Evening star., 1933-08-27

L 1OrmatlOn OF the pubic, Outlln-
ing and summarizing what the
N. r. A. is doing and what it hopes
to do:
The Presidents emergency re-employ-
ment campaign Is one of the activities
which has been devised in order to give
effect to the national industrial recov-
cry act passed by the last Congress. It
Is supplementary to the plan Of code
adoption by various industrial and
trade groups which has for its purpose
the elimination of unfair competition,
the establishment of more equable re-
wards for labor, the spread Of employ
ment and the control of production.
This plan for speeding business recov-
cry is rapidly being made effective, and
the blue eagle campaign does not mean
that there will be the slightest let-up
in the drive to make general the adop-
ton of codes by industries and trade
groups.
The Presidents emergency re-employ-
ment plan Is intended to bridge time
and to bring the Nation out Of the de-
preston more rapidly than II the code
adoption plan we're depended upon ex-
clusively. The Presidents agreement
also covers many business groups that
would not be amenable to any OF the
code agreements.
Drive Opens Monday.
BEGINNING Monday an intensive drive
will be carried on throughout the coun-
try to speed up the blue eagle campaign
and make its benefits Immediately ef-
fective. Some 100000 volunteer work
ers are making block-to-block canvass
in an effort to get every employer In
America under the blue eagle and
consumers insignia in every home.
The Presidents emergency re-en1-
ployment camgaign may be descrloed
briefly as plan to add from 5.0O0,ooo
to 5000, 900 persons to the Nations pay
rolls Immediately through agreements
made with the President Of the United
States by some 100000 concerns or
individuals. employing two or more
persons each.
NAV be made available, it will be neces-
sary. Of course, for employers in many
cases to shorten working hours. The
plan also provides for certain minimum
wage scales, which also in many cases
will mean added labor costs for the
employer.
The Presidents agreement, however,
includes a pledge of cooperation from
the consuming public, and 1t Is thus
anticipated that the employer. while
undertaking q larger expense as the
direct result of his agreement with the
President. will gain added patronage
as the Just reward of his public-spirited
attitude.
Carries Psychological Values.
The fact also Is to be borne in mind
that where all employers act together
to put people back on their pay rolls
or to raise wages, no employer. as the
President himself has pointed out, WILL
suffer because the relative level OF COM
petitive cost will advance by the same
amount for all"
And what is still more important,
perhaps, the Presidents emergency re-
employment campaign carries certain
psychological values that are as price
less as patriotism itself at this juncture
of our economic history. The President
himself made this quite clear in his
recent radio address to the Nation when
he said: "On the basis of this simple
principle of everybody doing things to-
gether, We are starting out on this
Nationwide attack on unemployment.
It will succeed if our people under
stand tin the big industries, in the
little shops, in the great cities and IN
the small villages. There Is nothing
complicated about it and there is moth
ing particularly new in the principle. 1t
goes back to the basic idea of society,
and of the Nation itself, that people
acting in a group can accomplish things
which no individual acting alone could
ever hope to bring about"
Local committees are made up OF the
active heads of the leading business and
,f1
the mayor. These committees in the
thousands Of cities and towns through
out the country were formed following
telegrams and letters sent by National
Recovery Administrator johnson to the
presidents Of chambers Of commerce
on similar trade bodies in every Sec
ton Of the United States.
Blue Eagle Vital Feature.
The N. R. A. emblem, known popu-
larly as the Blue Eagle. is one of the
most interesting and vital features Of
the campaign. All employers who sign
the Presidents agreement are entitled
to display the Blue Eagle with the ini-
tials n. r. A. and the words we Do
Our Part" Merchants, manufacturers
and all others who have the right to
display the insignia by reason of their
having complied with the Presidents S
agreement. are permitted to hang it on
their walls, or in their windows, or on
trucks and cabs. and, II they so desire.
to stamp it on their products or mer-
chandise. It is. in fact. the desire of
the Recovery Administration that all
make liberal use of this badge Of pa
triotism.
Any person in the United States who
wishes to cooperate in the Presidents
emergency Unemployment campaign