Evening star., 1933-12-16
Administration Seeks to Hold
Gains Made for Re.
employment.
CONTINUED BLUE EAGLE
DISPLAY MAY BE BINDING
D. c. Cafe Is Among Ten More
Shops Deprived of Emblems.
Many Seek Restoration.
tcopyrisht. 1888. by Associated Press,

tCopyrfsht, 1888, by Associated Press)
N. r. AS Blue Eagle will continue
to fly after December 81 and a program
soon will be announced to extend the
Presidents Unemployment agreement
for the trades and industries which do
not have codes In effect on that day.
The Blue Eagle agreements were sent
out in August. Millions of business
men signed their names in a promise
to comply with the higher wage, short
er hours requirements until the last
day of the year, wnen the agreements
expire. They promised also to help
get their trades organized for code pur-
poses.
Today many of those business men
are under permanent codes. Thousands
more probably will be by the end of
the year. But there will remain a resi-
dunn Of uncoded industries, groups
with codes pending, but not approved.
or not even in formulation.
Ten More Taken Up.
The administration has no intention
of letting these slip away from the re-
employment rally for possible new
competitive reduction Of wages. Fur
ther, and despite the "chiseling" going
on, for which Blue Eagles now are be-
ing ordered down daily, officials insist
the emblem of cooperation has real
trade value.
Ten more Blue Eagles were ordered
taken up yesterday, among them the
insignia of the Idaho Cafe, 814 Sew
enth street, this city.
They cite as evidence two principal
recent occurrences. A bis candy store
chain was deprived of the Eagle for
paying mattresses hardly more than
half the required rate. 1t appealed for
reinstatement the same day, and later
agreed to pay back wages to all hanis
for a month. Before the Eagle was
ordered down from the store of a
"chiseler" in q small Eastern city, more
than 1000 persons signed q petition
asking that the merchant be disciplined.
Halt q dozen smaller merchants who
mad been deprived of the sign went to
great lengths to get it back again. -
The plan for continuance is not yet
clearly formed. The simplest method
is to proclaim, by regulation and public
announcement, that continued display
binds the employer to stick to the
agreement terms, either until his code
becomes effective or for a period fixed
by the President.
May Ask Resignature.
An appeal to all employers to con-
tinue, and to the public to keep buy
ing under the Blue Eagle" would ac-
company this.
Another idea being studied is for
distribution of new agreement blanks
to get signatures all over again.
Where code has been approved it
IS proposed that new Blue Eagle en-
blems be sent out, bearing the words,
member retail CODE" or whatever code
the displayer may belong to. Display Of
these would constitute voluntary sub
scription to the code on the part of the
employer using 1t, and would bind him
to compliance.
Meanwhile at the White House it was
indicated that Gen. Hugh S. johnson
would remain at his post for some time
to come. and the aggressive administra-
tor. himself, said he had too much work
stu ahead to quit any time soon.
Other Developments yesterday were:
William Green, American Federation
Of Labor president, said he was having
a chronological record of labor troubles
at the Edgewater, N. j., Ford plant as
sembled, together with afidavits, to
support before N. r. A. his charge that
Ford Is violator of the automobile
code.
johnson ordered a telegraphic poll
taken Of cash and carry and call and
delivery dry cleaning establishments,
chosen at random about the country, to
determine whether difference in prices
should be allowed between the two. He
said he doubted the need, but that fig
ures submitted by cleaners for and
against were 'the most inconsistent
have ever SEEN"
New Codes Approved.
johnson said "it is Of complete in
difference to me" whether the auto
mobile code was renewed at the end
OF the month with or without the much
disputed merit" clause. He added he
would not move to take the clause out
unless a new controversy is raised.
The new codes approved by President
Roosevelt were rubber manufacturers
Exclusive Of tires), millinery, hair
industry, valve and fittings manufac-
ture, polishing mop makers, metal tank
constructors, fur trapping contractors,
and stone finishing machinery and
equipment
Nine other employers were deprived
OF Eagles. They are: Helen Koenie's
Restaurant, Newport, KY; Campbell
Baking Co.. st. Cloud, MINI; Charles
town Towel Supply Co.. Charleston,
w. Va: Canton Restaurant, Cambridge.
Mass; the Margaret Inn, wichita.
Kans.: Sanford Cafe, Omaha, Nebr.;
Campus Inn, Baltimore; Why Not Eat
Cafe, Wichita, Kans.
In every case the working Of en-
ployes far In excess Of agreement hours
or considerable underpayment were
charged.
johnson declined to say what he
would do about Green's charges against
Ford until the record was before him.