The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1933-09-01
RECOVERY DRIVE IS
!. PUTTING AN END TO
LABOR BY CHILDREN
Those Under rs Barred From
Industry as Million En-
pIoyers Sign Pact

Washington. Sept. 1.-P-Chilc
labor was history Friday In hundred.
OF thousands Of business establish.
ments.
Every signer Of President Roosevelt.
Unemployment agreement-estimatec
by NRA officials at around 1000 900
was pledged not to employ children
under Is years. Other hundreds, fun.
ctioning under codes and modified
agreements, similarly were pledged
though In some instances allowed tt
employ children from IA to Is outside
school hours.
Marking the day. too. was definite
start by the MIRA on a second import
consolidation and reorganization fol
the problems to succeed the whirl.
wind Blue Eagle drive.
Hugh 8. johnson, recovery admin.
istrator, told of his reorganization in.
tentionS after the resignation of bud.
ley Gates, the assistant administrator
representing industry. because OF diff
ferences of opinion with his chief.
johnson said his personnel shifting
plans and Gates retirement were moi
related, but used the occasion to dis
close he carefully has picked men fol
key jobs In what he predicted will be
"a cream organization"
Deal With New Problems
This reorganized NRA will deal with
the barely scratched problems Of code
administration. including such Ques-
tons rs price control, the adjustment
Of labor difficulties. the operation oi
code. authority committees. higher
purchasing power for wage and salary
earnerS and the abolition Of destruc-
tive competition without monopolistic
suppression Of small units.
completion Of codes for the soft coal
and retail trade industries. Officials
worked feverishly to prepare these for
President RooSevelt'S signature, but
final action was set for after Labor
Day.
just how many children were af-
fected by the Blue Eagle Friday was
not estimated. but 1890 census figures
showed 1877 ,62l persons between 10
and Is years OF age gainfully en-
ployed outside OF agriculture.
With volunteer workers winding up
the weeks intensive campaign, John
son reported that certain towns have
gone clear over the top, not only with
100 per cent cooperation on the part
Of employers who have signed the
presidents agreement but also by
consumers" In his telephoned ad-
dress to Detroit's MIRA celebration
Thursday night, he added:
More Than q Theory
1T makes me personally feel that
MIRA Is approaching high produc-
ton point. :. The plan right now ID
something more than theory. It Il
actually working In most Of our larg-
est cities and In thousands Of smaller
communities"
In announcing the resignation Of
Gates. johnson said differences Of
opinion over policy and interpreta-
ton Of the law had arisen between the
two.
One cause Of the dissension was In
d1cated BY memorandum submitted
to johnson by Gates on the labor
question In which Gates said the con.
employers association, both essential
! provocative, are inconsistent with
the spirit Of the act.
Gates proposed q vertical union
y each industry consisting Of organi-
xAtton BY crafts to establish and
maintain differentials Of wages among
Jutting prominently among NRA
difficulties were the continued silence
OF Henry Ford toward the automobile
code, which becomes effective Sept. 5
ana the labor'S persistent criticiSm Of
That codes language permitting hir-
ing and firing on merit basis. Ford
mad unit! Tuesday TO qualify for .
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