The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-07-21
F. R. APPROVES
BLANKET CODE
FOR INDUSTRY
Asks u. S. Business to
Adopt Uniform Wages
and Hours
WHITE COLLAR MEN
TO WORK 40 HOURS

WASHINGTON, July 81. (UP)
President Roosevelt today called
upon every employer in the United
States to raise wages and create
employment by shortening work.
ing hours.
His urgent appeal launched an
emergency unemployment drive
such as never before has been I'M
dertaken in this or any other
country.
Calling for united action" the
president asked all employers to
subscribe to a blanket code giving
white-collar workers a 40-hour
week and a $12-S15 minimum
wage, and industrial labor a 35-
hour week with a minimum wage
of 40 cents an hour.
Voluntary cooperation was the
basis of this unprecedented social
and economic experiment, this
"mass attack on depression"
The emergency campaign in
tends putting the industrial re-
covery program in full swing
without waiting for approval of
industrial codes. Sections of the
national industrial recovery act
were invoked as authorization.
Highlights of the voluntary
agreements to which all employ
ers are asked to subscribe are:
/. The agreements would be-
come effective August 81.
9. Child labor is banned with
certain exceptions.
3. Clerical. or "white-collar"
workers will be limited to 40
hour week, with a minimum pay
of SIS in cities Of 100000 or
more; $14.50 in cities Of between
100000 and 100000 population;
$l4 in cities between $500 and
100000, and 20 per cent wage
increases in towns of less than g.
500 provided this does not require
more than $12 a week.
4. Factory or mechanical work.
ers limited to 35 hours per week
until December 81, with the right
to work 40 hours per week for
any six weeks within this period.
No worker shall be employed more
than eight hours in any one day.
Forty cents an hour shall be the
minimum wage unless scale low
err than that was in effect July
Is, 1929, and in no case shall less
than 30 cents an hour be paid.
S. Prices must not be increased
over the July l price except where
made necessary by increased costs
or taxes.
6. Flexibility is provided to
avoid working hardships in par
ticular cases where limitations on
hours of skilled labor would re-
duce production, but time and
one-third must be paid for all
work in excess Of the maximum
hours.
7. The voluntary agreement
will cease to apply to any indus
try upon approval by the presi-
dent of it's code of fair COMPETE
ton.
8. September 1 is fixed as dead
line for the submission of indi-
vidual industrial codes. The pres
ident will fix dates for hearings
arbitrarily unless industries are
heard from by that time.
Postoffices throughout the coun-
, try will be used to get the agree
| ments before every one of the
country's more than 100000
employers. Every employer will
receive a form by July 81.
The MIRA publicity department,
headed by Charles F. Horner Of
Liberty Loan fame, swung into
action with a campaign of educa-
ton designed to carry the NRA
gospel to every city, hamlet and
crossroads in the country. This
work. through churches, clubs,
the radio and poster displays will
be carried on intensively through
out the summer and fall.
Employers supporting the presi-