Evening star., 1933-08-08
|N.R.A. DE[|NQUENTS
|G|VEN N"TWOWEEKS"
TO AVOID BOYCOTT
Johnson Again Warns He Will
Ask Consumers to Get
in Line.
LABOR ORGANIZATIONS
WILL CHECK VIOLATIONS
Women's Section of Campaign
Will Make House to- House
Canvass.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Signs multiplied today that the Ma
t1onal Recovery Administration will
brook no holding back OF double-dealing
IN the determined prosecution of its
plans to bulWark popular buying power
and employment
While setting no specific deadline.
Hugh s. johnson spoke again of allow
ing two weeks" for those businesses
still outside the blanket to come in be-
fore asking the public to apply the boy
colt screws to force the lngerers in.
And, on top of that, William Green,
president of the American Federation
Of Labor, prominent in N R. A. activity,
told reporters he would ask all State
and city branches of his organization
the recovery act.
Labor organizations over the entire
country thus would watch for infIac-
tions of codes as they affect both the
manufacturers or sellers and laborers.
Cities and States to Act.
Reports of violations would be cleared
through city and State headquarters to
the federation's national Headquarters
here, to be turned over to the Recovery
Administration for disciplinary action
after investigation
AS a part of this renewed pressure,
which johnson said was necessary to
put millions back on jobs before Labor
day. the labor and industrial advisory
boards were called into full session TO
help draft plans
He saio the next few weeks will large
ly determine the success or failure OF
the huge emergency unemployment pro-
gram, based upon the necessity OF re-
storing purchasing power before Fall.
Miss Mary Hughes, director of the
women's section of the Emergency Re
employment Campaign, announced COM
pletlon OF an organization in 1e States
to map house-to-houSe and stole-to-
! store canvaSseS in each community.
| They will check up the compliance with
| agreements and present to consumers
the demand of the National Recovery
| Administration that they trade at Blue
Eagle establishments.
Check Will Be Made.
Green said instructions would go out
| to the organizations entire membership
not to accept the Blue Eagle alone as
| evidence OF cooperation on the part
| of the business house, but to make in
| quirieS whether acceptance OF the
agreement with President Roosevelt
actually had been followed by higher
wages and increased employment
| through shortened hours.
Green told newspaper men that the
e a nrl
| ing of which he had just attended. had
considered some of the organization
| problems of the new agency designated
| by the President to enu industrial sJrlfe
while the recovery program Is going
forward
The new board, to be known as the
National Labor Board, is to holo a
meeting tonight.
Presentation of new codes and public
hearings on those already entered con-
tlnued today. The latest arrival was
proposed for daily newspapers. while
taking of testimony proceeded on agree
ments proposed by the wallpaper and
| lime businesses.
Warning Is Sent.
To employers the country over went
/ today an indirect but renewed warning
InaC the recovery administrator wants
everybody under the Blue Eagle in two
weeks.
With that goal in mind he appointed
| a special boalo to consider and speed
temporary application Of the many
| pending codes that fix minimum wages
and minimum hours for as many traces.
When the two weeks have expired
| the administrator now plans a con-
| certed appeal for consumers t. buy only
| from the men who are entitled to dis
| play the Blue Eagle.
Members of Board.
AS members of that board johnson
! named Robert T. Stevens, a deputy
| administrator; Edward R. Stettinius,
secretary of the Recovery Administra-
/ tion's industrial advisory board: Robert
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