The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-06-20
CONSUMERS TO
TAKE PART IN
REVIVAL DRIVE
Public Will Be Represented
on Board With Labor
and Capital.
JOHNSON NAMES AIDS
Check Will Be Placed on
EagernesS to Hike Pay
and Prices.
BY MAX STERN
Times Special Writer

WASHINGTON, June 20.-The
consuming public is to have a voice
in administration of the national
industrial recovery act, 1t was
learned today, as General Hugh S.
johnson set in motion the great res
toration machinery by announcing
the chief members of his cabinet"
and advisory boards.
Fears that the consumers were TO
be left to the mercies of capital and
labor we're set more or less at rest
by official announcement of board
known as the consumers advisory
board" to represent the buying
public.
The board, not yet named, is to
have equal footing with industry and
labor advisory boards and four
others yet to be created.
Although the new act forbids
monopolies, some senators fear that
labor and capital in their eagerness
to raise prices and wages will forget
the consumers. Senator Black
Dem, Ala prophesied that the
net congress will find it necessary
to amend the act to prevent
profiteering.
Able Aids Named
In announcing his personnel,
General Johnson also indicated a
determination on the part of the
administration to effect an equal
balance between labor and capital.
His two advisors for labor and in
dustry are Edward F. McGrady and
Dudley Gates. Mr.. McGrady is
one of the most intelligent and ag-
gresSive labor leaders in the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor. AS its
legislative representative for years
he has gained a reputation as lib
eral. He was slated to become as
sistant secretary of labor under Miss
Perkins.
Gates is a University of California
graduate, banker, and insurance
man, an associate of General john
sons in the Moline Plow Company
and regarded as one Of the more en-
lightened industrialists of the
younger school.
AS chief of the legal division
General Johnson has chosen Don
aid Richberg, counsel for the rail
brotherhoodS and a labor states
man of rare ability. Chief of the
research and planning division is
DR.. Alexander Sachs, who is neither
of labor or industry, but of the
finance group. He is economist and
director of the Lehman Corporation
of New York.
Wclman Heads Board
Heading the labor advisory board
as named by Secretary Perkins, is
DR.. Leo Wolman of Columbia. AS
former professor at Johns Hopkins
Michigan and Harvard, DR.. Wolman
has come to be recognized as one
of the nations outstanding labor
economists.
Other members of this board are
John P. Frey, one of the more pro-
greSSive A. F. of L. leaders and head
of the metal trades department
Joseph Franklin, boilermakers' pres
ident; President Green of the A. F
of L.; Sidney Hillman, president OF
the Amalgamated Clothing Work
ers; Father Francis Haas, of the
Catholic Welfare Council, active for
years as a campaigner for labor
legislation in Wisconsin and Wash
irgton; Rose Schneiderman, secre-
tary Of the Women's Trade Union
League. Two others are to be
named to this impressive group.
Swope to Help
Members of the industrial advis-
DRY board, as named by Secretary
Roper include several of the more
progressive industrialists. The
board includes Gerald Swope, head
of General Electric and author of
the Swope plan for economic plan
ming; Walter Teagle, chairman OF
Standard Oil of New Jersey; Austin
Finch. southern chair manufacturer
and the Southern Manufacturers
Association representative; Edward
N. Hurley, Chicago; Louis KRISTEN
of William Filene'S Sons, ms, Bos-
ton. William i Vereen of Georgia