Abstract

Crisis in the NRA

The industrial-recovery program has arrived at a crisis, and the outcome probably will determine its ultimate fate. Many diverse factors, some strange and others familiar, conspired to produce the present grave situation. A few are mentioned here without attempting to list them in the order of their importance—the determination of great employers to prevent, by means legal or illegal, the unionization of their employees, Bill Green's inability to think of the NRA as anything except a weapon to promote the fortunes of the American Federation of Labor, the gouging practiced by manufacturers to whom their codes are mere licenses to steal, the growing boldness of financial interests bent on wrecking the administration, and the optimistic faith that the profit motive can be reconciled with fair dealing.