Evening star., 1933-06-20
INITIATIVE PLACED
UPON INDUSTRIES
Control Board Announces 1t
Will Not Dictate
Codes.
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ing the war was secretary of the Cap
ital Issues Committee in Washington.
Assistant for labor-Edward F. Nc
Grady of this city, legislative repre-
sentative for many years of the Amer
lean Federation of Labor.
Chief of legal division-Donald R.
Richberg of Chicago, attorney for rail-
road brotherhoods and recognized
authority in public utility rate litigation.
Chairman of Labor Advisory Board
Dr. Leo Wolman, well known economist
and former member of the faculties of
Johns Hopkins University, Michigan,
Harvard and now of Columbia.
Chief Of research and planning divi-
sion-Dr. Alexander Sachs. economist
and director of the Lehman Corporation
of New York, in charge of the corpora
tion's department of economic research.
Advisory Board Members.
Members of the Labor Advisory Board
named by Secretary of Labor Perkins
include, beside DR. Wolman, the follow
ing: John Frey, metal trades depart
ment. American Federation Of Labor;
Joseph Franklin, president, Interna-
tional Boilermakers' Union; William H
Green, president of the American Fed
Grafton of Labor. Sidney Hiilman, presi-
dent Amalgamated Clothing Workers;
Father Francis Haas. Catholic Welfare
Council; Rose Schneiderman, secretary.
Woman's Trades Union League.
Members Of the Industrial Advisory
Board named by Secretary of Com
merce Roper, include:
Austin Finch, Thomasville, N. c.,
president Thomasville Chair Co. Ed
ward NJ Hurley, Chicago. chairman of
board, Hurley Machine Co.; Louis Kir-
stein, vice president William Filenes
Sons Co., Boston; Alfred P. Sloan, jr.,
New York, president General Motors
Corporation; Walter G. Teagle, New
York. chairman of board, Standard Oil
Co. of New Jersey: Gerarde Swope, New
York, president General Electric Co.;
William j. Vereen, Maultrie, Ga. cot
ton manufacturer.
A third board to be known as the
Consumers Advisory Board to repre-
sent the buying public is yet to be
named.
Hearings to Be Held.
Hearings and Investigations in con-
nection with applications for approval
of codes of fair competition" will be
conducted by deputy administrators, six
of whom have been chosen from among
the group who have been assertive In
preliminary preparations. They are:
w. L. Allen, New York, consulting
metallurgist; Prof. Earl D. Howard,
Northwestern University; Arthur d.
Whiteside, president Of Dun g. Brad
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retired major general, former chief CT
ordnance during World War; K. M.
Simpson, consulting engineer and
metallurgist; Nelson Slater, president
of S. Slater & Sons, manufacturers Of
cotton and rayon textiles.
The function of the deputy admin
istrators, it was explained by Gen.
Johnson, will be to assist him in the
conduct of the hearings in which all
of the units in an ndustry-employer
and workers, both organized and unor-
ganized-wiIl be heard on any proposed
"code of fair competition" to govern
the industry. The code will fix mini
mum wages, maximum hours Of work
and prescribe regulations designed to
eliminate unfair practices Of every kind.
Backed by Industries.
Several days before the bill was
passed by Congress, Gen. johnson
pointed out, more than 400 of the
country's leading industrial, trade and
labor organizations had given assur-
ances and were making definite plans
to take advantage Of new opportunities
under the measure or had officially sig
nified their intentions to cooperate in
its administration.
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representatives of the great iron and
steel, coal, automobile, copper, textile,
garment Industries, in addition to the
American Federation Of Labor. the
Chamber of Commerce Of the United
States, American National Retail Grocer
Association, American Petroleum In
stitute, Dried Fruit Association OF Cali
fornia, Manufacturers Association OF
Connecticut, National Association of
Manufacturers and National League of
Commission Merchants.
Meantime, at the headquarters OF Col.
Donald H. Sawyer, administrator Tor the
public works section of the recovery
act, it was announced that road build
ing and ship construction have been
chosen by the administrator as scouts
for recovery campaign.
Large Fund Allocated.
Already S638,O00 900 have been allo-
Gated for these two activities and the
details are being worked out.
For these, $238 600, 900 have been put
aside to start building the Navy up to
treaty strength and $400,0 100000 for
grants to States for highway con-
Struction.
Assistant Secretary Of the Navy
Roosevelt disclosed that bids would be
opened on July 26 for II new ships to
be built at private shipyards. In addi-
ton, bids on four more destroyers will
be opened nearly three weeks earlier,
on July 6.
At about the same time Sawyer and
his Cabinet Advisory Committee went
forward with their efforts to get the
first of new construction under way
next month.
The committee, headed by Secretary
Ickes, drafted tentative details of policy
and the Interior Secretary said "as soon
as we can get our organization set up
we will begin turning loose the public
works money"
Many Projects Presented.
Delegation after delegation called
upon Sawyer to present proposed prof.
ects from cities. counties and States