Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-08-07
BUYING DRIVE
LAUNCHED BY
GOVERNMENT
Appeals To Consumers To Pur-
chase From Persons Support.
ing NRA Program.
IMPOSTERS THREATENED
Stores Displaying Blue Eagle
And Not Living Up To Codes
Will Be Disciplined.
BY H. o. THOMPSON
United Press Staff COrresDOndenf


United Press Staff Correspondent
WASHINGTON, Aug. 7. - The
government sought to throw new
power behind the national recovery
drive today by appealing to con-
SumerS to spend for re-emloy-
ment' but to buy only from the man
displaying the blue eagle of NRA.
1T is what we buy and have and
use that makes the increasing bus
mess upon which the whole pro-
gram depends General Hugh S.
Johnson, leader of the recovery
campaign said. "No employer can
go on increasing payrolls without
increased business. The part of
buyers is now to buy or this plan
will be failure"
In addition to the launching of
the buy now campaign, busy
weekend at NRA headquarters
brought these developments:
l. Johnson expressed belief that
I'VE will clean up all existing
strikes" under the truce proclaim
ed by President Roosevelt. He said
the arbitration board would begin
work at once to adjust disputes.
There was some anxiety regarding
the threatened refusal of some
Pennsylvania miners to return to
work. President John l.. Lewis of
the United Mine Workers Dispatch
ed kilograms to every local union
in the strike area, warning that fail
ure to abide by the temporary set
Element can only lead to further
distress" and delay sterilization of
the coal industry.
2. Deputy NRA Administrator
Whiteside threatened to withdraw
blue eagles from Indiana grocery
stores which were reported plan
ming to limit store hours to less than
SO hours week.
3. President Roosevelt announced
the government wherever possible
would adjust existing contracts with
private firms to make allowance for
increased costs under the NRA pro-
gram. He promised to ask congress
to reimburse next year those whose
contracts cannot be changed now.
He asked states and cities to make
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4. Terms of the permanent code
for the womens cloak and suit in
dustry were revealed, banning
sweatshop conditions, setting 35-
hour week and fixing minimum
wages of SAT to $14 week for var
iouS classes of workers. The MIRA
estimated the shorter hours would
absorb all the workers normally en-
ployed in the industry.
This is the fifth industry to be
brought under a permanent code.
The others were cotton textiles.
wooden textiles, shipbuilding and
electric manufacturing. Hearings
were scheduled today on codes for
the wallpaper and corset industries.
General Johnson's address was
transmitted to an NRA mass meet
ing at Cleveland. Praising that
city's cooperation in the drive, he
continued:
"All this movement needs in To-
cal leadership. The plan is sure. We
will be out of the depths of this de-
preston by winter if only each
community will seize the chance
that the President has given it and
make owe strong pull-one long
pull-one pull together"
He gave sharp warning to en-
ployers who are displaying the blue
eagle but have not complied with
terms Of the presidential agreement
or modification authorized for spe-
cific trades.
do not trifle with that bird"
Johnson cautioned. I'm the confu-
sion of early days man may get
away with it. But the day Of reck-
oning against an aroused public
opinion is sure