimeographed under guard were the dissenting report of John F. Sinclair of Manhattan, newspaper financial columnist and member of the Darrow board, and the caustic retort of General Johnson...
...zero hour 150,000 words of controversy were dumped upon the public. Vitriolic bomb shells of recrimination burst in the camps of Johnson and Darrow while Sinclair's trench mortar added to the loud discord. By and large the U. S. took the bombardment without flinching...
Focus of the fight was: 1) a mass of detailed criticism of particular NRA codes from the Darrow artillery; 2) an equally detailed counter-volley from NRA's Counsel, Donald Richberg. Mr. Darrow was for a strong Leftward swing by NRA toward Socialism. General Johnson stoutly defended the patchwork job he had done for Capitalism. Mr. Sinclair engaged in a flanking fire upon the Darrow board's methods and conclusions. The gist of their viewpoints...
...Darrow: The choice is between monopoly sustained by government, which Is clearly the trend in the National Recovery Administration, and a planned economy, which demands socialized ownership and control, since only by collective ownership can the inevitable conflict of separately owned units for the market be eliminated in favor of planned production. There is no hope for the small businessman or for complete recovery in America in enforced restriction upon production for the purpose of maintaining higher prices. The hope for the American people . . . lies in the planned use of America's resources following socialization...
Typical of the controversy over a dozen codes on which the Darrow board heard complaints of "the little fellow'' was that concerning the cinema industry...