Evening star., 1933-08-16
CODE S|GNERSFA
INQUIRY ON Jobs
Women, Estimated to Mum
ber 1000, Visit Homes
to Enlist Support.

| Washington employers who have
signed the N. R. A. pledge and are dis
playing the Blue Eagle are now being
queried by the Presidents Emergency
Unemployment Campaign Committee
o. NE District to determine just how
earnestly they are complying with the
provisions for their respective fields.
The local campaign committee swung
Into action on this task this morning
and the work will be pushed until every
Blue Eagle Wearer in the District has
been -~ltacted, Thomas P. Littlepage,
chairman, said today.
Meanwhile, the first of the woman
workers who will seek to ally every
household in the Capital as an active
N. R. A. consumer took the field yester-
day in their doorto-door campaign It
is estimated that before night 1000
women will be making personal calls
upon the housewives of Washington
urging them to sign consumer pledge
cards. Miss Eta Taggart, as lieutenant
! general, is directing this phase of the
work in cooperation with James G.
Yaden
In outlining his plans for action
Llttlepage said that not only will a
check be made on the Blue Eagle dis
players, but that every employer who
fails to show the emblem will be
pressed" to sign the pledge.
Close Investigation Planned.
Littlepage said each suspected vio-
lation of the Blue Eagle pledge would
be Investigated closely and the offender
given every opportunity to rectify the
wrong. Persistence in the offense
however. the chairman said. would
bring about the reporting of the Of
fender to N. R. A. headquarters and
publication of the offenders name and
business
If the offender engages in interstate
commerce, Littlepage said, he will be
prosecuted under the provisions of the
national recovery act If his business
is solely local" then the offender would
be deprived of the support of the popu-
lation of consumers who will have
pledged themselves to support the
Blue Eagle employers,
With respect to employers who have
not yet placed Blue Eagles on their
establishments, Littkpage said every ef-
fort will be made to get them to sign
the code agreement first and permit
them to file frank explanation of why
participation in the provisions of the
code would work more harm than
good"
Show Good Intention"
The signing of the pledge, the chair
man explained would show the en-
ployer to be of good intention" and
would keep him off the list of non
co-operators with the unemployment
campaign. Meanwhile, such an employ
er would not be entitled to display the
Blue Eagle, but he would have the Gov
ernment's pledge that he will be given
a sympathetic and fair hearing of his
case and such fairness would be ac-
corded him by the District of Columbia
/ committee, Littlepage said
In order to facilitate work of the
committee Littlepage said, the District
is being divided into precincts. In
each of these subdivisions lieutenant
will be in charge and a corps of work
ers will operate under him. In this
way. he said, the whole city can be
covered efficiently and completely.
While the District of Columbia Emer-
gency Re-employment Campaign Com
mittee was pushing its work. the num-
Der Of employers taking out the Blue
Eagle here was mounting Shortly be-
fore noon the total number of District
| employers to get the Eagle was 1918
Of these 116 got their Eagles this
morning. while 1907 got the Eagle yes
terday. Varying estimates place the
number of Washington employers
eligible to apply for and receive the
Blue Eagle at between 5000 and 10000