The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-07-26
Business Men Of
 City In Assembly
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one calling for a minimum of $12 a week and a 4S-hour week for store employees; another calling for a minimum of $12 for 40 hours and third of $14 for 52 hours The problem, he stated, is, one for the merchants to iron out. The | government cannot come in and study everybody's troubles, he added. MT Paine pointed out how the president closed up all the banks and then told them to open up if they could. He described how he took drastic steps towards the factories, too. Now he is letting other lines of business work out their problems and then calling upon them to join in a national code, he stated.
 The president, he explained, has decided to let public opinion be the | boss of everything. If the business | and cooperate then 1t will be up to the public to take the proper steps to punish the slackers.
 "Get aboard" was the cry of MT Paine. Discussing the question of constitutionality, MT Paine point ed out that when the question of tVoO Nab hh 6k uioSuSoCA AhAOA HI ally the legality was doubted. However, President Roosevelt came in with his recovery act and then told the employers of the na- tfon to go ahead. The president, he added, does not claim the plan is perfect. neither does he know where it will ultimately end. New ertheless 1t is good plan and one needed in this emergency.
 Those who do not get in Under the wire" he. stated. will have to suffer the consequences of public opinion, Mir Paine declared, in pointing out that in his opinion President Roosevelt is perfectly right in what he is doing in this emergency. He urged all merchants to put an extra payroll in their books and employ somebody. While it will come out of the merchants pockets now, he said, it will come back in the long run. Let's stake the country this much," he urged. MT Paine explained that all bus- mess men can. "get aboard" now, adopt code and then protest the question of. say, a SIP minimum and a 48-hour week. He said that the local merchants should have their code adopted by next Tues day, leaving them the whole month of August. then, to work out any protest that they may have.
 The possibility of fixing uniform hours of opening and closing, of cutting out evening work. such as on Saturday or of adopting a "staggcr plan" for employees were touched on briefly by Mir Paine. He explained that it is the desire of the national recovery administra- ton not to cut back beyond 52 hours week for business hours. This. therefore. would provide ex- tra work for somebody as the present employees would be work ing 40 to 48 hours Q week, IS the case may be.
 The body was read q statement from the First National Stores to the effect that this chain system would conform to any code adopt cd locally. r. w. Beckett. speak, ing for the Watorbury's Independ- ent Grocers' association, stated that a 52-hour basis might work a hardship on confectionery stores and the like. He was followed by MT Nye who declared that what was needed immediately was a patriotic expression of approval" of the national plan. Ills idea was adopted in the form of a motion. E R. Stevenson declared that the recovery plan must succeed" He ampliied this by adding that it twill and must succeed" He urged lwhole-hearted cooperation.
 Albert Cantor explained that the