Evening star., 1933-09-02
BUILDING INDUSTRY
CODE HEARING SET
NEXT WEDNESDAY
Rules of Fair Practice to
Affect Great Number of
Workers.
REAL ESTATE BOARDS
ALSO COMPILE DRAFT
n. R. A. Officials Have Not Set
Date for Public Testimony
by Realty Group.

The proposed master code for the
giant national construction industry
together with supplements for nine CT
its important functional divisions, will
be taken up for formal consideration
by the National Recovery Administra-
ton next week. it was announced today.
In reporting that public hearings or
the code will begin next Wednesday be-
fore Deputy Administrator Malcolm
Muir. the Code Committee of the Con-
struction League described it as being
second only to the Presidents re-
employment agreement in the number
OF workers it would affect"
Meanwhile the National Association
of Real Estate Boards. representing
realtors throughout the United States,
has submitted a code for the real es-
tate business to officials of the Ma
tional Recovery Administration.
Miller Directed Work.
It was announced last week that
the draft of the code would cover the
matter Of maximum hours of employ
ment and minimum wages for en-
ployes in all types of real estate busi-
ness. 1t was said also the code would
contain a section which would outlaw
as unfair certain practices regarded as
destructive to values and generally det-
Simental to real estate activity.
Preparation of the code for real es
tate has been conducted by Code
Committee of the National Association
of Real Estate Boards, under the direc-
ton of the president of the board, w.
c. Miller Of this city, member of the
firm of w. c. & A. N. Miller:
Members of the realtor Code Com
mittee are J. w. Cree, jr.. of Pitts
burgh, chairman; Hugh Potter, Hous-
ton, Tex, president-elect of the asSo-
citation for 1884; Harry E. Gilbert of
Baltimore, j. c. Nichols of Kansas
City, Mo-, and j. Soule Waterfield of
Chicago Delbert S. Wenzlick of St.
Louis acted as committee consultant.
In announcing plans for hearings on
the code for the construction industry,
the Code Committee of the Construc-
tion League stated:
THE hearings will mark the first in
stance in N r. A. history where large
number Of separate and distinct occu-
pational interests have united volun-
tarily to sponsor one master code for
their highly diversified industry and
to subordinate their occupational codes
to that of the entire industry. Through
this procedure it is estimated that up
ward to 100000 workers will be blank
eted under the Blue Eagle Immediately
upon completion of the hearings and
dDUTONdl VI lllC lIdotCA NOdC ny eiAS
President.
THE minimum wage and maximum
hour provisions of the master code,
which was developed comparatively un-
der the sponsorship of the Construction
League of the United States, cover both
white collar employees and manual
labor and provide for the former class
q minimum wage ranging from S12 to
SIS per week and for the latter 40 cents
per hour Maximum hours are set at
IS hours per week over six months
calendar period, with the added pro-
vision that no one may work more than
48 hours in any one week, nor more
than hours in any one day.
Nine Supplementary Codes.
"The nine occupational supplements
that will be considered in conjunction
with the master code to which they
subscribe are those dealing with the
specific interests of architects, as sub
mitted by the American Institute of
Architects; general contractors. as sub
mitted by the Associated General Con-
tractors of America; master painters,
as submitted by the International So
ciety of Master Painters and Dec
orators, Inc. electrical contractors, as
submitted by the National Electrical
Contractors Association; marble con-
tractors, as submitted by the National
Association of Marble Dealers; plumb
ing and heating, as submitted by the
National Association of Master Plumb
ers of the United States; heating and
piping, as submitted by the Heating,
Piping and ir-Conditioning Contrac-
tors National Association; cement gun
contractors. as submitted by the Cement
Gun Contractors Association, and
building granite, as submitted by the
National Building Granite Quarries As
sociation, Inc. Additional supplements,
simplifying the master code for other
branches of the industry, are being
rapidly developed and will be consid-
cred by the Recovery Administration at
subsequent public hearings"
On the eve of the hearings Stephen
F. Voorhees, of New York, chairman OF
the Code Committee of the Construc-
tion League, which is serving as cor
relator of the various supplemental
codes, predicted that the industry would
present a united front in support Of
the master code and the nine supple
mental codes which are to be consld-
cred at the same time.
The diversified economic interests
affected by the master code and its
supplements provide a guaranty to the
public that selfish and untried prin-
ciples have not been permitted to find
their way into these documents which
are to have such controlling influ-
ence over future construction Of all
types" voorhees, said.