Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1933-07-18
Complaints Report
ed of FavOritism to
NOn-UniOn Men.
NEW FORCE IS PUT
IN DRIVE FOR CODES
President Leaves Task on
Blanket Agreement
to Advisers.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
William Green, president Of the
American Federation of Labor,
said today he planned to demand
Investigations of any discharges
Of employees under the shorter
work week in industry.
Green said a number of In
stances had been called to his at
tention where workers had lost
jobs with application of a shorter
week. He told newspaper men
this was the opposite intention Of
industrial codes which are in
tended to spread employment.
Il will insist upon investigations Of
such cases coming to my attention"
Green said.
Complaints Received.
The federation chief also said q num-
Der Of complaints were being received
that employers were favorIng non-union
as opposed to union labor and that
where discharges were taking place, the
union men were going. He said this
situation also should be aired thorough
ly before a code Is granted any indus
try.
Meanwhile, the Recovery Admins
tratlon put new force into the drive
Tor more agreements by industries to
raise wages and cut working hours i'm
medlately without waiting for Govern
IN, fhnfr l.
competition"
Various groups on the verge Of sub
hitting these codes, the formal agree.
ments for self-goveInment of industry
under Federal supervision, were beinf
pushed to act quickly.
There was evidence that Hugh 8.
Johnson, the administrator, and his
aides were seeking preliminary wage
raising agreements in retail lines par.
tlcularly, so as to get some Of the ind.
mediate benefits of the recovery move.
ment to store and ofice workers a
well as factory employees.
Blanket Code Before Counsl.
A general call to all business and IN.
dustry to join the movement also vas
being worked out, but before acted
upon 1t was to be discussed fully BY
the Presidents Recovery Council. the
group Of directors for the Governments
new emergency organizations which
meets at the White House In place Of
the regular cabinet,
Virtually complete were plans to
throw behind such general call Q
campaign to stir public opinion by
Liberty bond drive methods. The re-
suit said to be hoped for Is that people
would do their trading with firms join-
ing In the recovery movement.
Sohdifled opposition among Johnson's
labor advisers showed itself against the
company union provisions of the steel
mdustry's code, which Is to be taken
up IN hearings possibly within q week,
with indications pointing strongly to
their ultimate rejection.
Johnson said he has approved nothing
IN advance Of hearings on the steel
code, but the labor men regard the
company union plan as definitely null
lry1ng the provisions of the industrial
control law giving employees the right to
unlonlze any way they wish without
interference from mill MANAGEMENT.
Green has criticized the labor pro-
visions proposed by the steel industry
Tor containing open shop language.
Somewhat similar language has been
approved tentatively by coal operators.
Prohibits Coercion"
The section Of the mems wear group
known as the National Recovery Asso-
citation Of Clothing Manufacturers has
recommended in its code a language
TO prohibit coercion" of open shop en-
ployes by union agents
sidney Hillman. president Of the
Amalgamated Clothing Workers of
America, who elaborated in the prepa-
ration OF code by the Clothing Manu-
facturers' Association. another mems
wear group, said today well look into"
the recovery associations labor plan.
Inc recovery administration was
sWamped today with inquiries for In
depreciation OF the changed labor con-
oltlons IN the cotton textile code which
went into effect yesterday.
PRESIDENT Roosevelt originally re-
CURED that every worker receiving more
than the old minimum be given a raise
proportionate to that of the bottom
men when they were lifted to $l2 and
S13.
Change Is Obtained.
The industry. however, pointed out
this would give unbalanced results since
the old minimums ranged from Sc to
$40 or even $11 in different mills, and
that there was great spread between
various plants in the proportion Of en-
ployes at minimum levels. It obtained
from the President change providing
that no worker be paid less on the. 40
hour schedule than he received for
merly, but that increases for all levels
be worked out by the industry itself.
Administrators said this was inter-
preted not to require that every worker
be given a proportionate raise. Actual
application is left to the mills them
selves under supervision of the indus
try's Steering Committee, which win
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