The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-11

If employers do not agree
to observe the 35-hour week
and $14 wage schedule while
codes are formulated, present
plans call for the fixing a
deadline for submission of
basic codes, after which time
licensing powers conferred on
the government by the re-
covery act would be used.
Plans for the temporary schedule
were formulated at an all day and
all night session of the industrial.
labor and consumer advisory boards
OF the recovery administration
After hours of dispute the 35-hour.
S14 plan was drafted by William
Green and Leo Wolman for labor,
Alfred P. Sloan and Gerard Swope
for industry and Mrs Mary H. Rum
sey, chairman of the consumers
board
Roosevelt May Act Today
The plan will be submitted to
President Roosevelt today. If he
agrees, he probably will lay it before
the country, asking for voluntary
observance of the schedule and call
ing for public opinion to support it.
The proposed schedule is calcu-
lated to give swift boost to pur-
chasing power throughout the coun-
try, even though it is to apply only
to men workers during the prelinai-
nary period. The work week will
be made flexible to permit forty
hours work for a limited period in
emergencies.
To industries which believe a work
week lorA or than thirty-five hours
is essential, the temporary schedule
will offer powerful incentive for
quick agreement on a code.
Fear Overproduction Peril
For as fast as agreements are
drawn for an industry and accepted
by the President, the temporary
schedule will be lifted. The cotton
textile industry, which already has
a code, will operate under it's forty
hour and $13 and SI2 minimum
wage provisions.
For weeks, coal, steel and oil
industries, as well as other basic
groups, have failed to reach code
agreements acceptable to the adj
ministration.
Meanwhile, production and buy
ing have increased to an alarming
extent which administra ton off,
Gals fear will presage another eco
nomic collapse.
1t fears, for instance. that all
possible purchasers of steel will be
well stocked before a steel code is
drawn, and that when the industry
Is ready to operate at last on an
approved wage and hour basis it
will be forced to close mills, instead
OF taking on numbers of unem-
ployed men.
Deadline to Be Fixed
If the government is forced to use
its powers of coercion on tagging
industries, the present plan of
campaign is somewhat as follows.
A deadline will be fixed for all in
dustries TO submit codes.
Those who have not complied at
the fixed time will be given indivi-
dual deadline in order Of their i'm
portance.
Those still not submitting codes
at the time specified would be re-
quired to secure licenses from the Z
government, and to operate under a
code written by the government.
Attempts TO reach an agreement
in the bituminous coal industry have
reached a point where johnson ex-
poets to summon the various groups
unable to agree among themselves
for consideration of the codes al
ready written.
This probably will be done within
the next few days, not under man
datory procedure. but on the basis
Of whatever code is supported by the
largest percentage of the industry.
Steel and oil codes have been