Evening star., 1933-07-19
STUDIES PROGRESS
ON BLANKET CODE
Common Ground Sought at
Farley Today, With Early
Results Indicated.
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standard. At present he is in London
with the American delegation to the
world Economic Conference.
New codes continue to arrive at john
sons already burdened Office, one today
being for 40-hour week and Sl3
minimum weekly wage in the rayon and
synthetic wool producing industry.
Hearing Set for July q.
Administrator johnson set July 27
for start of hearings on the rayon
agreement. said to represent 30 per cent
of the industry. Previously code was
submitted by the rayon weavers. This
prohibits employment of persons under
Is years of age.
In specifying the maximum hours,
exception is made in cases OF emer-
gencies. Also apprentices are exempted
from the minimum wage limitation
The code would be effective IA days
after approval bv the President
Opposition within the shipbuilding
industry to the minimum wage rate
provision of the code was expressed at
the public hearing on the agreement.
Homer L. Ferguson. president Of the
Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry
Dock Co. OF Newport News. Va, said
he thought 80 cents would be fair
minimum" for Southern yards.
II the 35-cent minimum is made to
prevail in the South. he said. 1t would
tend to put out of work the weak
Southern yards" adding the 35-cent
rate would be almost double the present
scale. Previously prediction that the
Nays building program would result
in employment Is per cent above the
peak Of the last 10 years in the ship
building industry was made by H. Ger
rish Smith. president Of the National
Council Of American ShipbuilderS.
Bulk Goes 10 Labor.
He corroborated previous statements
by naval officials and members of Con-
gress that IS per cent Of Shipbuilding
costs went to labor, either directly or
indirectly, and that nearly every State
benefited through supplying materials
At the electrical hearing. j. A. Tritle
president of the National Electrical
Manufacturers Association. said the
industry realizes thoroughly the adyis-
ability of co-ordinated efforts between
Government and industry in order that
we NAV have prosperity again III full
measure by the stabilization OF indus
try"
Collens declared the industry's VOL
per cent of the 1929 record. but that
employment had been spread 50 that
about so per cent Of the 1929 workers
were given employment.
The June business was about 40 Der
cent Of the 1929 level" Collens said.
Since President RooSevelts admins
tration the improvement of employment
in our industry has been about 20 per
cent
1T is thought this code will add 25 600
employees for the lighter branches of
the industry" Collens added
Overtime For Peak Period.
we estimate that a so per cent in
crease over the June business would
equal so per cent Of the 1929 level,
but under this code would return the
full 1929 employment
He said the division Of the industry
which produces the heavier products
would have to depend upon an extern
sion in other industries to get more
employees back to work because it now
was operating below a 36-hour level.
George w. Mason of Detroit. presi-
dent of the Kelvinator Corporation,
testified a provision for l44 additional
hours year of overtime work was in
serted in the code to meet the seasonal
anu pCdh utIIldIOS VI ulsiIICSSCo dllicu
with the electrical industry.
The electrical refrigerator manufac-
turers. he said, found their peak de-
mand in April. May and June. Owing
to the bulk OF their product, he said
they found 1t impossible to spread their
peak production over the rest Of the
year because of lack Of warehouse
space.
An example Of the temporary type of
understanding sought by Gen. johnson
was supplied today by the National As
sociation Of Hosiery Manufacturers.
They agreed with recovery officials on
petition asking Mr.. Roosevelt for all ex-
ecutive order putting into effect next
Monday minimum wages and maximum
working hours.
The hosiery men have not completed
their entire code. but they harmoniZed
the proposed wages and working hours
with those in effect i'll the textile in
dustry asking i0-hour work week,
and 80-hour machine week, Sl2
Southern and sl3 Northern weekly
minimum
At a press conference late yesterday
johnson reiterated that his unit was
working to get benefits of the recovery
act for all groups OF workers, the office
and store employees as well as laborerS.
Asked about the code submitted by
the steel industry, which carries COM
pany union provision. he said f1atly that
if this Were found to nullify or alter the
recovery laws guarantee of laborS right
to organize as it saw fit, the clause
would not stay in.
mo man." he said, ''can put into a
code anything that qualities the statute"