Milford chronicle., 1933-09-08
JOHNSON APPEALS.
FOR NATIONWIDE
BUYING CAMPAIGN.
CCOntiHuea from Fhst Pagel

that practically every employer in
the country is under the Blue Eagle,
that people have gone back to work
in vast swarms and that those who
had work are getting better pay"
There was no employer, he added,
under the Blue Eagle who had not
signed up voluntarily. He denied
that the government was using
boycott campaign to force manufac-
turers and employers into line.
Il may go step further and say
although this Labor Day was the
first objective, we shall not stop.
You cannot stop a movement like
this-you must carry it on to a con-
clusion. 1t is unfair to the loyal
and patriotic men who have put up
the Blue Eagle to permit any COM
petitor to refuse to put him up"
Johnson said that specific figures
on unemployment since conception
of the recovery code were not avail
able, but added that a quick census
was planned a little later by individ-
ual reports to determine the number
who had returned to work under
codes and agreements with the
President.
To labor he emphasized that the
right to organize and bargain would
not be violated. Johnson said that
while employers are not compelled
to agree to any scale of wages de-
manded BY workers, the employees
had the obligation not to attempt to
interfere with free organization.
''If an employer should make
contract with a particular organiza-
tion to employ only members of that
organization" he said, especially if
that organization did not have 100
per cent membership among his en-
ployes, that would in effect be a con-
tract to interfere with his workers
freedom of choice of their represen-
tatives or with their right to bargain
individually and would amount to
employer coercion on these matters
which is contrary to the law"
There are men-honest, sincere,
and unselfish men, who believe that
President Roosevelt's recovery pro-
gram is wrong. They say that the
normal business pact is such a deli
cate mesh of vested rights and es-
tablish standards that if you so
much as touch one web, you may
upset conditions you never dreamed
about. ut is true" Johnson said
that economic laws are natural
laws like the law of gravitation and |
can no more be repealed by Con-
gress than can the multiplication |
table; but just because the law of |
gravitation says that because you |
jump out of balloon you are going |
to get a bump that doesn't mean
that you can't use a parachute"
Economic laws, he added, can be
guided and harnessed.
There have been so many disap-
pointed prophecies in the past four
years that we early decided to in
dulge that habit the real test
will come in the next few weeks. l
don't know what it will show but
that is because cannot be absolute
ly certain what everybody in this
country will do, but one thing I do
lnow beyond any preadventure of
doubt-if everybody in this country
will do his part under the Blue
is if every employer will
live up to the code or agreement un-
der which he got the Blue Eagle
il every consumer will buy under
the Blue Eagle and buy generously
and buy now to the very full of his
prudent needs American business
and unemployment will show the
biggest squirt it has known for years
and we shall be on our way out of
his depression before snow flies"