Evening star., 1933-08-04
johnson Urges
Public to Be
Patient.
PROMISES TOUSE
PRESSURE LATER
Study of Benefits of
Law Started by
Leaders.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Two weeks leeway was decreed
today by Hugh S. Johnson, recov-
cry administrator, before sane
tioning pressure on business and
industry to comply with Presi-
dent Roosevelt's blanket wage and
employment agreement.
In conference with newspaper
men, the administrator said a Pc
riod of time was necessary for
business houses to adjust their
personnel to new wage and hour
levels, and until this transitional
period is ended, "the public must
be reasonable"
At the same time Johnson
warned that no "recalcitrant mi
nority" would be permitted to hold
up the recovery program.
Asked if there was likelihood Of the
teeth" Of the recovery act being
utilized if small groups did not go along
on the program within their industries
after a specific code has been adopted,
johnson said:
"It's not likelihood, it's a dead Ger
tainty."
Compulsion Undesirable.
He added, however. that the whole
aim Of the act was to avoid the use Of
compulsion.
No police organization in Washington
to prevent violations of the Presidents
agreement by business which have in
dicated compliance and obtained the
Blue Eag,es is contemplated.
johnson said this would be left to
public opinion in each community and
he added that will be enough
Asked If 5-and-10-cent chain stores
would be given q separation from the
already existent retailers code SO they
could operate on a different hour and
wage basis, the administrator said mo"
He said the important steel code upon
which hearings were held last week
was now going through a period OF
analysis OF the enormous mass OF data,
and that it would be a week or 10 days
before a proposed final code could be
submitted to employers and Spokesmen
for labor
The teeth" in the industrial act
comprise the power the President has
to license industries. If some concerns
refuse to abide by code adopted to
cover their field, Mr.. Roosevelt could
refuse to license them to do business.
Success Beats Expectation.
The six-week-old industrial control
movement already has spread so far
over the American map that officials
directing it admit 1t has outrun their
expectations.
They are planning soon a stock-tak-
ing to measure in terms OF new jobs
made and wages increased for those
now at work the actual results OBJ
tanned
Only a handful of binding. perma-
nent codes of fair competition have
been put in force by the Recovery Ad-
ministration. The spread Of the pro-
gram has come partly through the
voluntary presidential re-employment
agreements now being signed by indi-
vidual employers, through putting into
effect, pending hearings, the labor
terms Of many codes advanced by busi-
ness and industrial groups.
The latter process has spread the new
experiment in industrial relations over
employers Of so many millions Of wage
earners that officials estimate that
something like one-half the business
ano industrial workers of the country
and possibly even more-either are
reach of them.
Pending appraisal. no one would
hazard today definite estimate Of work.
ers affected, or Of new pay roll values
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