In another speech to-day, Mr. Robert H, Jackson. Assistant Attorney General, accused "big business" of going on strike against the Government in an effort "to liquidate the New Deal."
He also alleged it was seizing the current recession as a cudgel to whack a concession out of the Government.
The Government recovery programme, Mr. Jackson added, had restored profits to business. and the only criticism of the New Deal economic programme was that it did not do enough to guard recovery from the raids of the monopolist, Meanwhile, the attack on monopolies begun by Mr. Jackson received support from Mr. Daniel C. Roper, Secretary of Commerce, and Mr. Homer Cummings Attorney General.
"There were good and bad monopolies," declared Mr. Roper, "and they concerned good business itself as well as consumers and the Government, and they must be cure The existing Anti-Trust Law was inadequate, Mr. Cummings stated, and additional appropriations were needed to enable the Department of Justice to fight monopolistic practices.—Reuter.
San Francisco, Dec, 29.
The American transport ship Chaumont will sail from here January 5 with 600 soldiers to replace a portion of- United States troops stationed at vations points in the Far East, The-. Chaumont also wilt carry Cmdr. James.T. Alexander, new Governor of Guam.—United Press.
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