Evening star., 1933-07-29
Employment Plan Is Not a
"Share. the. Work" Scheme,
Officials Declare.
HIGHER PAID WORKERS
MAY TAKE ONLY CUTS
Administration to Step in When
Employers Develop Peculiar
Sense Of Justice"
BULLETIN.

II. 11uSu .. OOAlAAcOl, A4lOu0tA 4dA
administrator, arrived at Boiling
Field in an Army plane this morn
ing and Immediately plunged into
the task Of speeding up the emer-
gency unemployment campaign. He
brought with him the proposed code
for the automobile industry.
By the Associated Press.
The Recovery Administration served
notice today that the Presidents volun-
tary unemployment agreement, now be-
ing signed by thousands Of business
men, Is not to become a mere share
the work" movement, with the wages
of present workers divided among
greater number
At the same time, it made clear that
not all more substantially-pa employees
may expect to get as much when their
working time Is cut. A reasonable read
justment is required, its general trend
upward, but actual terms are left to the
employer unless it develops that the
latter has q peculiar sense Of justice"
Then the administration will step In to
see that the spirit Of the agreement Is
lived up 70.
These and other points are covered
in new official interpretations OF the
agreement, made necessary by increas-
ing numbers of questions from indus
trtalists desirous Of signing, but uncer-
require impossible pay roll outlays.
Gen. johnson Returns.
Meanwhile, Gen. Hugh S. johnson,
director of the recovery drive, returned
from Cleveland shortly before noon, ar
irving at Boiling Field in an Army
plane. He Immediately went to his
onice to resume the task of speeding up
the Unemployment campaign.
johnson brought with him the pro-
posed code for the automobile industry
employing thousands Of men.
Asked by newspaper men about his
bile code done on pink paper and said:
Il got what went after"
Johnson was met by K. M. Simpson.
his chief deputy administratr. and
given q quick fll-in on activities during
his day and q half absence.
Simpson reported that an agreement
was being reached on code for the oil
industry, which a committee appointed
by johnson Is rewriting to substitute
for proposals presented by the industry.
Among the other troublesome Ques-
tions In which johnson will be asked to
take a hand Immediately is the split
Walter c. Teagle, head Of the
Standard OIL Co. Of New Jersey, and q
Of the Administrators Indus
trial Board, and q resigned vice presi-
dent Of the company, James A. Modett,
offered a place on the Federal commit
$oo orH vp1,n 1votoy,dc fo oecont
A friend of President Roosevelt, Mof-
fett Is expected in informed Washington
sources to be selected as an administra-
tor for the agreement which the Gov
ernment is to have prevail in the oil
industry.
Will Set Hearings
johnson returned to find his desk
stacked high with reports Of responses
from employers throughout the coun-
try to the Presidents agreement under
which they agree to raise wages and
spread employment by restricting work.
ing hours.
Encouraged, he predicted anew that
the campaign which he expects to put
more than 5,00O,0 900 men back to work
by Labor day would be success.
He cited Cleveland, where he spent
last night. as completely "an N. r. A.
city" and paid tribute to oflcials and
citizens there.
johnson planned to set soon dates for
hearing on the automobile and coal
Codes
The coal code, signed by a majority
Of the industry, was presented only yes
terday and Is tentatively expected to be
taken up q week from next Monday.
The automobile code would bind the
automobile industry to pay minimum
wages from 40 to AZ cents an hour,
upon the size of the city, for
q maximum 35-hour work week.
johnson said he would have to ana
lyze that code before te approved all
its terms, and added his "only regret
is that Henry Ford has not signed
up." It was reported that 96 per cent
Of National Automobile Chamber of
Commerce members had.
Unionization Is Question.
Monday hearings will open on steel.
first of the big industries to bring up
sharply the question Of unionization Of
labor. The code provides an. employe
representation plan which is not ex-
ministration In view Of statements by
ofhcials that no modification Of the
industrial laws guarantee of untram-
meled organization by labor can be
put into any code.
Gathering data for this hearing, Sec
retary Of Labor Perkins spent yester-
day evening In q secret meeting with
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