The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1933-07-10
WORKERS IN MILLS
NEXT MONDAY Will
HAVE new PROGRAM
Roosevelt 0kays AO.Hour Week
With Wages no Less Than
S12 or $13
ALL FIRMS MUST COMPLY
President Hits Ancient Afro.
city Of Child Labor in
Announcement

Washington, July 10.-(P)-Upwards
Of 100000 employees In cotton textile
mills next Monday will begin working
only 40 hours week instead of 48 to
so for no less than $l2 or $l3, against
So to SO.
That was assured when President
Roosevelt, with reservations and inter-
pretations, Sunday night approved
and promulgated the first work.
spreading, wage-raising code Of fair
competition completed under the ma
tional recovery act.
Approval of this agreement, off,
Gals said, would bring more from 9TH
err big industries in the attempt to re-
cover prosperity by what the president
calls "a partnership" between business
and the government.
The situation now Is this: A ma
jority of the cotton textile industry
has agreed upon minimum wages for
a part of their employees and the max
imum number Of hours they shall
work.
About % per cent of the industry,
officials reported, have not signed
that agreement. They will be grant,
ed hearings this week. If they do not
accept, then the government will be
ready to demand that they apply for
federal licenses to operate. These H.
censes will require compliance with
the agreement. which was made a law
by presidential PRONUNCIATION.
Unchanged In Essentials
The presidents notifications and
Qualifications of the code left It I'M
changed as to minimum wages and
maximum hours. Nor did they re-
move the bar against employment Of
children under 16 or the stipulation
that no cotton textile plant may oper-
ate its machines more than 80 hours
a week.
He did direct that the code should
apply to white-co office employees:
That the amounts by which higher
paid workers salaries now exceed
those of the lowest-paid shall b
maintained; that the industry shall
prepare a similar code for cleaners
and outside workers, now exempted:
that repair shop crews, engineers,
electricians and watching crews, II
employed more than 40 hours a week,
shall get time and a half for overtime.
Because this was the first such
agreement, and because conditions
are changing, the president made 1t
operative for only four months. At
the end Of that time, employers and
workers may be asked to accept mod
ifications or the plan may be extend
ed as is.
Hits Ancient Atrocity'
In his announcement Of approval,
the president remarked that after
years of fruitless effort" the ancient
atrocity" Of child labor has been
eliminated In this industry because
this law permits employers to do by
agreement that which none Of them
could do separately"
Il can think OF no greater achieve
ment OF cooperation. mutual under
standing and good WILL" he added.
1T would be unfair to omit word
Of commentator Of this great indus
try. It has proved itself the leader Of
a new thing in economics and govern
ment. That took faith and courage
and patriotism Of the highest order.
They have their reward in the result
they have achieved and the example
they have given"
This acceptance of the code came
from the white house only a short
time after the president finished a
weekend trip on the Potomac river.
Delay OF presidential action until
would have postponed effec-
tiveness Of the plan until July "a. But
the fact that Franklin D. Roosevelt"
was written across the order before
midnight made it operative July IT.
the second Monday after promulga-
ton.