Evening star., 1933-08-13
Modified Agreements for
Five Big Industries Go
Into Effect.
CODES FOR MAJOR LINES
ARE STILL HANGING FIRE
Temporary Wage and Hour Pacts
Promulgated for Employers
of Four Commercial Units.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
A multitude of additional workers
yesterday were swept within the en-
brace Of the N R. AS Blue Eagle, but
the problem Of fastening codes of fair
competition under the Nations major
industries still hung perplexingly over
the national recovery program.
For five important industries, Hugh
S. johnson. the administrator, signed
into effectiveness a modified prsiden-
tial re-employment agreement. fixing
wages and hours which employers may
adopt to obtain the Blue Eagle pending
completion Of permanent codes.
These were designed to increase the
Nations purchasing power by millions
Of dollars and put thousands of workers
back on jobs through their provisions
for maximum hour regulation and
minimum wages
They affected the electric light and
power, gas utility-including natural
and manufactured gas-telephone, can
ming and construction industries
100000 Workers Affected.
In addition. temporary wage and hour
agreements were promulgated for en-
ployers IN the paper and pulp, fruit and
naVorlng syrups, garter, SuSpender and
belt, and marking device industries.
In all. more than 100000 workers
were affected, N. R. A. estimated.
Carrying above the three score and
ten mark the number of industries for
which temporary wage and hour pro-
visions have been provided-in addition
TO the six permanent codes-the CAM
paign still left untouched the steel, oil,
lumber, automobile, coal and other
basic industries. employing millions Of
men, except for temporary wage and
hour provisions in effect for petroleum.
Here is the status:
The automobile industry has submit
ted a code and hearing date has been
set for August 18. Henry Ford has
gwen no indication yet of his attitude.
Steel Evidence Studied.
The steed code has been through
hearings and the evidence is now being
annotated. Some time will probably
be required before Deputy Administrator
K. M. Simpson is ready with his report
for johnson. An agreement then will
be sought from the industry. Robert
Lamont, president of the Iron and
steel Institute, has notified johnson the
INDUSTRY can go no further in COM
promises.
The oil industry. the third largest in
the country, IS still far from an in
ternal agreement, with price regulation
and production control the principal is
sues. A modified form of price repu-
latlon for the industry was understood
In authoritative circles today to be con-
templated by the administration in a
program to be presented to the indus
Try wednesday in a continuation of
hearings. Meantime a wage and hour
agreement is in effect
Inc lumber industrys code is vir.
tually ready for presentation to John
son by the deputy administrator. Of
ficials expect President Roosevelt to
get 1t soon for signature
The bituminous coal hearings upon
more than a score of rival codes pre-
sented by various segments of the in
oustry ended yesterday with an agree
ment apparently far away and the
labor provisions revolving about the
collective bargaining principle of the
recovery act still unsettled
Court Action Hinted.
This question of just what the guar
antee of collective bargaining is going
to mean in actual operation-whether
IL WILL ueNelOp ulO an attempt 10
unionize the Nation or initiate in the
future against national organization
and toward companyby company bar
gaining is to get thorough airing be-
fore the coal code is completed. Some
operators have limited at court action
to prevent their being forced to accept
outside unions.
Despite these obstacles yet to be
overcome and President Roosevelt
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