Evening star., 1933-10-24

would be required to carry enough un-
licensed men to furnish the equivalent
of three watches of eight hours each
day Licensed officers, as executives,
would be exempt.
The code also calls for a maximum
week of 40 hours for Office and clerical
employees with minimum wages ranging
from SIS week in cities of more than
100000 population to S12 in towns of
less than $500.
In its reorganization program, to-
gether with creation Of local boards to
hear price complaints, as provided by
President Roosevelt's executive order.
the N. R. A. will create a regional
network of enforcement agencies under
direction of the score or more repre-
sentatives of the Department of Com
merce who have Offices in the countrys
principal cities.
Their job will not be to "snoop" for
code violations. but to receive COM
plants and seek their adjustment To-
cally. Where this method is not sue
cessful, cases will be taken up in Wash
ington with the trade authorities set
up for the several codesr The Federal
Trade Commission is expected to enter
the picture only in cases Of f1agrant
violations which defy adjustment and
call for judicial handling. This task
was assigned it by the industrial law
itself
AS fast as it can be done, it is the
intention to substitute State repre-
sentatives of N. R. A. for the Depart
ment OF Commerce men, to handle the
compliance work on a permanent basis.
harness for the job, having had re-
gional supervision of the Blue Eagle
campaign
In Washington the reorganization
will take the form of subdivision of the
now huge staff under four ieutenants
whose job it will be to lift a big share
of the routine in supervising the max
ing of codes and their administration
from the shoulders of johnson.
These men, Arthur D. Whiteside, in
charge of service trades and textile
manufacturing; Kenneth M. Simp-
son with metals, mining, chemicals
and related industries; Malcolm Muir
with capital goods" industries or those
producing equipment that goes into
creation of other goods, and c. c. Will
liams, supervising the vast remainder
of unclassifiable manufactures-will not
be given the full executive authority
delegated to johnson by the President,
but will be counted upon to settle all
issues not involving basic policy.
As long as johnson remains, he ex-
poets N. r. A. to be lone man job"
in the sense that responsibility for
every decision will fall squarely on his
shoulders
He intends to retain intact for the
present the structure of advisory boards
representing Industry, labor and the
consumer.
The Office reorganization program,
though not definitely settled until now,
was substantially ready to 60 couple
of weeks ago, but was held up pending
completion of the field enforcement pro-
gram in which President Roosevelt was
particularly anxious TO establish safe
guards for the consumer.
The entire National Labor Board set
up, with its regional boards in key
cities, will be preserved intact to handle
labor disputes arising under codes, so
far one of the chief adjustment ac-
tivitfes under N. r. A.
An integral activity in the Semi-per-
manent set-up now evolved will be
division to help formation of trade as
sociations for the less organized indus
tries and trades. This work now is
being started by Thomas S. Hammond
Of Chicago, who first handled the Blue
Eagle program.
The latter. coming to an end in two
more months, Is gradually being L.
Quidated.