Johnson. from the position of National Recovery Administrator will come as no surprise to those who have watched the progress of the movement with any degree of inter= est. From the commencement it apparent that*whoever was entrusted with the carrying out of the Pres Aent's far-reaching scheme would Ineur a large amount of unpopularity and strenuous opposition, for only by the most drastic action" could the enormous changes of industrial policy involved be effected. "From the commencement "General Johnson met with, very considerable opposition. for example in his struggle with Mr. Henry Ford. Hie methods were nearly at, all times somewhat drastic. He was "severely criticised in the Darrow report, and his latest quarrel with Miss. Frances Perkins, 1s indleative not only perhaps of the character of the man, but also of the immense dimculties he or anyone else his position would have had. to encounter. Talking. as long a view of the matter as possible, it is probably quite true, as he writes in his that the time superfluous in his position, and that matiers, having
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