Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1933-08-06
Seven Chosen
to Adjust
Disputes.
JOHNSON DENIES
CODES REVISION
Tobacco Men Join
Oil Group on
Price Plea.

His program for national re-
covery bulwarked by AN appeal
from spokesman of capital and
labor for industrial peace, Hugh
S. johnson yesterday swung back
to the job of bringing all indus
tries under wage and hour regula-
tons.
The ard-working administra-
tor returned tired and worn from
the Summer White House in New
York, where he received President
Roosevelt's approval of the i'm
mediate plan for settling the
Pennsylvania coal strike and the
long-range proposition of prevent
ing labor troubles through friendly
cooperation of capital and en-
ployes.
Four more industries, including
meat packing, employing nearly
10000 workers, were authorized
by johnson to put into effect i'm
mediately their own codes for
raising wages and shortening
hours of work.
To this growing list of proposed
codes were added those OF the
electric light and power and gas
industries. Both sought tempo
rary effectiveness Of their wage
and hour provisions.
Denies Later Changes.
In another direct effort to remove
obstacles from the path OF employers
wishing to sign President RooseVeltS
blanket agreement to increase purcnas,
ing power, Johnson issued 1ormai
statement challenging interpretations
which he said had been heard over me
country that the Chief Executive mlgnt
exercise his power to cancel or mool1y
any order or approval and thereby
change the terms of the agreement.
In the first place" the administrator
said. Il question the validity OF this
Interpretation of the N. 1. R. A, The
right to cancel or modify his own &C
ton does not imply any grant OF power
to the President to change the obnga-
ton entered into by person who mas
signed an agreement with the Presl-
dent.
Certainly it is unthinkable that the
President would ask employers to sign
agreements reserving to hlmSeH the
power to rewrite the agreement ana
then hold the other party bound by an
obligation he never assumed.
Finds Theory Surprising.
Indeed it is surprising to think that
any one should impute any such IN
tention to the President"
Taking precedence, however, over all
other developments, was the appeal 10
Spokesman of business and their en-
ployes not to precipitate strikes during
the economic emergency, described py
johnson as 1.-The most significant thing
that has happened yet in this move
ment," the joint statement, IN tne
the creation of a distinguished tribunal
to pass promptly on any case OF hard
ship or dispute that may arise from IN
depreciation or application OF the
Presidents unemployment agreement.
THE advantages of this recon-
mendation are plain, and I accept 1t
and hereby appoint the men 1t pro-
posed, whose names will carry their
own commentator to the country" the
President said.
At the head of this tribunal was
placed Senator Wagner, the New York
Democrat, who has made a long study
of industrial affairs.
Sitting with him will be William
Green, president of the American Fed
Grafton of Labor; Dr. Leo Wolman, for
mer Columbia University professor and
chairman of the Recovery Administra-
tons Labor Advisory Committee; John
L. Lewis, president of the Mine Work
ers' Union: Walter c. Teagle, chairman
of the administrations Industrial Ad-
visory Board; Gerard Swope. a New
York manufacturer, and Louis E. XIII
stein, a Boston manufacturer.
Swope, KRISTEN and George Berry,
president of the Pressmen's Union, are
named board of three to arbitrate the
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