Evening star., 1933-08-07
NR. 4. IS SEEKING
TOSETTLE STRIKES
'Jvrns Efforts From Coal
Workers to Movies and
Hosiery Mills.
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too fast for purchasing power-that
more goods were ing manufactured
than could be bought.
Temporary Agreements Offered.
Temporary agreements with the Presi-
dent to raise pay and shorten hours,
pending development of permanent codes
Of fair competition with the same ob1ec-
tive. were offered business and industry.
Yesterday johnson looked over the
score sheet He found five induStries-
cotton textiles, coats and suits SNIP
building. electrical manufacturing and
wooden textiles, each employing thou
sands - operating under permanent
codes.
He found 26 other groups working ad-
ditional thousands. functioning under
the temporary agreements. That was
enough he concluded. so he sent his
first buy now message to Cleveland
mass meeting.
Continuing through the week. speakers
will emphasize that same message
Through their pleas will run this line
spoken by Johnson:
Turn your money into things be-
cause almost before you can draw a
breath the things you want will be worth
more than the money you can save by
not buying
Labor Board Meeting.
Meantime. today, the new presidential
board named to arbitrate labor dlmcul-
ties was called into its first meeting, tC
make preliminary surveys OF causes be-
hind various strikes. big and small, and
the attempt to arbitrate the causes into
nothingness.
Such arbitration. by another group
brought an official end to the Pennsyl-
vania bituminous coal mine walk-out
Some miners stirred by communists and
still Scared. dubbed and wounded
said President John L. Lewis of the
United Mine Workers Of America, are
hanging back. But he predicted that
after they thought 1t over they would
return to work.
In today'S picture there alS) was g
personal promise by President Roose-
welt to business men who have contra, Is
with the Government that the contracts
would be adjusted to allow for rising
prices.
Wherever adjustments can be made
under existing law I shall recommend
that they be made" he said In state
ment issued through the recovery ad-
ministration In other cases
I shall recommend that the next Con-
gress. meeting in January, 1884. take
action giving authority to the eXecu-
tive departments to provide
for recompensing such buyers who have
in good faith and fundamentally CO.
operated with the administration OF the
national industrial recovery act :.
He asked that Governors. mayors and
other chiefs of local governments take
similar action.
To retailers making local agreements
to cut hours of operation, Johnson sent
a warning that they must take care OF
lose the Blue Eagle.
Their temporary code. he reminded
was approved with the understanding
that the average hours of retail store
operation should be kept around 63.
The proposal to shorten hours is In
violation of the Presidents re-
employment agreement, he messaged
the Indiana Retail Grocers' Association
Reconsideration of the provisions OF
the temporary. retail codes and pos
sible withdrawal of insignia will be
necessary Immediately if community OF
concerted action to shorten store oper-
atlng hours is taken"
Johnson's Address.
The address by johnson. delivered
from Washington to a mass meeting
at Cleveland yesterday follows. in part
whether man is worker or an
employer. we are all consumers. 1t is
what We buy and have and use that
makes the increased business upon
which the whole program depends. No
employer can go on increasing pay
rolls without increased business. We
are buyers and the part of buyers is
now to buy or this plan will be 8
failure.
You ought to buy because buying
supports your job. But there is another
reason These higher wages will make
higher prices just as sure as the sun
sets and it will make them soon. II
you don't want to start buying at once
because buying is your part in the COM
mon purpose. you should start because
buying just now is the best business
you could engage in.
Turn your money into things be-
cause. almost before you can draw 9
breath, the things you want will be
worth more than the money you car
save by not buying.
This is no time to hoard. 1t Is nc
time to save money. 1t is a time tC
get things. Buy the things you need
Spend for unemployment. If you don't
spend now and get something you will
spend later for taxes and doleS and gel
nothing.
VIII Help UpsWing.
"On the other hand. if you do buy
now you will help to start the upward
spiral of business and make your jot
secure.
Where should you spend? Can there
be any question? You should spend
under the Blue Eagle. If you spend
there you are spending for increased
employment If you spend elsewhere
H., h. - i
employment because you are helping
to destroy the business of the mer
who are paying more for help. you are
aiding those who refuse to do 50.
The usual timid minority which
always opposes a movement of thi,
kind calls this boycott and holds up
hands in holy horror. saying that what
Is proposed will ruin some worthy peo-
pie who cannot do what Is necessary
to get the Blue Eagle
We are making arrangements to lei
man who cannot-really cannot-dC
all things necessary to get the full Blue
Eagle-get one with the white bar across
its breast showing the points on which
that man is temporarily excused.
1t will take another two weeks to at
tend to all this. but when that time
comes no man in this country who i:
really doing his part will have any eX-
cuse for non-membership in N. r. A
al least no excuse good enough to war
rant his asking for patronage at the
expense of those who are making thi.
plan succeed.
With that attended to. it is no boy.
cott for people who are sick of thi:
curse of depression to patronize thost
who are working to get us out of it.
Men Must Earn First.
ITO put it in nutshell, men mus
earn before stocks can earn. That i.
as sound in economics as it is in human
ethics. 1t is not slogan. 1t is bust
ness truth. Upon that truth the Presi'
dents unemployment program IS based
Impressive figures Of what this plsI
may cost some companies have beeI
hetted about. They all speak in terms o1
cost per year II this plan goes to il
aeeningly assured success those figure