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said. would bring more from other big
industries in the attempt to recover
prosperity by what the President calls
"a partnership" between business and
the Government.
The situation now is this: A ma
tCrity of the cotton textile industry
hes agreed upon minimum wages Tor
part OF their employees and the maxi
E,un number CT hours they shall work.
% Per Cent Not Signed.
About % per cent of the industry,
officials reported, have not signed that
agreement. They will be granted hear
lngS this week. If they do not accept.
then the Government will be ready to
demand that they apply for Federal
licenses to operate. These licenses
will require compliance v'ith~the agree
ment. which was made law by preSl-
dental PRONUNCIATION.
The Presidents notifications and
Qualifications of the code left it I'M
changed as to minimum wages and
maximum hours. Nor did they remove
the bar against employment OF chill
dren under 16 or the stipulation that
no cotton textile plant may operate its
machines more than 81 hours a week.
He did direct that the code should
apply to white-collar office employees;
that the amounts by which higher paid
workers salaries now exceed those OF
the lowest paid shall be maintained;
that the industry shall prepare similar
code for cleaners and outside workers,
now exempted: that repair shop crews,
engineers. electricians and watching
crews if employed more than 40 hours
week. shall get time and half for
overtime.
Operative Four Months.
Because this was the first such agree
ment and because conditions are chang
| ing, the President made it operative for
only four months. At the end of that
time employers and workers may be
asked to accept notifications or the
plan may be extended as is.
;u his announcement of approval the
President remarked that after years OF
1ruitless effort" the ancient atrocity"
OF child labor has been eliminated in
ehis industry because this law permits
employers to do by agreement that
which none of them could do sepa-
1stely"
Il can think of no greater achieve
ment of cooperation, mutual under
standing and good will" he added
1t would be unfair to omit word of
communication of this great industry. 1t
has proved itself the leader of new
thing in economics and government.
Chat took faith and courage and pa
E.o:ism Of the highest order They
eave their reward in the result they
have achieved and the example they
As e given
This acceptance of the code came
from the White House only short
time after the President finished a
week end trip On the Potomac River.
Delay of presidential action until today
would have postponed effectiveness of
the plan until July "a. But the fact
that Franklin D. Roosevelt" was writ
ten across the order before midnight
made it operative July 1.-THE second
Monday after PRONUNCIATION.
The President decided upon his
action after reading a report submitted
by Johreon. who had worked all night
Saturday to get it ready. AS the Presi-
dent read. in the presence of johnson
and others, he remarked Bully and
"G-eat!"
One presidential limitation forbids
any cotton textile employe to put in
more than 40 hours a week, even
though he worked in two plants.
Anothe- provided that the minimum
pay of S12 week in the South and
$l3 in the North should apply even to
workers doing piece work. Still another
stipulated that the administration
should approve before any worker could
be required to increase his individual
production by handling more machines.
The President likewise directed that
the Planning Committee of the indus
try. before January l, 1884. submit
plan looking toward eventual employe
home
Eo darjdod n from the 90
hour maXimum-for three weeks-ma
chinery in mills that make yarns or
fabrics for rubber tires. He said that
rapproval of the minimum wages pro-
posed by this code is not to be re-
garded as approval CT their economic
suf1iciency" because of possible future
developments.
Difference Explained.
The difference between Northern and
Southern wages, Johnson reported. was
necessary because of variations in the
cost of living. He said that in some
places in the South textile workers get
houses from their employers for as little
as So a week That was the reason
for the presidential direction that
plan for home ownership be drawn.
Johnson told the President. likewise.
that around 100000 we're employed in
textile mills IN June. but that if pro-
duction reached the 1929 level, the new
code would require employment OF
$4,000. Minimum wages in the South
Very recently were So to $3.50; in the
North. 50 to $3.50, he asserted.
He found. too, that it would take
kl32l a week in the North to give tex
tile employees the purchasing power they
had in 1929; a little less in the South.
The new plan. he reported, will bring
an average wage increase Of 80 per
cent, a reduction of hours of more than
25 per cent
Even as this code was approved coal.
lumber steel, cleaning and dyeing and
many other industries we're getting their
agreements ready for submission.
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