The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-12
FEAR OF NRA
FAILURE VOICED
BEFORE LEAGUE
Codes Are FIouted, Charge
of Council Director;
Price Cuts DepIOred.

neither are obeyed nor enforced,
Martin NJ Clinton, director Of the
Indiana Council on International
Relations. predicts failure Of the
MIRA unless proper methods OF en-
forcement are found.
Speaking before the League for
Industrial Democracy at the Y. w.
c. A. Monday night. Clinton ex-
pressed a fear that failure Of the re-
Covery program would be followed
by an era Of industrial feudalsm
until the proper means are found
for opposing the present trend.
Clinton based his arguments on
discussions and information gath
cred at the wellesley Summer In
stitute for Social Progress, held re-
Gently at Wellesley college.
Price Cutting Feared
Fear that many restaurant owners
may be driven to deserving the NRA
movement because Of price cutting
in the industry prompted members
Of the district and state recovery
boards to petition the national re-
covery administration Monday for
aid in stamping out the price cut
ting evil in Indiana.
In a joint resolution addressed to
General Hugh S. Johnson, national
recovery administrator at Washing
ton. the two boards asked that In
diana restaurants be allowed tc
operate under the proposed restau-
rant code pending its adoption.
The temporary code under which
restaurants now are operating regu-
lates labor hours and salaries only,
and does not extend to competition
or food costs.
In announcing adoption Of the
restaurant mems resolution, Fran
els Wells. Indiana representative of
the United States department Of
commerce. explained that officials
of the Indiana Restaurant AsSOci-
alton believe that many operators
will be forced out Of the NRA I'M
less they are permitted to enforce
the national code.
Mediation Plans Approved
The restaurant men, according to
Wells. complain that drastic price
cutting is making it almost impcSsi-
bic for many to pay the minimum
wages required by the NRA.
Wells predicted that price in
creases would not be excessive if OPP
orators comply with the submitted
code A plate lunch. for example,
that now sells for 30 cents would be
raised to IS cents, according to
Wells.
Gold or silver stars placed on
MIRA insignia 10 indicate additional
employees hired as a result of the
NRA program is allowed Indiana
employers. according to a ruling re-
ceived from Washington today by
Wells.
The insignia section offers TO OBJ
lection to the plan, provided the
stars are not so placed as to be
sUperimpOsed upon the blue eagle
insignia or its blank background"
read the dispatch to Wells.
BARRIERS Hours Limited
In another dispatch to the local
recovery headquarters the legal adj
wiser to the policy board of NRA
ruled that "one-man barber shops
and beauty shops are limited to
fifty-two hours a week.
The nine members of the state
recovery board were supplied today
with printed lists of towns and vii
lagos in the nine sections of the
state over which each member is TO
have Jurisdiction in the matter of
appointing mediation boards.
Wells sent letters to Seventy-eight
trade associations throughout the
state today. asking their co-opera-
ton in organizing boards of medi-
alton to consider complaints of vio-
lationS Of the NRA by employers.
Plans for each of the nine mem
bers OF the state recovery board to
assume charge of an Indiana dis
trict to set up mediation boards
were approved Monday.
An executive committee. composed
of NJ. NJ. Dunbar. AGolph Fritz. and
Frederick Kroeger. will meet weekly