Evening star., 1933-08-16

proposed by the National Automobile
Chamber Of Commerce opens Friday.
Plans for this were discussed yesterday
with Robert w. Lea, the deputy ad-
miniStrator.
Company Unions Issue.
The issue in steel is the guarantee OF
the recovery acts provisions for col
lective bargaining for labor. and the
Interpretation of them, as opposed to
the industrys policy of operating COM
pany unions and barring nationally
C"ganized unions.
Explaining that he was present at
yesterdays conference as member of
the Labor Advisory Board as well as
on the invitation of Secretary Perkins,
Green contended last night the walking
out of steel leaders was a challenge
to the Government" and added:
The question is whether steel is to
dictate to the Government or whether
the Government is going to set up ma
chinery under the industrial recovery
act and require industry to work with
that machinery"
Shortly thereafter, the Labor Advisory
Board formally protested his exclusion.
Johnson, as retail lumbermen began
formal code hearing. had little to
Say dUOut lHc Opcu uuDDIlIlk vi SHioluct
ing differences between labor and in
dustry. At first he was under the i'm
preston Green was not the labor ad-
wiser assigned to steel
L have never delegated Green TO act
for me in that matter" he said. He
wasn't over there in connection with
my conduct of the National Recovery
Administration"
Explains Remarks Later.
Later, without celebrating upon his
views of Green's charges, johnson is
sued this statement:
My understanding was that Miss
Perkins was labor adviser on the steel
code. I had been so informed by Mr.
Simpson deputy administrator and
Miss Perkins. I had not heard Of the
selection Of Mr. Green as adviser when
was asked about it at the newspaper
conference today and. therefore, assum-
ed that it was an error.
Il now find that he was named by
Chairman Wolman of the Labor Ad-
visory Board on July 81. the day Of the
hearing Miss Perkins had been named
several days before and indeed had gone
on a tour of the steel industry in prep
aration to act as such"
johnson described it as Miss Per-
kins' party and declined further dis
cussion. The Labor Secretary, who con-
tinued in conference with the steel
leaders without Green, made no state
ment.
Conflicting views Of employer and
labor appeared today at the outset OF
hearings on a code for the retail lum-
Der industry.
New Schedule Ready.
Labor was prepared to offer hour
and wage schedules different from
those in the code submitted by the
National Retail Lumber Dealers As
sociation.
The code taken up today provides
for a 40-hour maximum week, with
the exception of executive and super
visory stats, statesmen, engineers. fire.
men and watchmen temporary en-
ployment in case of emergency, and
some seasonal employment.
Detailed wage rates called for in an
amended schedule submitted at the
start of the hearings range from 25
to 40 cents an hour in cities under
$4,000 population to from 35 to so cents
in those over 100000 for special classes
and from Sl4 to $40 week by regions.
The organized labor proposal will
be for SIS a week for a 35-hour maxi
mum in localities under 5000 popula-
ton up to $40 in those of a million or
more. the same minimum hours and
wages to apply to both manual and
white collar workers.