Evening star., 1933-08-13
ROAD CONSTRUCTION in STATES PROMISES FARMERS All
N.R.A. CODE PUTS
1924 TO YORK IN
BALTIMORE
association of Com.
merce Cites Figures
From, 425 Firms.
BY ]. C. DEPONAI.
Special Dispatch to The Star

Special Dispatch to The Star.
BALTIMORE, August 12-Due di-
rectly to the N. R. A. campaign 1924
persons have been put to work by 425
firms in Baltimore during the past 10
days according to @. H. Pouder. vice
president Of the Association Of Com
merce, who said that these figures
were the first definite ones obtained
in the N r. A. drive
These figures do not include at least
1000 men taken on by the Baltimore &
Ohio Railroad from June l to August l
IN the Baltimore area, Mr. Pouder said,
together with an unknown number of
B. 6S o. workers restored from part
time to full time.
The figures also do not include at
least $500 new employees added to the
rolls Of the Bethlehem Steel Co. at
Sparrows Point In the last several weeks
or several thousand workmen engaged
In the $22 900 900 improvement here by
the Pennsylvania Railroad, which in
cludes electriflcation of the road from
Wilmington to Washington,
I'VE have included only those f1g-
ures directly and unmistakably attrib-
uted to the N. r. A. campaign" Mr..
Pouder said. These other figures un-
doutbedly are result Of the Presidents s
recovery program and are actually q
part of the picture of recovery in Bal
timore.
500 Restored to Full Time.
OF the 1924 employees reported as
hired as direct result of the NJ r. A.
campaign in the past 10 days approx
mately 500 were restored from part
time to full time, Mr.. Pouder ex-
planned. He emphasized that this re-
port included only about one-fourth Of
the firms receiving the QUESTIONABLE.
"One Of the surprising things to me, ="
he said, lis that there were no real
kicks against the N. r. A. in the whole
425 firms replying. There were some
mild differences of opinion, but many
enthusiastic Endorsements of the entire
drive.
"A surprising number of firms also
reported that they had maintained their
full force of employees throughout the
past three years. working maay Of them
part time with full-time pay
Mr.. Pouder estimated that there are
now q little less than $4,000 unem-
ployed persons in Baltimore and only
23.600 families receiving unemployment
relief in the past week, compared with
over $4,000 families a little over a
month ago.
S5,903 Under N. r. A. Code.
So far 7,102 agreements have been
received and accepted from employers
in Baltimore and 10,785 from the State
as whole. bringing 85,903 employees
in Maryland under the N. r. A. CODE
The industries represented in this pre-
Siv1o nI,vIA ant.t
banks. bottling works, canned goods,
cleaners and dyers, coffee and tea milk,
chain drug stores, dry goods, electric
supplies, boundaries, wholesale hard
ware, ice cream manufacturers, leather
goods, life insurance, machinery. metal
workers, oil burners, labels, enamel ware,
building supplies, motion picture theaters,
oil and gasoline companies, paint manu-
facturers, paper houses, paper goods,
plumbing supplies, printing, restaurants,
chain food stores, retail merchants, ship
building. shoe polish manufacturers.
sign manufacturers. stationery manu-
facturers, tailors. textile manufacturers
wholesale tobacco and wood and mill
work.
The independent retail grocers and
chain grocery stores have not reported
so far.
Gains in both factory employment
and pay rolls during the period for June
IS to July Is are shown In the monthly
report of DR.. j. Knox Insley, commits
sioner of labor and statistics, made
public this week.
Factory employment in the State was
Ill per cent higher than for the pre-
ceding month, while the combined
weekly pay rolls of factories in the
State showed an increase of 1879 per
cent.
In the Baltimore industrial area fac
tory employment was 81 per cent
higher, while combined weekly pay rolls
were up 14.1 per cent. The figures for
June were 19 per cent increase for
employment, and an increase of 85 per
cent In combined weekly paw rolls.