If the Board was established to ascertain certain facts and then to apply certain rules and regulations prescribed by Congress whenever such facts were discovered it would be out of danger. But such a task is jo terrific one and when tackled näy be found impossible. The very form of the bill shows that the Administration are aware of the difficulties.
It seems to say in effect that Congress and the President cannot frame legislation to cover so complex and difficult: matter. They therefore propose that an ideal minimum standard be established—possibly a 40-hour week and a!40 cents an hour wage—to act as a rough objective. Then the whole matter will be turned over to a Board which if it is to be successful must be composed of men endowed with greater -gifts of brain and character than the President's advisors, who have found this selfsame job beyond them The President's labour proposals have been subjected to almost as much criticism as his Supreme Court proposals. Writers from Gen. Hugh Johnson, head of the old N.R.A. down have found fault with them. Miss
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