Evening star., 1933-04-28
BILL MAY APPLY
TO NEWSPAPERS
Chairman Connery Predicts
3O.Hour Measure Also Will
Affect Periodicals.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
A prediction that the 30-hour work.
week bill when reported to the House
would include Newspapers and periodi-
Gals was made by Chairman Connery
today in the Labor Committees hear
ings on the measure.
He made this statement after Edward
F, Cassidge, representing the New York
Typographical Union and its 1900
printers, had demanded that news
papers and periodicals be included
among articles that would be banned
from interstate commerce unless their
workers were on a siX-hour day, five
day week basis.
We Fundamentally indorse the 30
hour bill as the only method that can
preserve the country from possible
serious disorded in the future" Cassidge
testified. but it should include news
papers and periodicals.
Attitude Unanimous.
IF my memory serves me right Con-
merry interposed, this committee unani-
mously has voted that they should not
be exempted and 1 see no reason why
we shot'd have changed our minds. If
I'm wrong, l hope some member will
correct me"
Nobody did.
Chairman Connery said the commit
tee by next Friday or before" will be-
Ncil IN, rtD
what to do with the Perkins plan for
Federal control of production, wages
and hours of work.
The committee will adjourn its hear
ings on this bill today until Monday"
said Connery. "and will finish them
by next Friday or before so We can
take action on its as speedily as pos
sible"
Connery said he would insist the
30-hour work week apply to imports
as well as domestic products, and that
he would seek to make it apply TO
domestic manufactures which are sold
within the States of origin. The bill
now covers only those moving in in
terstate commerce.
Representative Hartley, Republican.
of New Jersey. said the committee
would obtain this objective through
the raw materials shipped to such fac
tories across State lines.
This amendment, 1t was indicated,
would be drafted SO as to bar or heavily
tax raw materials shipped across State
lines to manufacturers who, doing busi-
ness only in one State, refuse to operate
on a 30-hour week basis.
Modification Sought.
At yesterdays hearing, threat Of an
uprising by wage earnerS, and de-
mand that industry be allowed to run
its own affairs, were put before the
committee in an effort to bring modif1-
cation of Secretary Perkins plan for
Federal control of wages, production
and hours of work
The threat was by Matthew Vol,
vice president Of the American Fedora
ton of Labor, who said that if male
workers withdrew their opposition to
minimum wage legislation. they may
we'll understand that they have again
become serfS, not under domination OF
employers as such. but to the Nation
Industry's demand for freedom to run
its own business came from Henry l.
Hartman. president of the Chamber OF
Commerce of the United States, repre-
Senting the 800 organizations that are
its members.
George H. Hull. jr, of New York,
appearing in opposition to the 30-hour
week bill declared the measure would
kill production and working hours; that
it would close some plants and curtail
operation of others.
The remedy Mr.. Hull proposed was
increased production. greater distribu-
ton of products and profits to the mass
of workers, and thereby greater con-
sumption of commodities of all kinds.
He proposed to the committee the
establishment by industry of an auxil-
larry medium of exchange. the produc-
ton warrant, which he insisted would
enable plants to operate and workers to
work and the people to have more Of
what they need and desire.
"A large flow of production means a