The Washington times., 1933-08-30


GILBERT Government of the United States
has asked him for something besides taxes This sense
of Importance is multiplied thousand times IN WASH
ingon where the delegates of business associations are
met to work out their codes and to plead with the Gov
ernment and when the multiplication goes on to MIL
lion times it makes these people longwnded pompous,
sef-important and little absurd Basicaly however,
the effect is good No matter how they fight against
it, these business have to confess that they are doing
something just at the moment than looking Ior
profit
The Lineup
You may have few dull hours, if you begin on the
outside and work up gradually to the administration and
finally to General Johnson but that is the best way to
approach the whole business. TO avoid personahCeS'
let say that the meetings attended had to 90 with
the code presented by the National Association of Re-
talers of Tin Cups for Lefhanded Blind Beggars mere
after know as the NARTLBB in keeping with M the sP
It's actual members say, onefth of all the retailers
in that line but the others small and unorganNed'
The association speaks for ALL because on one else speaks
And what is the association saying? It is saying:
"We do part and in lower voice, in conference
chambers it is saying "How little do and still
put it the administration" The administration
has asked each branch of commerce and industry to
reabsorb all it's own people, by the simple process of
reducing the hours worked by those lucky enough
to have jobs And the tincuppers says if you reduce
our hours to At per week, will take in all the un-
pare % Statistics to prove that hour week will &C.
complish this-and behind it all lies the awful TACT
that they propose do nothing whatever for those IN
their own field who out of work. not because they
were fired, but because their employers went bank-
rupt In short, they propose to absorb between half
and two-thirds of their casualties
A Snug Argument
Thev bring forth an odd argument. We tincuppers,
they say have not laid off many as other nes
particularly the heavy manufacturers The makers OF
Babv-blue Asparagus Cookers have reduced their
forces by 50 per cent have reduced our selling
forces by only IA per cent; we ought only to take
back IA per cent (The who shut down his shop
is as much out of work the men whom he employed
but he does not figure in the IA per cent 1t occurs
to none of the code makers that the ncuppers have
been lucky, they can, perhaps, reabsorb more than
their share perhaps taking in few hands from the
Asparagus Cookers perhaps giving few jobs not only
to their employees but to their customers One cynlc
openly suggests that for the tncuppers the slogan
under the Blue Eagle should be- eve Do Little as
We Can"
On that the economist who prepared the report
breaks down and says that of course if the trade
wants really to reempoy all it's casualties of the last
four years, it must reduce it's hours to 38. He is
man of integrity; he was hired to defend 47-hour
week but he is relieved at the outburst. And he says
something dsquieng; that he does not think the re-
port he has made will get by the administration He
thinks he had better be and say that At hours Will
give only partial unemployment The tncuppers are
very sad Up to they believed they could put
trick
Are These Our Masters?
Then for endless hours they discuss details nsg-
nificant as to make you tremble for the future OF
American business-if these representative.
Not that they lack purpose. They talk about lunch
hours for sales forces and their object is to give them