The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1933-07-27

hugh .. to hold arbitrary
Johnson hearings and then
fix the wage rates and working
hours for the reealcitrant trades.
These enforced regulations will ap-
ply until the industries present
their own codes. e. .s..-
If it is necessary to adopt arbi-
trary codes, these will be based on
data gathered by the administra-
lions statistical expert, DR.. Alex
ander Sachs, who has already pre-
pared a setup codifying various
leading industries according to
number of conditions. They have
been rated according to wage scales
existing in various years, chiefly the
boom year of 1929, and charts have
been prepared showing how far cuts
In working hours must be made to
restore mass of employment equal
to predepression days.
With these data Doctor Sachs has
shown conclusions as to how much
each industry ought to pay in mini
mum wages, how many employees
It ought to absorb from the army
Of idle, and how many hours those
employees ought to work every
week.
Two important codes received
were those of the lumber and steel
Industries. The former pegged wages
90 low and working hours so long
that General Johnson said: "They
are wholly unacceptable and will,
In no case, be approved" A public
hearing on this code was set for
July 20. In submitting the code,
John d. Tenant, representing the
lumber men, declared it would re-
suit IN "a substantial Increase in
the number of employees, and that
It would increase pay rolls by more
than 10000 600 in the month Of Au-
gust alone.
The most extraordinary thing
about the lumber code is that it
would set up "an emergency ma
donal committee" to be appointed
BY the q associations applying for
the code, which would have the
strongest Of autocratic power, to
the point Of exerting absolute con-
rol over the entire industry.
The cotton textile code was APP
proved by the President and went
into effect.
DOR the purpose Of co-ordinating
: the many new functions and new
bureaus created since March A, the
President has created super-cab-
met, called the Executive council"
similar to the supreme war council
OF World war days. Besides the
President and his cabinet the mem
oers are: The director Of the bud
get, Lewis w. Douglas; the federal
relief administrator, Harry L. Hop
Ains; the chairman of the Recon-
struction Finance corporation, ]. ii.
Jones; the governor of the farm
credit administration, Henry Nor
genthau, Jr.; the chairman of the
board Of the Home Owners Farm
corporation, William f. Stevenson:
tne administrator of the industrial
recovery act, Gen. Hugh s. john
son; the administrators of agricul-
tarai adjustment, George Peek: the
chairman of the board of the Ten
nessee valley authority, Arthur 3.
Morgan; the federal railroad co-or-
S,nalor, Joseph B. Eastman, and the
director of the civilian conservation
corps, Robert Fechner. -
FRANK c. Walker, treasurer of the
Nauonal Democratic committee. was
appointed secretary Of the council.
During the summer and perhaps
Unger the regular Tuesday cabinet
meeting Is to be superseded by a
meeting of the council.
NMRETARY OF THE INTERIOR
iCkES, in his capacity as pub
~ norks administrator, and his as
ses are mighty busy these
Jays Tor government departments.
s s, and municipalities are scram-
o ol.n g for shares Of the $4,000
wNooO which is to be spent nm
:. tne public works program of
cue administration. The proposed
.euerai projects were given first
tS a and a long list of
s n was approved by Mr.. Ickes
n,, e submitted to the President. Ap-
i uaeation from states and municipal.
tues came next, many of them hav.
ps s previously been approved by the
Onstruetion Finance corporation.
s, AN "a additional s2e,27e, 400 of the
,oos allocated for public
n, ou gl1ts to the states was ap-
On, u when the allotments for
.a;- massachusetts, and Utah re-
saa eo the final Endorsement of
Ia., etary 1ckes and Secretary of
agriculture Wallace. With the s22.-