Evening star., 1933-08-20
ROOSEVELT PUSHES
3 CODES THROUGH
Signs Steel, Oil and Lumber
PactS in Dramatic Last
Minute Rush.
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prices, by which steel companies must
file list of base prices for their prod
ucts. each. price to become effective 10
days after filing.
The minimum wages ranged from
27 cents an hour for common labor
in Northern and Eastern plants.
Qualified acceptance Of the oil code
had been presented to Gen. johnson q
short time before it was signed. by ad-
vocates Of Federal pricefixing.
An independent faction under Jack
Blalock of Marshall, Tex, refused to
accept the code, basing its opposition
on the production control section which
1t felt gave the Government the power
to 20 inside State lines to regulate the
flow of oil.
The so-called major group of COM
panies opposed to price fixing advised
johnson through their spokesmen they
would accept the code as it stands.
All the factions expressed their views
in a final conference in JOhnson's Of
fee The administrator then formu-
lated a letter of transmittal to accom-
pany the code to Mr.. Roosevelt.
Signing of the lumber code, which
has been in the mill for weeks reaches
an industry that employees 100000
workers in normal times and has an
annual output of $4,000, ,oOO, 900. The
code is designed to put $4,000 more
men on the pay rolls of the lumber and
timber products industry and includes
production control and minimum price
provisions.
4O-HOur Week Fixed.
A 40-hour maximum work week Is
eSta bliShed, 48 hours at seasonal peaks,
and minimum wages range from %
cents TO 42l2 cents an hour, represent
ing in some instances a 100 per cent
increase
A clause which received President
Roosevelts special attention provides a
program of conservation of forest re-
sources in cooperation with the Secre-
tary of Agriculture.
An agency known as the Lumber
Code Authority. Inc" created to ad-
minister the agreement, is vested with
the task of production control and cost
protection
The Authority is to determine esti-
mates Of expected consumption, in
cluding exports, and is empowered to
establish ard from time to time revise
production quotas" for the various d.
visions.
President Roosevelt also approved
last night codes of fair competition for
the Photographic manufacturing and
fishing tackle industries.
Week Most Spectacular.
Nearing the end of the N. r. AS
most spectacular week, johnson drove
ahead throughout yesterday, bulWarked
by the break which brought steel within
the scope of the recovery program.
Declining all requests for appoint
ments, the administrator swung from
one confidential session to another.
First he conferred at a downtown hotel
with the committee of 54 set up by the
oil industry. Then he went to the In
terror Department to consult Secretary
IckeS, with whom he has differed some
what on the extent the Government
should go in controlling prices and pro-
duction.
From there he returned to his Office.
met Harry F. Sinclair an advocate of
stringent price regulation, and moved
on TO the White House.
Another move by johnson yesterday
to block evasions of agreements signed
with President Roosevelt by employers
was aimed at the restaurant industry.
The administration cited complaints
that charging employees for meals was
not common among restaurants before
the recovery act was passed, but that
now it was being done to offset the
higher wages.
Calls Move Subterfuge.
This being So" a statement said,
I'VE consider it an effort to evade the
minimum wage provisions and subter-
fuge to frustrate the spirit and intent
of the Presidents Unemployment agree
ment for a restaurant operator who had
not charged his employees for meals
prior to June l6, 1888, to charge for
them now"
Meanwhile. johnson approved substi-
tute presidential agreements for the
American stockyards, the steel ware
house and the transit industries.
A code was filed with the Admins
tration by the United States Independ-
ent Telephone Association which CLASH
fled the industry into six groups.
Glass l included exchanges serving
more than 100000 company-owned
telephones: class 2, exchanges serving
from $4,000 to 100000; class 3, $4,000
to $4,000; class f. from $500 to 25, 900;
class S, from 1000 to $500, and class 6,
1000 or less.
Forty eight Hour limit Set
The proposed agreement on which
hearing date has not been set would
work any employe not more than 40
hours a week in classes l to 4. Ex-
changes in classes S and would work
employees not longer than the normal
work week in effect on July l, and in
no case for an average Of more than 48
hours week in any 90-day period No
company would reduce hours of tele-
phone service below those of July l.
Minimum wages proposed included
SIS a week for class l exchanges, $14.50
in class 2 S14 in class 3, and $13 in
class 4. In Gloss exchanges the COM
panies would increase July /, wages by
not less than 20 per cent, and in class
6 exchanges by not less than 10 per
cent, provided that in either case this
shall not require wages exceeding $12
a week. A differential of 81 a week
under these minimum rates was pro-
posed for the South
Recovery headquarters notified the
Silk Association of America that silk
g., ,%,,r1 l.