Evening star., 1933-06-07
bill SEEN SAVING
| HUNDREDS OF Jobs
Recovery Plan Held Aid to
U. S. Clerks Slated for
FurIoughs.

burroughs.
Administration of the proposed Fed
eral industrial control bill in Washing
ton will save the positions of hundreds
of Government clerks slated for in
definite furloughs under the economy
act, according to friends of the meas
ure.
Plans are known to have been put
forward to bring all Of the Govern
ment'S statistical research bureaus in
close contact with the industrial con-
troll administrator, who will have Of
fees in the Commerce Department.
The basis for the new set-up will be
the Commerce Departments commodity
divisions, which, under the economy
plans for the departments Bureau of
Foreign and Domestic Commerce. were
slated for drastic curtailment. Under
the new plans, it was said, many of
these jobs will be saved
New Jobs to Be Created.
Friends of the measure emphasized
that because of the elaborate Govern
ment statistical set-up already in ex-
istence only a few jobs are to be
created. These will be positions in the
upper brackets of Government employ
ment, such as advisors and economists.
The control of wages and hours for
industry contemplated under the re-
covery measure will be accomplished by
efforts on the part of the administra-
ton to prevent rise in commodity
prices out of proportion to the rise in
wages, according to high administra-
ton sources.
While the primary intent of the bill
is to regulate wages and hours, ad-
ministration leaders have let it less be
known, they also hope by the exertion
OF moral power, to persuade industrial
lists not to allow prices to sky-rocket
faster than the wage level
This, it was said, would involve "open
price lists" in which manufacturers will
record the extent of their sales and the
prices obtained, although not the names
of their customers.
Industries Send Agents Here.
1t became known that five leading
industries-coal, oil, textiles, automo-
bileS and iron-steel-have sent repre-
sentatives to Washington for the pur-
pose of ccnferring with Brig Gen. Hugh
S. Johnson, who is generally accepted
as the adninistrat designate 1t was
said these industries have already shown
themselves not only willing but eager
to cooperate with the Government in
the application Of the recovery bill.
The cooperation of others, it was
said, is anticipated through the processes
of public opinion, just as during the war
"wheatless days and gasless Sundays"
were brought about without ccmpulsion.
Administration sources, therefore, are
encouraged to believe the bill can be
administered successfully, depending
primarily on the voluntary cooperation
of the industries and only seccndarily
on the licensing feature
The aim of administration leaders is
putting 100000 men to work this Sum-
mer in industrial plants, 1,000,0 900 more
in public works projects and foresee
100000 more at work through SYM
pathetic activity in other occupational
channels.
Leaders also assert that with 1000, 900
working and putting their wages into
circulation the depression will be beaten
within year.
Board Will Devise Code.
The bill contemplates setting up in
each industry of board which will de-
wise code OF governing wages and
hours Of work appropriate to that in
dustry. In the formulation of this code
all elements of the industry will be
heard, the group representing the bulk
OF the membership, the dissenting mi
nority and other workers in the indus
try who may not be associated with the
central representative body.
Each industrial group will have a
central executive head, one who has no
financial interests in the industry but
is adept In business practices. qualified
to meet emergencies and diplomatic
crisis certain to arise. Beside him will
sit in every case, a representative of
labor and one of the employer, each
determining to see justice done in his
group
When the code has been drawn up
by these spokesmen for industry, it will
be presented to the President and once
approved, it viii have all the force Of
law. The analogy is with the "law Of
merchants" in England, which never
has been established by Parliament, but
still is the law Of the merchant world.
Will Set Up Reasonable Hours.
while it will DEAL in the beginning,
chiefly with the major industries, there
is no reason to expect that any excep-
tions will be made, and that eventually
every one of the 1000 trades of the
country will be working under the new
system.
1t was said, this will apply even to
retail dealers and newspapers.
The code will set up reasonable hours
and wages for workers in each industry,
not only for the protection of workers,
looking to the end of unemployment
and economic standstill, but also for
the protection of employers who at
present desire to maintain proper wages
and working conditions, but are sub
ject to cut-throat competition from
employers who operate sweatshops and
plants which violate the better in
dustrial standards.