Evening star., 1933-05-02
CHAMBER TO WEIGH.
SUBSTITUTE PLAN
TO CONTROL TRADE|
Self : Regulation, Providing
Maximum Pay and Mini
mum Hours, Proposed.
PROPOSAL is SPONSORED
BY HENRY !. HARTMAN
1900 Delegates Here for Sessions
of U. S. Organization, Start
ing Tomorrow.

X, GIlIOuEn
agreement with labor under govern
mental supervision, was in prospect
today on the eve of the twenty-first
annual meeting Of the Chamber of
Commerce of the United States.
This plan, which is a broadening of
the principle Of the trade practice con-
ference would be substitute both for
the Black 30hour bill and the proposal
of Secretary of Labor Perkins to control
wages, WORK and production; it would
entail permiSsive legislation rather than
a statutory rule.
The idea was advanced last month
before the House Labor Committee by
Henry I. Hartman, president of the
chamber, and it was said today that it
was a principal topic of discussion
among the delegates, more than 1900
of whom already are here for the OPEN
ing session tomorrow.
Hartman contended the pending
congressional proposals are too inf1ex-
IDLE.
Would Set Up Agreements.
There are approximately 1000 trade
associations covering various lines of
industry, in each of which these agree
ments would be set up, under the Har-
riman plan. He would have their terms
enforceable against all units within an
industry, so as to hold in line any re-
fusing to participate in the common in
terest.
The proposal would involve regulariza-
ton Of production along the lines ad-
vocated couple of years ago by Gerard
Swope of New York, President of the
General Electric Co., as an employment
aid and to stabilize business.
The issue will be projected into the
ali inhS ~ ho
outset, as Mr.. Swope is to speak at the
opening session, while tomorrow after
noon at o'clock at the Mayf1ower
Hotel, there will be a round-table dis
cuSSion on the same subject.
The delegates here today constituted
in large part the national councillors,
representing the / 400 constituent bod
les of the chamber They are holding
an all-day session in which half of
the board of directors-17 members
are to be elected.
Annual Dinner Tonight.
Tonight, at 7:3O, at the Mayfiower,
the American section of the Interna-
tional Chamber of Commerce will hold
its annual dinner and hear ad-
dresses by Secretary of State Hull and
Eliot Wadsworth, Assistant Secretary
of the Treasury in the past administra-
ton. Both major broadcasting chains
will carry Secretary Hull's speech at
$50
The President will speak at the an
nual banquet of the chamber at the
Auditorium Thursday night; other men,
bers of the official family who also are
to address the busines men include:
Secretaries Roper of Commerce, Wal
lace of Agriculture, Director of the
Budget Douglas and Chairman Nor
genthau of the Farm Board.
H.. i. Hartman Will Speak.
The annual meeting will get under
way at the chamber building at 10 am.
tomorrow with the keynote speech by
President Hartman.
At the opening session, too, reports
will be received and committees ap-
pointed. Rev. Dr. Ze Barney T. Phillips,
rector Of the Church of the Epiphany,
and chaplain of the Senate, will give
the invocation.
At l o'clock there will be two
luncheon meetings. At the Mayfower,
Francis H Sisson, vice president of the
Guaranty Trust Co. of New York, will
Government" and at the Willard
Joseph v. Mckee, president of the board
of aldermen and formerly acting mayor
of New York, will have as his topic
The Task of Municipal and State Gov
ernments"
At 3 o'clock. the delegates will break
up into smaller groups for round-table
conferences.
viii Outline Legislative Needs.
To the fore of these will be the first
of a series Of discussions on the ma
tional transportation problem. At the
chamber Chairman Rayburn of the
House Interstate Commerce Committee
will outline legislative needs, while the
views of shipper, railroads and their
competitor, the motor vehicle industry,
will be treated respectively by Col. c. o.
Sheriff., former officer in charge OF pub
lie buildings and public parks here, who
now is a vice president OF the kroger
Co. of Cincinnati; R. v. Fletcher, gen
eral counsel, Association OF Railway
Executives, and T. R. Dahl, wee presl-
dent, White Co., Cleveland.
OF particular interest to Washington,
in view of the current renovizing move
ment,, will be a session devoted to
property maintenance and repair, over
which Walter j. Koehler, Wisconsin
lndustrialist and former Governor OF
that State will preside. There will be
three speakers-Dr Frank Parker OF
Philadelphia, president of the Phila-
delphia Federation of the Construction
Industry, on residential properties;
Charles F.. Palmer of Atlanta, president
of Palmer, Inc. on business properties,
and William H. Meese of Baltimore,
Western Electric executive, on indus
trial properties.
There will also be session at the
Willard on foreign commercial policy,
where the participants will have before
them a report from the Foreign Com
merce Department Committee, headed
bv James A. Farrell of New York. dis
approving of Buy American" move
ments.
Urges Vigorous Trade Policy.
Another special committee studying
the tariff situation, particularly in re-
1ation to most favored nation treat
ment and bargaining tariffs, has rec
commended that the chamber impress
upon the State Department the i'm
portance of vigorous foreign CONNER
cial policy for the safeguarding And
advancement of our foreign trade and
the desirability of systematic review
of our trade position on our leading
foreign markets"
Distribution problems will be studied
at session to be held at the Mayflow-
er, as will problems of natural resource
industries.
A round table at the Chamber build
ing will take up reductions in state
and local expenditures.
Two diners are scheduled tomorrow
night.
The American Trade Association Ex-
ecutives will hold forth at the May
flower, where Secretary Roper will be
snong the guests. Right Rev. James E.
freeman, Bishop of Washington. Will
srcaE.