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foundation.
After johnson talks to the President
aboard the yacht Sequoia, somewhere
down the Potomac today, an early call
for volunteer action by every employ
ing business is expected.
Hearings on Large Scale.
This week hearings on codes will be-
gin on large scale. The agreements
Of the electrical manufacturing indus
try and the shipbuilding and ship
repairing trade will 60 under examina-
ton wednesday. The next day a code
for the entire lumber trade will be
taken up. The following Monday a COL
lection Of codes proposed for the petro-
leum industry will be examined, and
the wool industry's 40-hour week plan
with minimum wages Of s13 South and
$14 North will be taken up
The coal hearing probably will be
begun that week One group Of oper-
ators has filed an agreement, but the
two largest, Northern and Southern nom
union operators, who control 70 per
cent Of the bituminous coal output,
will get together here tomorrow to re-
duce the two codes they have COM
pleted to single one-if possible.
That will have the bigger raw ma
terial industries. with the exception Of
all in process Of joining the Industrial
control program. Big lines still not
heard from include automobiles, ma
chinery, chemicals. but their agree
ments. too, are looked for in the near
future.
An agreement Is expected this week
from the National Retail Council, which
Is trying to frame one plan suitable
to the 100000 or 50 stores in every
community which sell everything that
people buy.
The steel code filed yesterday called
for its administration through the
board Of directors Of the Iron and Steel
Institute, 80 men to be chosen, whom
per cent Of the industry.
Labor Provisions Outlined.
Its labor provisions are: Forty hours
| work week, averaged over each six
month period; common labor minimum
wages Of IS cents in Southern districts,
running up to 40 cents In the bigger
producing centers; a fiat increase of Is
per cent for workers above the mini
mum; preservation of the present sys-
tenn Of collective bargaining through
| work councils or company unions
without interference, restraint or coer-
cion of any sort" with final appeals
lodged in the head Of each company,
; and with no outside unionization.
This. however, was qualified by sub
scription to the mandatory clause Of
the recovery law which maintains the
right Of workers to organize in any way
they see f1t and deal with their employ
ers through delegates of their own free
choosing.
No specific control OF production VOL
ume was proposed beyond forbidding
increase Of any plants pig iron or ingot
producing capacity.
On prices, an elaborate system OF
"basing points" was set up for each
product Each mill must report its
prices, as at present. to the Steel '1nSti-
tute, whose board may investigate them
if need appears. Discounts for prompt
payment were fixed at one-half OF
Der cent for payment within 10 days
except In the case of shipments from
the Eastern zone to the Pacific Coast,
when the limit is IS days. Maximum
periods Of free credit also were pre-
scribed.
Green, the Federation Of Labor presi-
dent, assailed the employe representa-
ton plan Of the steel men because he
argued that despite any assurances OF
secret election Of representatives, the
workers are not free Of their employers
influence and that in effect "the cor
porations are dealing with themselves.
Wage Situation Analyzed.
OF the wage and hour provisions he
said: "If the purposes of the national
recovery act are to be realized, 1t IS
necessary that the large basic indus
tries like steel increase wages and cut
working time far more than is proposed.
Steel should be called upon by the Gov
ernment to do its whole share In absorb
ing unemployed workers"
Figures on the actual number OF
workers in steel plants available here
were not regarded as dependable by ON
cials because of the many changes that
have been taking place. In 1881, with
the industry running between go and
10 per cent Of capacity, census figures
listed 264000 workers. Now the so per
cent mark again is being approached,
but technical changes may have re-
duced the number of men involved.
The wool manufacturers in filing their
code asked the administration to pro-
tect them against foreign importations.
In addition to raising wages and cut
ting working hours, they limited ma
chine operation to two 40-hour shifts,
Just as cotton did, and they also banned
child labor.
"The cost Of the products of the in
dustry," they said, will be materially
increased by the larger wage cost per
unit of product resulting from the estab-
lishment of this code. We realize, how
ever, that our action In becoming sub
ject to the code Is part OF the large pro-
gram of the administration looking to-
ward the prompt increase OF purchasing
power and the general Improvement OF
economic conditions.
I'VE stand ready to go forward In
this industry with the initial step to-
ward the success of this vital effort"
Special Advisers Named.
Late yesterday the Recovery Admin
istration announced the appointment of
/ special industrial and labor advisers for
| consideration of several of the pending
| codes.
J. L. Luckenback, president Of Amer
ican Bureau of Shipping, and Joseph
Franklin, president Of the international
Boilermakers' Union, were chosen fol
| the shipbuilding hearing.
| On electrical manufacturing: Gerard
Swope, president of General Electric Co.
and William Green.
On the coat and suit division Of the
apparel industry Louis KRISTEN, vict
president Of william Fflene's Sons Co.
! Boston, director Of the National Better
Business Bureau, and Sidney Hillman
president of the Amalgamated Clothing
Workers Union.
! For petroleum: Walter G. Teagle
president. Of Standard Oil, and chair.
man of the Recovery Administrator
Industrial Advisory Board, and John b