The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-07-22
LEADERS Wire
ACCEPTANCES
TO ROOSEVELT
Johnson Sees Possibility
OF Putting 100000,
Back To Work
PRESIDENT PLANS
TALK TO COUNTRY
By THOMAS L. STOKES
United Press Staff Correspondent


United Press Staff Correspondent
WASHINGTON, July %. CUP
Returns today indicated over
whelming acceptance by Ameri-
can industry of President Roose-
velt's bold plan to lift buying
power through an universal agree
ment on higher wages and shorter
hours.
The presidents qualification at
the cooperative spirit shown by
industry was expressed at the
White House. Telegraph boys
tumbled over one another bearing
messages of approval to the Of
fee of General Hugh S. Johnson,
national recovery administrator.
kilograms came at the rate Of six
a minute.
Johnson said today there is
possibility of putting 100000
people back to work through the
recovery program.
Because of the magnitude Of
his task, he explained he would
have to leave largely to industry
the classification of labor under
the voluntary agreement scheme.
"When I have squawk I'll
handle it," he said.
Among large business and in
dustrial concerns which advised
Johnson of their hearty co-opera-
ton were Sears, Roebuck G. Co.,
U. S. Independent Telephone As
ISOLATION, Northwestern Iron and
Metal Co., Florsheim Shoe, Allied
Association of Motion Picture
Producers and Exhibitors. and To-
peka, Kans., food dealers. The
Atlantic & Pacific chain of $4,000
stores previously haa pledged their
support.
President Roosevelt will deliver
a message to the country between
$50 and 10 p. m. next Monday,
to start off a great patriotic CAM
paign in which every civic, social
and welfare organization has been
enlisted. Johnson, emphasizing to-
day that every employer is includ-
ed, marshalled industrial and bust
ness forces through kilograms to
presidents of chambers Of COM
merce in every city of over 10000
in the country. He asked them to
rally all organizations in their ter
ritory.
The crusading Governor Clifford
Pinchot of Pennsylvania wa;
among the first to offer his serv-
ices. An experienced campaigner,
he announced his readiness for a
appeal to the industries
which make his state a beehive of
Simultaneously from Pittsburgh
came announcement of a ID per
cent salary increase for "white
collar" workers of the Carnegie
Steel company, retroactive to July
16, and benefting more than L.
600 employees. This was regarded
as the beginning of a movement
which would spread 10 Juliet SUI
salaries of the United States
Steel Corporation and to other
great industries.
President Roosevelt. recovered
from a slight indisposition and
looking fit and we'll, smiled broad
ly at these evidences that the
great march had begun.
He signed an executive order
blanketing the textile finishing and
underwear industries under the
cotton textile code already APP
proved, another advance. The tex
tile finishing industry fixed its
wages at $13 in the
South and $14 in the North, one
dollar higher than the cotton tex
tile scale.
President Roosevelt is very OPP
timistic over reports he has re-
ceived showing remarkable COOP
Grafton by industry in his recov-
cry program. Without single
exception, it was said, industry is
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