Evening star., 1933-09-20
Joint CODE SOUGHT
|NPR|NT|NG TRADES
Employers Appoint Commit
tee After N. R. A. Pres.
sure Is Applied.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Under N. R. A. pressure, disagreeine
employers today appointed q special
committee to try to work out q master
code for the $4,000 units Of the printing
industry.
After Lindsay Rogers, deputy admin
istrator. had told newspaper men he
hoped the employers would be sensible
enough" to agree upon one charter
covering everything from newspapers to
electrotypers. the National Executive
Committee of Employers set up at q
recent Chicago meeting announced the
new plan.
That is, said Frank J. Smith, of
Rochester, N. Y, to draft basic code
for the commercial printing industry
Rogers will be asked to join the con-
ferences.
Members Of Committee.
Members named to the new COM
mittee, which will attempt to put to-
gethcr the % codes now being heard
by N. r. A., are, in addition to Smith
H. E. Ambrose Of Nashville, T. z
Donnelley Of Chicago, B. B. Eisenbere
of Cleveland, H. A. Fischer Of Chicago
R. A. Heffner of Los Angeles. G. T. Lord
and E. J. Mordaunt Of New York. Donald
Rein Of Houston, Walter B. Reilly OF
Lowell, Mass; Harold p. Winchester OF
Albany and Oscar T. Wright of this
city.
Labor leaders have insisted that any
code which reduced unemployment
among the $4,000 units OF the COM
mercial printing industry must pro-
vide a maximum 32-hour work week
and a minimum wage Of so cents an
hour
Labors case was presented yesterday
by Charles P. Howard, president Of the
International Typographical Union, in
behalf Of the International Allied
Printing Trades Association, which also
includes In its membership the Inter-
national Printing Pressmen and As
sistants' Union, Brotherhood of Book
binders, Photoengravers' Union, and
Stereotypers and Electrotypers' Union.
Attacks Present Code.
The commercial printing code be-
fore the N. R. A., Howard said, was
tanning how much the industry could
rightfully contribute. but how little it
was necessary to concede."
1T ignores entirely the organization
and the skill of the tradesmen and
tradeswomen employed in the print
ing industry and arrogantly proposes
a code affecting their economic life
without apparent concern as to the
consequences to the whole printing in
dustry," he continued.
Besides that, Howard argued, the
so-called basic code" for printing does
not reflect the attitude of the more
reasonable employers" but "discloses
the influence Of those elements which
have been most active in opposing the
established practice OF collective bar
gaining"
Labor Not Represented.
He said labor had not participated
in the conferences in Chicago at which
the code was drawn, adding 'our invi-
tations' for a joint meeting with en-
ployers were rejected.
The 40-hour week required by the
Presidents Unemployment agreement
|, has not scratched the surface Of un.
employment in the printing industry
he testified.
Howard said the 32-hour week shoulc
be limited to four 8-hour days. Over.
time for any individual he would allow
SO long as the total work in the five
weeks did not exceed l60 hours ant
time and half were paid for the exces.
over eight hours a day.
Where the employers code proposed
Accent an hour minimum for mer
and 80 cents for women, labor, through
Howard. demanded a restoration of al
schedules to the July Is, 1929. levels, les
10 per cent, with an absolute minimum
| Of so cents an hour.
Mo differentiation between the hourl,
| rates Of men and women should b
| allowed" he said, holding that it L
AN unjust principle, and. Furthermore
| 1t is likely to lead to the wholesale dis
placement of adult men, which shoult
not be countenanced in such an emer.
gency."