The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1933-08-17
BUYERS ARE URGED
TO SUPPORT firms
HAVING BLUE EAGLE
Increased Business Will Be
Merchants Only Reward
For Cooperation
CITY SURVEY COMPLETED
Spirit Among Merchants and
Employers Is Exemplary,
Chairman Says

A plea to the citizens Of Bismarck
to support merchants displaying the
blue eagle as protection to those
employers who have enlisted in the
NRA drive was made Thursday by
the publicity committee of the local
recovery set-up.
The committees statement point
ed out that merchants in the cam
paign have agreed to raise wages and
reduce hours for employees, yet they
have not the privilege Of increasing
prices to cover the extra cost.
The merchants only return for the
extra outlay will be increased sup
port by citizens. The committees
full statement follows:
"The committee on publicity of the
local NRA has had many inquiries
as to what protection and support
employers have, particularly local
businessmen, II they sign the presi-
dental agreement. This is a peril
nent question. They agree to shorten
the hours Of labor without reducing
wages, employ additional help to
take up the difference between the
new hours of labor and the hours
OF business during the week and pay
the additional labor not less than
the minimum wages. They are not
permitted to raise the price Of their
goods so as to cover this cost Of extra
labor. The merchant pledges that
he will not raise the price OF his
goods to cover this extra cost. He
thus faces situation whereby he
has an immediate increase of over
head cost and only a probability Of
return from speculative increase
OF business. The businessman has a
right to consider this question and
it Is an important one for him.
Must Support Signers
Here Is where the public comes
IN. AS the president says, il any
considerable portion of the commu-
nifty lags or shirks 1t will seriously
affect the success of the plan. There
Is one very plain proposition present.
ed to the general public. If you want
this plan to succeed, II you want un-
employment reduced, II you want a
decent wage paid to workers, then
you must support those who are
rtsking the extra cost and expense
to put this plan into operation. It
Is just here where the general public
IS invited to sign an agreement and
enroll under the blue eagle-publicly
agree to support and assist those
businessmen who have signed the
presidential agreement"
One hundred per cent success for
the recovery program in Bismarck
was predicted Thursday by A. p
Lenhart, chairman of the committee
appointed to make a survey of the
city to see that all merchants CO.
operate in the plan.
The committee has just completed
its survey, which it began Monday.
The spirit of cooperation among
the merchants and employers is ex-
emplary," Lenhart said, land all will
be in the program"
Another Check-Up Planned
Later the committee plans another
check-up to see that all signers are
living up to the terms Of the presi-
dents unemployment agreement.
Many Of the businessmen so far
have not received full instructions on
their codes or how to proceed" the
chairman said, but when all codes
are completed In the near future.
Bismarck will swing into the plan
100 per cent"
-Four more merchants were among
signers OF the agreement announced
Thursday by Postmaster Walter
Sather.
They were Drs. Priske and Priske,
dental clinic; Davis Grocery Store,
Fossums Radiator Shop and F. w.
Murphy Apartments.
So great has been the demand for
blue eagle cards and other printed
material here that Sather has had
to order more supplies from the fed
eral government, he said.