New York, July 20—The minority leader of the Assembly of the State of New York, the estimable Perry B. Duryea, has addressed individually presidents of corporations, large and small, doing business in New York, asking their help in setting up priorities for legislative reform. Clearly the counterrevolution is at hand when an ambitious politician feels he can write letters to corporation presidents soliciting their advice without hazard to life and limb. Traditionally, in politics, corporation presidents are acknowledged by politicians only to denounce them, or to solicit campaign contributions from them. Mr. Duryea is onto the new line. Because unless they pass a constitutional amendment making it illegal to leave one state for the purpose of doing business in another state, mobile companies and the people who run them are going to react to economic pressures, and in these, Mr. Duryea points out ruefully, New York State excels.
He begins with a few direct statements. New Yorkers have been told “that job losses have been stemmed when, in fact, 162,000 private sector jobs have been lost in the past two years.”
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