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With heavy hearts and dire foreboding the Administration looks ahead to the meeting of Congress next January, realizing that the opening of the grousing season cannot be long delayed. Already keen ears in Washington detect the cocking of shotguns all over the country, a sound unpleasing to the natives. Henry Ford has rallied about him a brave band of those who, for various reasons fear the implications of enforced codes. The farm bloc, temporarily placated by the burnt offering of a devaluated dollar, can be expected to provide a great deal of clamor and possibly some force if the latest...
Aside from this quibbling, Mr. Wells' latest book is undoubtedly the best that he has produced in many years. It is a resume of the most dire forecasts and the brightest predictions for the future. It shows the striking power of imagination absent from such night-mares as "The Bulpington of Blup," and the ideas presented in it are worthy of more than dinner-table consideration. It is absurd to take some portions of it seriously as it is foolish to take others lightly. To appraise it absolutely is impossible till the future reveals its secrets; it is an interesting...
Just why "persons seeking domestic employment are invariably in dire circumstances" is puzzling in the extreme. High wages have been the rule, rather than the exception, for many years...
...details would fill a good-sized volume, but when it has been conceded that the worker is at a disadvantage and not always able to strike a fair bargain, hence "collective bargaining," why has no legislation been enacted which will protect persons seeking domestic employment who invariably are in dire circumstances and with no one to depend upon, when there are so many employers willing to take advantage of the situation...
...Helper Earl Dean Howard labored with the badly disorganized clothing industry (which was favored last week by a strike of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers) until he was felled by an acute heart attack. Helper Donald R. Richberg, counsel of the Recovery Administration, was busy stimulating merchants in Manhattan with dire prophecies: "If this adventure should fail . . . it will be the failure of an industrial system. . . . There is only the choice presented between private and public election of the directors of industry. . . . If they fumble their great opportunity, they may suddenly find it gone forever...