The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-06-10

be approved under the nations
This became evident today as con-
ferences between manufacturers,
labor leaders, and tentatively-ap-
pointed officials of the new admin
istration got under way at head
quarters established by General
Hugh S. Johnson, who is to ad-
minister the law
The iron and steel industry is
anxious to have a thirty-t hour
week, composed of four eight-hour
days, and indications are that this
will be approved.
Wherever possible, however, it is
the apparent intention of the new
administration to keep work hours
as close to the thirty-hour week as
possible.
Textile Dispute Threatens
A dispute with the textile in
dustry threatens on this question.
Mill owners are asking for forty
hour week, and are asking also
that the senate ban on price fixing
in connection with formulation of
codes of fair competition be
eliminated before the measure final
ly becomes law.
If this is not done, textile men
are threatened to abandon attempts
at voluntary agreement, leaving the
government to test it's new power
of prescribing arbitrary wage and
hour scales for the industry.
A number of manufacturers
arriving in Washington are attempt
ing to forestall unionization of their
employees and collective bargaining
by Offering liberal wages and
thirty-hour week.
According to present indications,
terms of the bill requiring con-
sultation between employers and
workers before. scales are submitted
strictly will be adhered to.
Minimum Wage Delayed
AS soon as the bill becomes law,
personnel of the new industrial adj
ministration will be announced. The
principal advisers to serve with
General Johnson have been selected,
and have accepted their posts, it is
understood
Plans for announcing, at the
same time, a minimum wage for all
American workers apparently have
been discarded in order to promote
organization Of workers and con-
ferences between workers and en-
ployers On the subject.
The recovery bill may become law
before night. This depends on the
speed with which conference COM
mittees of the senate and house
compromise differences in the bill
as passed by the two bodies.
The senate's ban on price fixing
by trade associations, supervised bv
the government, threatens to cause
most trouble in the industrial Sec
ton.
OOhDlSOo DCtWEcn dis
"A number of conflicts exist in the
public works section of the bill.
The senate struck out a provision
that supplies used in all construc-
ton work under the act must be of
American production wherever
these are available.
1t refused to accept a provision
that minimum wages be fixed be-
fore asking bids for federal con-
Struction.
1t disagreed with the house plan
of allocating road building funds
partly on the basis of population.
One of the most important
amendments to this section provides
that loans for construction NAV be
made to states, cities and counties in
spite Of local constitutional in
hibitions against borrowing. This
was sponsored by Senator Richard
B. Russell Dem, Ga).
Another by Senator Edward P.
Costigan Dem, Colo.) makes pos
sible employment of aliens as well
as citizens on construction projects.
Surprise on Waterway
On insistence of Senator David A.
Reed Dem, Pa the senate adopt
ed a requirement that river and
harbor work undertaken under the
bill must have been approved first
by congress or by army engineers.
One of the surprises of the Fri
day night session was the refusal of
the senate to write into the recovery
bill an amendment by Senator Rob
ert La Toilette rep, Wis., guaran-
teeing to the state of New York all
the United States share in waters
of the st. Lawrence river, for pub
lie generation of hydro-electric
power. President Roosevelt strongly
this proposal in a letter
TO Senator La Toilette a few DAYS
ago.