Imperial Valley press., 1933-07-21
PRESIDENT CALLS ON NATION
To COOPERATE ON MIRA PLAN
Launches Appeal To Employers For Emer-
gency Drive To Provide Work For Millions
In Unemployed Ranks.

and 250,000 and 20 per cent wage
increase in towns of less than $500
provided this does not require more
than $12 a week
4. Factory or mechanical workers
limited to 35 hours per week until
Dec. 81, with the right to work 40
hours per week for any six weeks
within this period. No worker shall
be employed more than eight hours
in any one day. Forty cents an hour
shall be the minimum wage unless
a scale lower than that was in eff
feet July is, 1929, and in no case
shall less than 80 cents an hour be
paid.
5. Prices must not be increased over
the July price except whers made
necessary by increased costs or
taxes.
6. Flexibility is provided to avoid
working hardships in particular
cases where limitation on hours OF
skilled labor would reduce produc-
ton, but time and one-third must
be paid for all work in excess OF
, the maximum hours.
T. The voluntary agreement will
cease to apply to any industry upon
approval by the President of its
code of fair competition.
8. September is fixed as dead
line for the submission of codes. The
President will fix dates for hear
irgS arbitrarily unless industries
are heard from by that time.
Post Offices to Aid
Post offices throughout the coun-
try will be used to get the agree
mentS before every one OF the coun-
trys more than 100000 employers.
Every employer will receive a form
by July 81.
Accompanying the Presidents ap-
peal and the form of the so-called
blanket code" was bulletin No. 3,
issued by Administrator Johnson.
This provided for creating of one
district recovery board of seven
members for each district of the
department of commerce, to be
appointed by the President. The
"a district managers of the de-
board secretaries. Each board will
consist of one person prominent in
each of the following activities -
manufacturing, retail trade, whole
sale trade, banking, farming, labor
and social service.
Each state will have a recovery
board of nine members, appointed
by the President and serving with
out compensation. They will repre-
sent commercial, industrial, labor
and civic interests. Serving with
the state boards will be state recov-
cry councils, whose function will be
to recommend organization activity
to the boards and devise means OF
perfecting and strengthening the
MIRA organizations.
There is no force here except
conscience and opinion" said the
bulletin. This is an appeal to those
good instincts of our people which
have never been sought in vain. But
it is not a ballyhoo campaign. The
plan is new; the agreement is not
simple and thorough public pro-
gram of explanation is needed and
will be carried out. After four years
of hopeless and seemingly helpless
suffering and inaction, it would be
unforgivable not to open to the
country the char<e it now has un-
der this law to unite once more to
overcome an emergency, and, it
may be, to defeat depression.
This is test of patriotism. 1t
is time to demonstrate the faith OF
our fathers and our belief in our
selves"
The bulletin described the Pre-
sident's unemployment drive as "a
truce on SelfiShneSs."