The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-12-21
NEW DEAL IS
GIVEN PUSH
BY ROOSEVELT
President Moves to Carry
Recovery Drive Over
Slump.
NEW COUNCIL FORMED
Chief Anxious to Complete
Codes, CentraIize
Activities.
BY HERBERT LITTLE
Times Special Writer

WASHINGTON, Dec. 21.-Presi-
dent Roosevelt speeded up the new
deal today in an effort to carry his
gigantic recovery experiment over
the midwinter slump.
With employment figures in
manufacturing showing more than
the seasonal November drop, despite
the stabilizing effect of codes, plans
are under way to centralize local
emergency activities to complete
codification of industry, and to
strengthen the collective bargaining
guarantee of the recovery act.
Secretary of Labor Frances Per-
kins' monthly employment report
showed 3.5 per cent drop in work.
ers and 81 per cent loss in pay rolls.
However, she estimates that $500, =
900 more industrial workers had
jobs in November than in March.
This figure added to the 1000 900
employed on civil works cuts by one
half the total of last winters job
less.
The newly National Emer-
gency Council, following it's first
meeting with the President, moved
through its acting director, Frank
Walker, to appoint forty-eight state
NEG directors who will take over
local administration of emergency
activities, and set up local commit
tees to aid and inform citizens in
the manifold efforts of the govern
ment to stop physical and financial
distress.
Is More Codes Is Goal
President Roosevelt in an eXecu-
tive order, however, stayed for a
month his previous order abOliShing
all volunteer field agencies, includ-
ing NRA, relief, and farm relief
boards. The new NEG organization
will take over this work on Jan. 16.
NRA officials went to work mean
while to attain the Jan. l goal set
by Administrator Hugh S. Johnson
completion of seventy-five more
major codes. which will mean per-
manent codification of IS per cent
of all industry.
Uncoded industries will continue
under Blue Eagle agreements which
are being extended by Presidential
order.
Construction, rubber tire, print
ing and newspaper codes are among
the major ones which General
johnson hopes to complete by the
end of next week Tire manufac-
turers agreed on a code after long
session at NRA yesterday.
The major food codes transferred
from the Agriculture Adjustment
Administration may be completed
also, although some protest is eX"
pected against General JohnsonS
intention of allowing the retail gro
Gerry stores, as we'll as the already
coded retailers and druggists, a
price markup-over and above &C
tual cost of goods-to pay for store
labor.
Utility Code Delayed
Aluminium and utility codes ap-
parently will be put over until next
year.
General Johnson says he Is well
pleased with NRA's progress on
1.-The toughest job ever" He eX-
poets little criticism from congress.
Meanwhile, the national labor
boards hand has been strengthened
powerfully by Presidential executive
order, ratifying its power to act on
collective bargaining disputes aris-
ing either from Blue Eagle agree
ments or permanent codes.
This order specifically approved
past acts of the board, strengthen
ing it's position in the federal suit
which Attorney General Homer S.
Cummings is planning to bring
against the Weirton Steel Company.
The labor board, however, will not
eliminate the necessity for legisla-
ton to make it a permanent body
with more clearly defined powers,
oppOrSirO RI hoard Officials