Evening star., 1933-08-19
TONIGHT DEADL|NE
ON MAJOR CODES
President Wants Action on
Oil an Coal Before He
Lei YES Capital.
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] recommended by a big section of tn,
business, in which Henry Ford, however
did not join.
Siding with labor was the contentio,
| OF Donald Richberg. recovery counsel
that words to continue the open shol
policy must not be written into tn,
automobile charter.
Coal Agreement Slow.
Though steel talk lasted beyond mid
! night, johnson found time to NOV,
| frequently to a neighboring Office wher,
bituminous coal spokesmen sat, withou
| agreeing, until early morning. Here tn,
controversy ragged among the operation
about wages and particularly the oper
] shop.
All the hustle conceded with a pack
ing OF luggage a block away at tn.
White House for President Roosevelt.
departure for Hyde Park tonight. Hi
| train time was the deadline set fol
steel, oil and coal.
Participating in last nights pro-
| tracted steel meeting in addition tc
; johnson and RichbeIg were Kenneth
M. Simpson, the Deputy administrator:
William A. Irwin. president United
States Steel Corporation: William j
Filbert, vice chairman of the Steel Cor
poration Board; Eugene Grace presi-
dent, Bethlehem Steel Corporation: E
T. Weir. chairman of the National Steel
Corporation; Tom M. Girdler, chairman
of the Republic Steel Corporation
L. E. Block, chairman of the Inland
Steel Co.: Hugh Morrow. president,
Schloss- -Schefield Steel and Iron Co
Nathan L. Miller, former Governor of
New York and counsel for United States
Steel. and H. A. Moore, counsel for
the American Steel and Iron Institute.
Labor in Conference.
For five hours, Johnson and the
spokesmen for the steel plants
conferred at the administrators
Office. Shortly before midnight men,
bers of the Labor Advisory Commit
tee. headed by DR.. Leo Wolman and
including President Wi'iam Green of
the American Federation of Labor, be-
gan to arrive.
Asked specifically by newspaper men
whether this indicated that an agree
ment with operators had been reached
and that labor was being asked to ap-
prove it, one official nodded assent.
Auto Hearing Rushed.
Meanwhile the automobile code. upon
which hearings were begun yesterday
with Ford still unrepresented-is to be
pushed through at the highest possible
speed.
The clause asserting the industry
may continue the open-shop policy
has been covered with objections by
Richberg. while spokesmen for organ
lied labor have Joined in the lombard
ment, insisting upon higher wages and
St for l,a,1
President Green of the American
Federation Of Labor also assailed the
open-shop clause. asserting it had no
legal or rightful place in the code and
endangered the right of collective bar
gaining guaranteed to the workers by
the recovery law.
The industry'S spokes men have given
no signs of receding en- the open-shop
clause as did the steel industry when
the administration refused to approve
its company union provision.
AS required by the recovery law. the
automobile code sets forth the right of
organized labor to bargain collectively
! through representatives of its own
/ choosing without restraint or interfer-
ence from the employers and to join
whatever unions it pleases.
Misconstr rIction Feared.
Richberg in urging that the open
shop reference be eliminated, said that
although such was not the intent. the
phrase lent itself to general inter-
probation as declaration from the
| industry that it will not abide by the
requirement Of the recovery law in re-
turn for its benefit.
Green said the code of the National
Automobile Chamber of Commerce
(which proposed the one under dis
cusSion) provides necessarily that EN-
ployes shall have the right to organize
and bargain collectively through rep
resentatives of their own choosing but
IL sets up no machinery for collective
bargaining"
ON the contrary, it proposes to con-
tinue the open shop and open shops.
II i know anything about them, are a
deterrent to organization and collective
bargaining. Thus the chamber pro-
poses to nullify the provision for COL
lective bargaining
The time has come when we should
determine what is guaranteed to labor
oy this provision of the national in
dustrial recovery act. Is it enough that
| industry should do lip-seryice to the
| workers right to collective bargaining
while taking no steps to make collective
bargaining possible. or. in fact. taking
steps to make collective bargaining i'm
possible?
Sees Fundamental Ignored.
"The code ignores this fundamental
| fact: Collective bargaining is a two
sided matter; the employees have the
right to bargain collectively with the
| employers. Are the employers of the
automobile industry seeking to demon
strate that thev have the right not to
bargain collectively with their en-
ployes?"
The code proposes a wage scale rang
ing from 40 to 43 cents per hour, de-
pending on the population of the city
involved A maximum working week
of 48 hours is stipulated with the con-
ditions that the average for any worker
shall not exceed 35.
Green argued that the rate of pay
was too low to restore purchasing power
and the hours too long to spread the
| available work among a satiSi,c.-,r,
| number of workers He proposed an
amendment. which would almost COM
| pletely substitute the codes labor pro-
! vision and would call for a minimum
wage of so cents per hour and a 30
hour week
AS the hearing was being concluded
ldte yeslctudN, f1eIlIy FOTQ was cT1tl-
cized by Philip Raymond. representing
| the auto workers union of Detroit
Most of the Ford workers think q
, separate code is needed for the Forc
| plants alone" Raymond said.
Ford was mentioned only infrequent-
| " during the discussions.
Shoe Code Redraft Begun.
officials of the National Boot ans
| Shoe Manufacturers Association toda.
started to draft a revised code, with {
dispute between rival manufacturers
associations apparently settled.
| The agreement sets up the nationa
association board of directors as tn,
agency to select the executive bod,
which will administer the CODE Cleve.
land A. Newton of st. Louis, counse