Evening star., 1933-08-25
IN. R. A. NOW READY
FOR Jobs DRIVE
! 100000 Men and Women
to Take Part in Cam
paign.
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to swing the oil and steel industries
into the N. R. A. program of minimum
wages and shortened working hours
was being withheld for the time being,
at least from coal and autos.
johnson himself passed in the midst
OF his bargaining with the coal oper-
atorS to commend the efforts of these
pubi1c-spirited men," including spokes-
men Tor the miners. and urged patience
for the public while the old problems
OF the coal mines was worked out.
President Directing Effort.
He added that President Roosevelt
was directing the effort to work out
an greement upon a code. He talked
with Mr. Roosevelt by telephone during
the day on the progress Of the negotia-
tionS.
Hopes of an accord were drawn by
the administrator from the fact that
the representatives of the highly COM
petitive Northern and Southern Appa-
lachian operators and the United Mine
Workers were sitting down together in
joint effort to work out the problem.
A new problem vas raised yesterday
by operators of large New York depart
ment stores when they broke openly
over the terms of the retail code of
fair practice
3. H. Namm, speaking for IA stores,
urged inclusion in the code of some
regulation of prices and advertising
Percy S. Straus. president of R. H
Macy g. Co, opposed both price fixing
and any advertising Censorship"
Described by Namm as designed to
curb predatory or destructive price
ha yrtcin
prohibiting retail sales at less than in
voice cost plus 10 per cent. partially to
cover labor costs and overhead Other
proposals would forbid general under
selling claims or references in ad-
vertising to competitors.
Terms of New Code.
The new tentative code for the re-
tail trades calls for a work week OF
from A to 48 hours and minimum
wages ranging from Sl2 10 SIS. 1t was
offered to the Recovery Administration
last night by the industry's Drafting
Committee
The committee went into executive
session late in the day following ex-
tensi"e hearings. The code had not
been approved by all Of the representa-
tiVeS Of the various groups, several Of
whom requested longer work hours
Other important factions opposed new
and stringent clauses banning many
so-called unfair trade practices.
The code made sets out to describe
false advertising claims which would
be no longer permissible; retains a
low cost and definitely forbids the ad-
vertising of a claim by a store that it
generally undersells competitors.
The new labor provisions provided
that stores operating between 56 and
60 hours per week would work employees
A hours per week and that those op-
Grating more than 63 hours might
work employees no more than 43.
A 43-hour week was set for mainte-
nance and delivery employees. with
time and one-third for overtime. and al
executives receiving more than $50 Pc
week we're excepted from the hourly
provisions, as were outside statesmen.
Authority Granted.
Meantime, IL additional industries
were given authority to substitute their
own hour and wage provisions for those
OF the Presidents re-employment agree
ment and to come under the Blue Eagle
Immediately All retained the 40-hour
week for mechanical employees, but with
hexibility to allow more time during
rush perlCCS.
The IL were: swing machine manu-
facturers, feed manufacturers, fat glass
distributors, country grain elevators,
paper distributors, baking powder
makers. mems neckwear, earthenware,
washing ard ironing machine manu-
facturers, and favoring extract and
SOFA water iavoring makers.
At the same time the Telephone
Manufacturing Association, covering
telephone apparatus and appliance
manufacturers exclusive of the Western
Electric, withdrew a pending proposed
code and announced it would comply
with the electrical manufacturers code,
in force since August 4.
General Electric already was in on
this agreement.
It was estimated that immediate in
clusion Of the other telephone makers
would create LOCO new Jobs.