Evening star., 1933-07-22
RECOVERY CHIEFS
PICKING KEY men
|. TO PUSH JOB DRIVE
Roosevelt and Johnson
Pleased With First Re.
action to Program.
FOUR INDUSTRIAL CODE
HEARINGS CONCLUDED
Campaign to Sign Ups Employers
Will Get Under Way Late
This Month.
By the Associated Press,

President Roosevelt and Hugh s.
johnson today began selecting 600
heutenants to impel toward victory
their unprecedented peacetime program
for putting at least 6,000,o00 idle to
work by September. --2-
Both were said to be highly pleased
by first public reaction toward their
scheme. under which around 5000, 900
employers would sign agreements with
the President to increase pay and put
more people to work by shortening the
hours OF those now employed.
A further molding Of public opinion
behind the plan is looked for when
President Roosevelt on Monday night
outlines 1t to the Nation.
The next immediate step which began
today is the selection of recovery
boards Of seven in each of the Com
merce Departments "a districts and of
additional boards of nine In each State
These units will advise Federal head
quarters on progress and help the cam
paign.
SQuawks to Decide Action.
johnson meanwhile said he plans no
exhaustive set Of regulations governing
application OF the presidential agree
meats which will reach every employer
through the mails on July 81.
Wen administer this through the
squawks," johnson told newspaper men
while seated at his desk, where there
were q number Of National Recovery
Administration posters bearing the
eagle seal and the words I'VE Do Our
Part
Every employer volunteering to pay
the minimum wages and employ the
maximum work gets one of these In
signals to display and put on his goods.
employers who have signed the agree
ments.
II mean" johnson continued, that
when I hear q squawk I'll decide then
what action to take. We haven't had
one protest 80 far"
His plans moved swiftly, while more
deliberate consideration continued on
elaborated fair competition codes fixing
pay and hours for whole industries.
Fsur Hearings Closed.
Hearings were closed on the proposed
shipbuilding. electrical lumber and
cioak and suit codes. The frst two were
left In the hands of administrators for
decision On the last two industries
were still conferring, seeking agreement.
This was true also of the oil and coal
industries, which were trying to unite
ON the competitive practices they VIII
Among the employers who did not
wait until July ~, when the first
agreement blanks will be distributed,
to join the volunteer movement were:
Allied Association bf Motion Picture
Exhibitors.
The United States Independent Tele-
phone Association, representing 5000
independent companies.
The Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co.,
classed by johnson as among the largest
EMPLOYING corporations In the country.
The F1orsheim Shoe Co.
The Northwestern Iron and Metal
Co. and many smaller concerns.
Campaign Opens Soon.
johnson felt that the weight Of pub
lie opinion would be such that no busi-
ness man would want to stay out after
the move gains impetus.
A large stack Of kilograms accumu-
lated In his ofice tn reply to his mes
sages asking the assistance Of chambers
Of commerce and civic organizations IN
shaping the public drive which VIII
begin at the end Of the month.
The campaign to sign up all EN-
ployers in volunteer wage boosting
agreements will actually get under way
In the last few days Of the month and
win run to Labor day.
For the present johnson and his as
sistants informally say only this regard
ing Interpretation Of the blanket code:
Il applies to everybody everywhere
who EMPLOYS more than two workers.
There is no provision for blanket cx-
ception CT any class Of employers and
only individual cases complaining Of
hardship win get consideration.
Organized public opinion and indi-
vidual conscience will be the only COM
pulsion. AL signers pledge themselves
70 speed in q code Of fair competition
to supplant the voluntary agreement by
September /, but the law makes no
provision for presentation Of code by
professional groups such as doctors,
lawyers. architects, specifying only
trades and industries. II professionals
present one 1t will be given considers
tion.
In cutting working hours to IS for
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