Evening star., 1933-08-05
LABOR AND'CAnTA[
PEACE REIGN ASKED
Industrial and Workers Ad.
yisory Boards Join in Max
mo Vivid Appeal.
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20 the HOOCeVclI uO3Ilc "AeAA sAAS
of q night and day Of negotiation
A Temporary arbitration board viii
take charge Immediately, the miners re-
turning to work free from anti-union
discrimination and with their own
weiehmen checking the output OF coal
This situation Will prevail until hear.
ings are completed on the code. drafted
under the recovery act, liking wages
and hours for bituminous miners. The
hearings start next wednesday.
Future Not Considered
IN the announcements last night
nothing definite was said Of wider
plan for general arbitration Of labor
dif3iculties, but there were numerous
indications that some such project was
In the making, waiting now for preA-
Dental sanction.
Already the cotton textile industry
has been provided with . board OF
three members, representing the Gov
ernment. the employer and the worker.
which through subsidiary boards and
committees Is to adjust difnculties. Ex-
tension of the system In further major
codes has been forecast, but the de-
velopment Of the coal strike and otner
labor disturbances was said to be likely
to lead to q quicker, more general ap-
plication of the method. possibly
through one board equipped to CONSIDER
the labor troubles of all industries.
johnson was expected back from
HYDE Park during the day, and mean
time the unemployment machine IN
washington ground forward at its task
Of blanketing industry and trade INTO
the bigger pay roll drive.
Reported imminent were orders 70
permit q new line Of industries to MOIST
Immediately the Blue Eagle N. r. A.
banner under temporary terms better
suited to their problems than the set
limits Of the presidential agreement.
The tobacco industry was ct the head
Of the new list with its wage-hour code.
under scrutiny also were the proposals
Of restaurant men, and long list OF
associations covering the drug neld,
from retailer to manufacturer.
Temporary application, pending hear
ings, OF wage and hour regulations toE
these groups and others was to be
superimposed upon yesterdays blanket
inr in Of IA separate industrial sroupa
and similar inclusion Of many others
in the preceding days.
Pennsylvania's striking miners are 70
be back at work Monday with the basic
reasons for their walkout brought fur-
ther into the open wednesday, when
public hearings are begun ON the indus
trial code for the soft-coA miners.
Eighteen separate codes. recovery a.
ministrators say, have been fled. The
miners claim the right, under the law,
to join any union they see At; some op-
erators have argued for separate unions
for each company. This, along with
minimum wages, y one point to be
fought out.
Hold Meetings Today.
After President Roosevelt last night
had approved the truce setting up the
arbitration board and allowing strikers
70 20 back to work without any dis
crsmination. President John Lewis OF
the United Mine Workers Of America
immediately telephoned Patrick Pagan
and william Feeney, Western FennsY.
vania Union district presidents. aoout
the arrangement.
Pagan and Feeney contacted neeo
representatives. VINO called meetings
lewis said . day or % would Be re-
ouired to get an the idle miners In
shape for work. Maintenance men, he
said. could return today and tomorrow
and have things ready for fuu snnt
Tne strike, which resulted IN much
fioting and one fatality, began at the
Il. c. Frick Coke %. mines in Eayette
County. PA. That company, united
states Steel Corporation subGoiary,
after appeals to it, parent concern, Was
the first to accept the terms OF tne
truce. Other mines followed.
Lewis Makes StAtsnenA
In announcing the coal settlement.
Lewis issued . statement saying:
"This settlement viii not IN any man
ner influence or prejudice the aoJust-
ment Of the problem Of the coal INDUS
try by the National Recovery Adm1nls.
ts1tion In the hearings ON the coal
code which begin August Q. This ar,
ran9ement makes possible the logical
INTERPRETATION of the intricate and deep
seated Ills Of the mining industry In the
manner prescribed by the recovery act.
/. instructions requesting compliance
With the terms Of this settlement wil
Be issued Immediately to the district
orTanisations and local unions IN the
affected area.
'."The United Mine Workers OF Amer
Sc> viii call upon its every loyal MEM
Der to accept Immediately this arrange
ment and extend to the President OF
the United States the fullest degree OF
co-operation in his earnest effort to re-
store order and bring economic stabn-
tty to the stricken coal industry"
johnson vists Hyde Psrk.
johnson left for Hyde Park Just be-
Three members Of the Arbitration
Board understood virtually to have been
decided upon late yesterday were Gerad
Swope, president Of the General Elec-
tric Co; Louis KRISTEN. 4 Boston
manufacturer, representing the Indus
tr1al Board, and George Berry, presi-
dent Of the Pressthen's Union, repre-
senting the Labor Board.
Erapted permission to join the -four
miliefy and the growing group Of other
businesses In operating under temporary
codea Of their own until permanent
Ones can be established.
This permission was given Advertising
Opecialties, ice cream. huid milk, knitted
outefwear, oil burners, optical supplies,
pAint. varnish and lacquer, printing.
toys ana playthinss and retail lumber
ygpducts.
In peremptoriiy Withdrawing the code
for the laundry industry yesterday, the
administration utilized for the first time
It, power to anyiul or modify codes.
~ IN oversight. the deputy sdminis-
traitors and labor advisers Of the Re-
coyery Administration failed to note
the IL cents IN hour rate fixed IN the
agreement. with 10 per cent diner-
ential allowed for communities under
100, 900 population.
In presenting the petition. the laun-
dry industry said millions OF dollars
would be added in pay rolls and thou
sands Of persons re-employed. The
afoup viii be expected now either to
make fevisions upward in their scale
Of pay or else Agn the Presidents
agreements to obtain the Blue Eagle.
Others Making Pians
Action on other codes either pending