Evening star., 1933-08-21
COAL CODE RUSHED
TO OPEN WAY FOR
BLUE EAGLE DRIVE
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Rut I will be here until the job is
done"
He has said repeatedly that nothing
would suit me better than to walk right
out that door"
johnson, when called by President
Roosevelt to undertake the grinding
task of ending economic chaos. en-
listed only for the duration of the
emergency.
Sees Goal by Mid-Fal.
1t is said by source close to the
administrator that by the middle of
the Fall he expects his goal to have
been reached.
Two dates were set originally by
johnson as milestones in the program
OF the recovery program: First Labor
day, by which time he expects to have
the bulk of the Nations employees under
permanent codes or temporary modified
presidential Unemployment agreements
with millions Of new jobs created: sec
ond. December 81, when the re-employ-
ment drive is scheduled to end
But the drawing of the steel and oil
industries under a code has wormed
itself in as key date. Faced by these
powerful industries with their ramified
financial connections, johnson was rep
resented a< believing that the winning
or losing of this battle last week would
marx the turning point in the recovery
program. And it was won.
Will Go Back With Baruch.
Once codes for all industries have
been established. with purchasing power
turned upward. johnson intends to turn
the long time job of administration over
to some one else and return to his in
dustrtal life as an associate Of Baruch,
with whom he has been affiliated since
World War days when they labored to-
gether on the War Industries Board
Accompanying Johnson's exit will be
some of the other key men of the
hastily thrown together organization.
Edward F. McGrady, assistant admin
istrator for Labor and former legisla-
tive representative of the American
Federation of Labor, has been appointed
Assistant Secretary of Labor. but will
retain his post until November IS in
the N. r. A.
take his place, McGrady said no one" "
adding that our job will be completed
by then"
Richberg Anxious to Quit.
Donald r. Rlchberg. counsel for years
for the Association of Railway Labor
Executives, gave up lucrative private
law practice at Johnson's insistence to
aid in the recovery program. and he is
anxious to return to it.
All of these plans are dependent, of
course, upon the course of the N. r. A.
program to end the economic emer-
gency. AS for the permanent admin
iStration, this is the view of Gen. John
son, who largely drafted the recovery
act:
II have said many times that the
object of this act is not a long term
proposition, but it is to see if you could
improve the chaotic conditions that
exist in some industries, and the vio-
lently fluctuating conditions which ex-
ist in industries due to seasonal and
cyclical variations, the theories and fall
lacies to which great many men have
subscribed.
Cites Textile Progress.
'It is going to be tried in these in
dustries and permits them to come in
and say what they will do to iron out
destructive tendencies in their own
groups. That had been overlooked
They will be given that opportunity.
Look at the cotton textile industry
That has been degrading labor and
bringing down living conditions until
the present time Now they think they
can swing themselves out of it. One OF
the greatest things they have tackled
was the wiping out of the sweatshops
Now If that succeeds and it has got
two years to be tried, suppose that
the good that remains in this ect will
continue and the bad will die by ex-
perience. At least we will have q
chance to get away from professional
conjecture and get down to whether 1t
lives or not. If it is good it lives, end
II it is not, 1t will die"