Evening star., 1933-09-10
COAL CODE, VEXES
0FF|C|ALS0 Of \. R. A..
Regulation of Trade Prices
end Strikes Are Also Among
Problems.
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code transferred to the National Re-
covery Administrator or his subordinate
appointees."
III these are not primary functions
Of management" it continued, we are
1t loss to know what are"
Contrary to Recovery Act.
Turning to labor provisions, the state
nnent said the code proceeds effectively
to exclude from important provisions for
its administration If not from every
provision any collective bargaining ex-
cept that entered into by organized
employees or unions" That, 1t added.
and Johnson's Interpretation thereof.
protest against the 1894 basic wage
scale for Western Kentucky was raised
yesterday by George B. Harrington of
Chicago, president Of the Chicago Will
mington & Franklin Coal Co.; Charles
G. Hall of Terre Haute, Ind, general
manager Of Walter Bledsoe & Co; D
w. Buchanan of Chicago, president of
the Old Ben Coal Corporation, and
George K. Smith Of Columbus, Ohio.
president Of the Sunday Greek Coal Co.
They maintained it was unfair for
the administration to give the Western
Kentucky operators q Sl.16 per day
wage advantage over Illinois, Indiana
and Ohio producers. They also object
ed to some of the administrative fea-
lures Of the code
The committee held long confer
ence with johnson yesterday afternoon
c. F. Richardson of Sturgis KY, rep
resenting the Western Kentucky opera
tors. on the other hand said the 1894
rate was too high to permit continual
tion Of operations in many places.
Sees 10000 in Breadlines.
Forty thousand people will be in
Kentucky breadlines this Winter II they
make us pay that scale" Richardson
said.
The Appalachian operators worked
far into the night on their list Of OBJ
jections. While they refused to dis
close the exact language, they said the
objections would follow the same gen.
eral line as those submitted by the Ala
bama producers.
The retail code. ranking just behind
coal as one of the primary N. r. A.
problems, as being drawn contained
cost-plus section which, except in spe
ciflc instances, would require retailers
to sell goods at 10 per cent, or more,
above the cost Of the items.
special committee was set up by the
Cabinet Industrial Recovery Board to
study the cost-plus question, Repre-
sentatives of several Federal depart
ments and the Agricultural Adjustment
Administration were put on the COM
mittee.
Whiteside said if this committee was
functioning this week. he would be able
to talk with it before submitting his
recommendations to johnson on the
retail codes cost provision
Meetings With Strikers.
In advance of hearing set for this
week for the silk code. meetings with
striking mill workers were In progress
in New York, and Senator Wagner.
Democrat. of New York, chairman OF
the Labor Board, and E. F. McGrady,
an assistant administrator. planned to
go to Cleveland tomorrow.
Agents of the board already are IN
the Ohio city, and Malcolm Muir, a
deputy administrator, hurried work on
the transit code to help ease the situa-
ton This program was expected to go
to johnson tomorrow and thence to
President Roosevelt Immediately. It
was understood this agreement in final
form would be about as submitted.
A fresh conflict, reminiscent OF the
automobile code deadlock, was in pros
pect for shoe manufacturers. who plan
ned to insist upon the merit labor clause
in their code, despite an earlier declara-
ton by johnson It would be excluded
from future trade charters. |
The merit clause provides that
workers may be employed, promoted:
discharged or retained regardless OF
rrion afiliations. c. C. Williams,
deputy administrator, who will open
hearings on the shoe code Tuesday, said
manufacturers would be asked to with
draw it. but the employers asserted pri-
vately the request would be declined.
Heavy Schedule of Hearings.
This week the N. R. A. will have a
heavy schedule of hearings. On Monday
proceedings will be resumed on the
construction industry's master code and
subsidiary agreements. simultaneous
with hearings on road machinery anu
umbrella makers codes.
Tuesday, with the coal hearing, there
will be those for the silk textile, en-
broidery. boots and shoes. motion picture
exhibitors, distributors and producers
and the rock crusher industry. We'd
nesday millinery will be taken up, and
on Thursday mems neckwear, marking
devices, paper and pulp, paperboard. and
chemical industries, cement and crown
cap makers hearings come Friday.
An equally heavy schedule already
has been set for the next week.
Yesterday the administration had
granted notifications Of the blanket
Blue Eagle agreement to new list OF
seven trades: Cane sirup. packing and
mixing, powder puff. wiping cloth,
academic costume, waterproof paper.
retail optical and freight forwarding
industries. A general adoption OF the
40-hour week was provided, with slight
shading of the Blue Eagle agreement
wage requirements in some cases.
This brought to approximately 800
the authorized notifications granted to
groups which brought in codes for hear
ing and were allowed to substitute their
own wage and hour proposals Tor the
Blue Eagle terms.
Numerous appiicatiOns for such sub