Evening star., 1933-09-09
F|NANc|ER CHARGES
NON UNION MINES:
HOODW|NK JOHNSON. .
Appalachian Operators Stall
and Fill Bins, Says Frank
E. TapIin.
PITTSBURGH terminal
HEAD STORMS OFFICE
N. 3. A. Chief Announces Serious
Di&culty Bridged Over.
Hearing Delayed.
BY the Associated Press.

0edIlnk UelayeQ.
BY the Associated Press.
Frank z. Taplin, Cleveland financier
and president of the Pittsburgh Ter
minal Coal Co., stormed into Hugh s.
Johnson's Office today, vowing he
would tell the recovery administrator
he had been played for a sucker" by
non-union Appalachian coal operators.
Doesn't the general know he's been
played for sucker?" Taplin asked re-
porters as he strobe by.
If he doesn't" he said, as he burst
into the administrators outer private
ofdce without announcing himself to
the secretary, I'm going to tell him"
Charges "Stalling."
Taplin, who has insisted upon speedy
completion of the bituminous coal code
ever since the recovery act was passed,
maintains that the Appalachian opera
tors are Sailing" while they are min
ing large stocks of coal at labor cost
less than they will have after the code
becomes effective.
1S oAco HAS IuSlStcQ tIlaC OOuLueIu
miners are entitled to as much pay as
those in the Northern fields.
John L. Lewis. president Of the
United Mine Workers, was conferring
with johnson when Taplan arrived.
The Cleveland operator was notice.
ably impatient, tapping the floor with
his toe and putting vigorously on q
cigar, while he waited for his audience,
Now they tell me there are going to
be changes in the CODE" he said. What
are they going to be now?"
Taplan referred to the administration
code made public Thursday night.
Difficulty "Bridged."
Appalachian operators notified john
son yesterday the code was so objec-
tionable as whole that there was little
use detailing their objections.
After a three-hour conference with
the Appalachian groups Representatives,
however. johnson said "a difficult situ-
alton has been bridged over" and that
negotiations would 60 forward.
Various groups of operators today
were listing their objections.
The date for public bearing on
the administration code, revised Ia
the light of the objections, was post
poned until Tuesday at 2 pm.
have received no word either from Ap-
palachian operators or the Recovery
Administration about resumption Of
work on union labor contracts for COM
mercial mines in the area.
Lewis Uninformed.
Although johnson said last night
negotiations would be resumed after
their suspension yesterday, Lewis had
received no word today.
The operators asked the miners to
suspend the contract negotiations after
johnson made public the adminiStra.
ton code Of fair competition.
Meanwhile, newly raised objections Of
the N. r. A. Consumers Advisory Board
to price control provisions in codes Of
competition also engaged the attention
Of the industrial administrator.
Retail Delay Aasked.
The board asked the master code for
retail trade be held up pending in
veStigation by special committee into
control, which 1t regarded as a major
question Of policy.
However, Deputy Administrator
Arthur D. Whiteside-in charge Of the
retail codes-had no plans for delay
and regarded it essential to get the
master charter, covering dry goods,
drugs food dealers and all other classes,
into force as quickly as possible.
At the same time the National La
Dor Board was taking an active hand
in adjustment Of two strike situations.
The first had called out thousands Of
workers in silk mills of the New Jersey
area and was being dealt with by
meetings In New York, preliminary to
a hearing on the silk code which is
to be held here next week.
The other, the Cleveland street car.
strike, brought plans from both the
chairman, Senator Wagner of New
York, and Edward r. McGrady, as
sistant N. r. A. administrator, to be
In the Ohio city next Monday. Agents
OF the board already are on the
ground.
Transit Code Hurried.
To help quiet the Cleveland situa-
tion. Deputy Administrator Malcolm
Muir was hurrying the transit code,
with expectations of presenting it to
johnson Tor Transmission to President
Roosevelt Monday. The understanding
today was this agreement would 20
through substantially as originally sub
nitted.
The retail code, ranking now behind
coal as the next major N. r. A. prob
lem, Is being drafted with a cost-plus
provision which. except In specified In
stances. would require retailers to keep
their prices at or above q figure repre-
senting 10 per cent more than the cost
Of the goods to them. This is regarded
as q minimum limit only, since the
average cost Of retailing Is estimated
BY johnson and his assistants at not
less than 10 per cent.
However, special committee has
been ordered set up to study the cost
plus question, with representatives OF
the Agricultural Adjustment Admins
tration and several Government depart
ments serving on it.
This action was taken by the cabinet
Industrial Recovery Board, which ad-
vises johnson in his administration.
Whiteside said II this committee were
ready to function the first Of next week
he would be abls to consult with 1t be-
fore suulbitting his recommendations ON
the cost provision.
The latest coal controversy started
yesterday morning at meeting of Ap-
palachian commercial operators who for
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