Imperial Valley press., 1933-07-26
FOR
EMPLOYMENT
To SUCCEED
| Administrator Johnson States
Response To Roosevelt APP
peal Makes Victory Certain.
TELEGRAMS POURING IN
Pledges Of Cooperation Contin-
ue To Be Received At Capital
From All Over Nation.
TELEGRAMS POURING IN
BY II. o. THOMPSON

by II. -. lHOmfSON
United Press Staff Correspondent
WASHINGTON, July 26. W.P)-
The drive to end unemployment
advanced today on mounting tide
of national support so great that
Hugh Johnson recovery administra-
tor confidently declared victory
was assured.
THE country is at last aroused
johnson said. 1T is an irresistible
march. Nothing will ever hamper
the Presidents program"
The government printing office.
working three shifts, was rushing
to all parts of the nation millions
of copies of the voluntary agree
ments which all employers are ask
ed to sign. Within the next day or
two they will be placed in the
hands of every businessman.
Thousands of kilograms contin-
ued to pile up here, pledging abb
idance by these agreements. fixing
a 35-hour week and minimum wage
of 40 cents an hour for industrial
labor and a 40-hour week and S12-
Sis minimum for office and store
employees.
"They still are pouring in
johnson said in an address, land
they present a cross section of en-
ployees, great and small, so
thorough as of itself to insure
success. The power of this people
once aroused and united in fixed
purpose is the most irresistible force
in the world
Controversies continued to rage
in conferences over the codes for
the oil and lumber industries. john
son, tirelesS former army general.
continued to exert pressure for
quick agreements.
He was faced also with demands
that he intercede to avert further
difficulties between capital and lab
or in the textile, steel and Bit
luminous coal industries.
Complaints Numerous
The labor advisory board has
received hundreds of complaints
of action against union employees
in variety of industries. The
complaints fall into two groups.
l. Alleged widespread discharges
in the cotton textile industry, now
operating under a code of fair
competition.
p. Charges that many union men
are being discharged in the coal
and steel industries, and in many
cases being evicted from their
homes.
For the first group the advisory
board is consulting slow action on
the theory that a revolutionary
change such as the textile code
will require some time to become
really effective. For the second
lgroup the advisory board is urg-
ing that johnson take immediate
faction.
Complaints before the labor board
declare that steel and coal employ
ers, not yet under codes, are pre-
pairing for company union systems
by discharging workers who belong
to outside unions, notably those of
the American Federation of Labor
The board believes johnson has
authority to stop such action with
out waiting for the industries to
come under specific codes. Members
declare that johnson can inform
these employers that they can not
hope to profit by any such pro-
cedure. that any temporary ad-
vantage they might gain will be
taken away when they come under
their own codes.
Johnson promised that difficult
les in interpreting and applying
the general voluntary agreement
for all industries would be cleared
up as quickly as possible He en-
phasizer that nobody needs any
special fixer to get anything from
the Presidents recovery admins
tration. The administration is not
going to go red tape Any man
can get a hearing and can say
what he has to say. in his own
words, in his own way, and If he
does that he will get what every
body else gets-a square deal"