Press Release, Truman for Senator State Headquarters

Editors:- For release to morning papers of October 4 and after. TRUMAN-FOR-SENATOR STATE HEADQUARTERS William P. H?rvey Madison Hotel Publicity Director. Jefferson City, Missouri CARUTHERSVILLE, MO., Oct. :--Following ten-ninute talks at Camp- bell, Malden and New Madrid in the course of today, Judge Harry S. Truman of Independence, Denocratic nominee for United States Senator, in a speech here tonight, decried the attacks made on the New Denl as a species of dictatorship. He challenged any of his auditors to shou in any instance where the federal government, in the formulation of the NRA or the AAA, had attempted to dictate. AND if "The NRA was the creation of business men acting in concert after years of consideration. The government sat in at the birth of that - body merely as a referee. The AA had farm origin, with the govern- ment appearing in the same guise as at the NRA foundation. " With the foregoing statenents as a prenise, Truman detailed the beginning of each novement. The rudimentary idec of the NRA appenred twenty years ago, Truman said. The idea hnd gained hendwey in the administration of former President Coolidge. It received national attention at that time because the federal government vieved the nove- ment for business self-government with suspicion. It VOS believed that the various trade conferences being held merely sponsored "gentle- men's agreements" to circunvent the inti-nonopoly law, Trumon norrated. By the time former President Hoover was elected, local bodies of the United States Chamber of Commerce hod become interested in i move- ment of national breadth to stop bad business practices and low ethics, It was lehrned that self-government could not be achieved unless legal restrictions imposed by the federal trade act could be waived or held in abeyance. Under President Roosevelt, Truman shid, the more prominent among American business men engerly joined in with the Democratic national administration. The /President insisted on en end to child lebor, minimum wages, shorter hours of labor, collective wage bargaining and severel other points of less importance. Business was allowed to write the codes in conjunction with General Hugh S. Johnson, who had been* identified with "big business" all his business life. Monopoly restrictions were removed, leaving the way clenr for self-govermment of business by its lenders. Preservation Copy "Whatever is wrong with the NRA is the fault of business men them- selves, " Truman declared. "As head of it, General Johnson in no way hampered the working out of the codes, regardless of the freedon with which the monopoly sections of the trade act were set asice. "For the first time in history, the farmers, too, were allowed to write their own laws, not only in the AAA, but in other measures