ABSTRACT
The capitalist and business organizations, proving themselves stronger than the organizations of labor and agriculture, fell upon these boards and commissions, first to prevent them from controlling business and, second, to use them against organized labor and agriculture. At the same time certain of the boards were given judicial functions by Congress, permitting them to absolve capitalist combinations and to prosecute organizations of labor, to compel the enforcement of labor contracts to satisfy employers, and to furnish new grounds for judicial injunctions. These bodies had been originally instituted to control unfair profits and prices, but an extraordinary impression was deliberately created in the public mind that profits and prices could not be controlled without the compulsory fixing of wages. Secretary Hoover, for example, has assumed that compulsory fixing of wages always accompanies every government intervention in industry and that any intervention whatever precludes industrial self-government. Political government seeks to retain all power and all functions.
