Evening star., 1933-08-30
Widespreading Draft and
Ford Attitude Chief Topics
in N. R. A. Progress.
JOHNSON TO REPORT
ON CAR MANUFACTURER
Latter Has Until September s to
Get Blue Eagle-Executives of
Big Stores Yet to Agree.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
A delay until the middle Of Lext week
on the master code intended to blanket
the millions of retail workers over the
land was indicated today as Arthur D.
Whlteside, a deputy administrator of
the N. r. A, presented a revised YER
sion 20 retailers representatives for con-
sideration.
work on this wide-spreading wage and
worH-hour code has assumed dominant
Importance at the N. R. A., where the
other chief topic today was the failure
of Henry Ford to indicate his attitude
on the code, embracing the gigantic au-
tomobile industry.
Hueh S. johnson, N. R. A. comman-
DER. had .he task Of preparing a report
Tor President Roosevelt on what he
knows as to why Ford has had nothing
to say so far. The manufacturer has
until September 5 to act, to get a Blue
Eagle.
Retail Text Withheld.
The retailers code was described as
altered in many respects from previous
drafts. but not drastically. The text
was withheld.
AS the group of executives represent
ing the Nations largest retail estab-
Ishments began consideration of the
new charter, which would include drug
glsts and grocers if the details can be
worked out satisfactorily, Whiteside
gave them until next week to agree. He
indicated that on Wednesday the code
was intended to be in the hands of
President Roosevelt for PRONUNCIATION
Some 100000 or more workers are
said to be affected
code of competition for the cocoa
and chocolate manufacturing industry.
approved today by johnson, provides a
40-hour week, with some exceptions
and minimum wage rate of 40 cents
an hour for men,
The minimum wages for woman en-
ployes and boys between the ages of I6
and 10 years were fixed at 80 cents and
81 cents an hour, respectively. Learn
ers shall receive not less than 80 per
cent of the minimums provided for
their class of employees. The code also
provided that where women do sub
stantially the same work as men the
same rate of pay shall apply.
Meanwhile the mass movement to
re-empaey jobless workers and create
billions of new purchasing power under
the sign of N. r. AS Blue Eagle gained
impetus
Administrator johnson. after being
tied to his desk for DAYS on end by
critical problems, himself took the field
to deliver at Boston a major address
OF this weeks Wind-up campaign for
plastering the countrys store windows
with the red. white and blue poster
Of cooperation.
100000 have been removed from the
ranks OF the unemployed and are again
self-supportihg citizens" was Johnson's
estimate as he spurred on the door-to-
door work of the volunteer army of
million and more men and women busy
up and down the land explaining the
II. r. A. agreement and obtaining
pledges Of support
s30,o0C000 More Pay.
Using the 100000 figure, johnson
said it represented at least s3O,0OOO00
more in pay envelopes each week. But
not until after Labor day. with its OBJ
iective Of 100000 new jobs, will the
N. r. A. begin to assay whether its
sweep netted enough employment
and wage boosting to give the Roose-
velt recovery program its desired mo-
mentu1f
Johnson left his office as labor hailed
an end to non-union labor in btu
mmous coal fields and set about plans
to unionlze workers in automobile
plants.
Some N. R. A. officials were saying
privately today that the various wage
raising agreements and permanent
codes Of fair practice do not yet ap-
pear destined to create sufficient pur-
chasing power to keep ahead of higher
prices resulting from the greater costs
which business is undertaking for N
r. A. Expansion of credit through the
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
was planned to help business bear
these higher costs until mass purchas-
ing can take over the job.
Jesse Jones, Reconstruction Corpora
tion chairman, was back at his desk
after comforting with President Roose-
Presidents proposal for advancing
credit to aid N. r. A. industries, but
high official quarters said "fbur or five
days" would be required to complete
detailed plans.
A big drive to develop this mass buy
ing also is intended, but not before
the administration can feel confident
that recovery is we'll established.
But the less sanguine officials ex-
pressed the belief that major auxili-
ary" would be necessary-some measure
of imitation. They we're not ready to
say or intimate. however, that this
thought was in the mind Of johnson or
of President Roosevelt.
johnson Shows Enthusiasm.
johnson himself was all enthusiasm
last night as he addressed the great
parade staged for the Blue Eagle
through the Capitals streets, climaxed
with the planting-amid fireworks and
pageantry down by the shaft of the
Washington Monument-of a slender
oak sapling from Mount Vernon des-
| tined to be an ''ever-growing monu-
ment that commentaries these great
deeds"
Much of Johnson's elation rose from
the gradually resolving negotiations
which had brought the coal industry
to the drafting not only of a code Of
fair practice. but of contracts by which
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