Evening star., 1933-06-23
INDUSTRIES SPEED
DRAF TING Of CODES
Recovery Administrator
Would Avoid Licensing
Feature of Act.

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over those that would be spread over
relatively long period.
The advisory board also ruled that
the next in rank would be projects in
or near centers of employment as more
desirable than ones in areas where
the problem of unemployment is less
acute"
Two prime requisites written by the
board were:
THE projects should be socially de-
sirable in the sense Of contributing
something Of value to equipment of
the community and should not be a
mere makeshift to supply work
mo work should be constructed
which would require for its maintenance
or operation an additional outlay by
the Federal Government"
The code submitted by the Cast Iron
Soil Pipe Manufacturers to Gen. john
son fixed maximum 30-hour week,
with minimum wages It s2.75 day in
Southern plants and $425 daily else
where. The pipe manufacturers asso-
SAdIlOii odlu was 11,ooO
employees in the industry and that only
$500 now were employed
johnson said it was improbable the
pipe code would be acted on before
codes of major industries were arranged.
Meantime Secretary Perkins said she
imagined" that any company union,
hastily thought up since the passage
of the recovery bill, would not be re-
garded as truly representative"
The act provides that employers. after
their codes have been approved, should
not interfere with collective bargaining
by the employees.
Cites Draft Evaders.
Miss Perkins added, however, that
she felt individual cases would be con-
sidered as they were presented and that
there might be exceptions to any
opinion she expressed about the issue.
When reminded that coal and hosiery
mill operators were setting up employees
associations, the cabinet officer said her
first thought was of men who married
after the draft act was passed during
the World War in an effort to escape
conscription in the Army
Newly formed company unions would
be about as valid" she said before
qualifying the statement to admit pos
SlDlllCy OI eACcptlOilS.
This discussion was brought about
after Miss Perkins attended lengthy
session of the Advisory Board for Labor
which was confronted with a protest
from organized labor against plans for
permitting agreements with industries
on minimum wages and maximum hours
without bargaining with the workers.
She said she had personally recon-
mended that in drafting codes under
the act, child labor be barred, as 80
many adults are without employment
and the real purpose Of the recovery
act is to spread work as much as pos
sible among adults"
The Public Works Advisory Board
announced it had adopted a five-point
program for labor, with the proviso
that all contracts must meet the re-
quirements Of the recovery act for short
working hours and fair wage scales.
Job opportunities, the board asserted,
Shall be equitably distributed among
qualified workers who are unemployed,
not among those who merely wish to
change one good Job for another" con-
tinuing:
These work opportunities shall be
distributed geographically, as widely
and as equitably as may be practicable.
qualified workers who, under the
law, are 6utltleQ W pIClClCllSC, e11dA
secure such treatment.
Hits Labor Migration.
1.-The wasteful costs and personal dis
appointments, due to excessive migra-
projects, should be avoided.
Local labor required for such prof.
ects and appropriately to be secured
through employment services should so
far as possible be selected from lists of
qualified workers submitted by local
employment agencies designated by the
United States Employment Service"
To States, cities and counties eager
to share in the work billions, the board
said:
Applications for Federal financing
or other aid for proposed projects
should not be rushed to Washington.
ganization is in existence and function
ing which can handle them in an or
derly and effective manner"
To prevent a hopeless jam" in
Washington the board said there must
be wide decentralization, which it pro-
posed to bring about by State admin
istrators to recommend to Washington
all non-Federal projects. Units will be
set up in Washington to consider the
State projects from these StandpOlntS:
General policy; engineering and tech
nical soundness; legal feasibility; finan-
cial set-up; economic desirability ,and
relation to unemployment and revival
of industry, and from the viewpoint of
co-ordinated planning.
Federal projects will be scanned from
the economic and coordination points.
All projects and expenditures will be
passed upon by the cabinet board, sub
ject to the approval Of President Roose-
velt.
The State administrators, whose
names the board expects to have ready
for submission to the Chief Executive
upon his return to the Capital, will be
aided in considering applications by a
technical expert from Washington and
a State advisory board.
Only projects which this State set
up approves will come on to Washing
ton, and the cabinet board warned:
Until this organization Is set up. it
will be useless to send on projects di-
rectly to Washington"
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