Evening star., 1933-08-02
MAJOR BUY DRIVE
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SAYS GEN JOHNSON
Start of New Expansion in
Government Program to Be
When Time Is Ripe.
LEADERS OF NATION
MODELLING OPINION
Industrial Control Administrator
Takes Plane to Harrisburg.
New Codes in Force.
BY the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
major buyers drive to assure that
purchasing power bolstered bv the
~ Il. A. wage-raising, job-creating pro-
gram Will be used to its utmost in
stimulating national recovery was
promised today by Hugh S. johnson.
pilot Of the industrial control machine
just before he left for Harrisburg. Pa
to make an address
This significant expansion of the
Government push to obtain better times
will be started when 1.-The time is ripe"
he said, and was taken to mean as soon
as industry and business have COM
piled in sufficient volume with the terms
OF the voluntary Unemployment agree
ment and Of the permanent codes Of
fair practice to put millions of new
money into the country's pay rolls.
The movement Of industry and busi-
ness to join the N. R. A. campaign con-
tinued in full swing, fresh reports from
all over telling of mounting totals of
signed agreements.
Mobilizing Of Opinion.
To speed it, the administration put
underway general mobilization Of
campaign committees Of State. regional
and community leaders to awaken full
public support.
Meantime, johnson spread the appli-
cation of codes by declaring in force
pending final determination "a agree
ments submitted by the electrical man
ufacturing, radio, bedding, rayon weav-
Ing and rayon yarn manufacturing in
dustries.
The electrical and two rayon codes
have been examined In public hearings
already, but have not been finally pro-
mulgated.
The others still are to be taken up
in hearings, their dates not yet formally
set.
The blanketed industries, the admin
istration said, now employ 25o, 900 and
should be able to absorb at least 10, 900
more.
Under the modified agreement, e6ec-
tive at once, all units Of the indsutries
covered may apply the labor terms Of
their own code in place Of the Presi-
dents voluntary agreement and still be-
come eligible for the Blue Eagle tnsig-
MIA. Already the bulk Of the country's
retail trade, employing millions, has
been extended the same opportunity.
Goes BY Army Plane.
For his Harrisonburg tip johnson
used War Department official plane
Just as he did on recent dash to De-
troit to get the automobile industrys
code. He expects to be back late to-
day
Behind him he left in progress hear
ings on codes for the cotton garment
and shirt industry, the millinery trade
and cash iron soil pipe industry.
Also in progress were negotiations for
adjusting terms Of the steel and oil
codes, while his deputies were engaged
with great numbers of industrial dele
cations seeking quick action on agree
ments to bring them into the fold.
Acceptances Expected.
As city after city blossomed out with
blue-eagle posters attesting compliance
of merchants and business houses with
the higher wage, shorter work week
terms of President Roosevelt's volun-
tary agreement, recovery officials looked
for acceptances from other leading citi-
zens invited by kilograms to form
boards.
The administration began compiling
totals of those employers who, already
numbering in the hundreds of thou
sands have joined the movement in the
purely voluntary, pre-campaigning
stage.
A big boost in the total was expected
to result shortly from application OF
the two retail codes now in temporary
force pending hearing set for August
Is. Subscribers to these win the blue
eagle and get their names on the honor
roll Of signers by filing certificates OF
compliance.
Rallies to Be Held.
Shortly, however, local committees
will get the word to take the field first
with rallies, then with a door -to-door
canvass of business establishments to
bring in those which have not signed
and to make sure that the others are
living up to the pledge.
Two new codes were on the boards to-
day for public hearing, one covering the
cotton garment and shirt industry,
major division Of the textile field, the
other on cast iron soil pipe Continued
was examination of code for the mil
linery industry in which labor employer
arguments over wages and the COM
petitive situation between Eastern and
Midwestern cities had shaped up as
major issues.
I'VE know hat unless your goods are
moved off your shelves you cannot keep
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