The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-07-25

House study before the telegraph wires into Washington were jam med with messages pledging sup port of big corporations, small businessmen and consumers.
 An official of one telegraph com- pany estimated the number of messages for Mir Roosevelt would reach 10000 before the morning was far advanced. His company held three times the usual number of employees to handle the stream of responses that came in during the night.
 He said he could recall no such response to q presidential appeal since Woodrow Wilson in 1917 kind of war.
 Calling for the cooperation of the entire public as well as em- ployers, MT Roosevelt explained the unemployment campaign in standing of the Forgotten man."
 "The proposition is simply this:
 "If all employers will act to- getl,er to shorten hours and raise wages, we can put people back to work. No employers will suffer. because the relative level of com- petitive cost will advance by the same amount for all. But if any considerable number should lag or shirk, this great opportunity will pass Us by and we will go into another desperate winter. This must not happen"
 That is the gospel that will be hammered home in every city and hamlet of the land. The prcsl- dents address set the keynote for thousands of speakers and cam paign workers Under direction of tho recovery administrator who carry on the drive to obtain every employers signature to agreements settine a minimum wage of $14 a week for industrial labor and $15 fer white collar" employees.
 The chief executive warned of penalties in tho law for the lag gards but added that "I am now asking the cooperation that comes from opinion and conscience. These are the only instruments we shall use in this great summer of- fensivc against unemployment.
 But" he explained, i've shall use them to the limit to protect tho willing from the laggard and to make the plan succeed".
 The publjc's duty. ne empha- sized, is tol support businessmen who abide by the agreements.
 : "In war. in the bloom of night attack, soldiers wear a bright badge on their shoulders to be sure that comrades do not fire oh com- rades. On that principle. those who cooperate. in this program must know each other at glance. That is why we have provided a badge of honor for this purpose, simple design with a legend. We DO Our Part" and I ask that all those who join with me shall display that badge prominently" Likewise. ho explained, a "roli of honor" of cooperating firms and individuals will be displayed in the postoffice of every town.
 "ff all employers in each com | petitive group agree to pay their workers the same wagcs-rensofl- able wages--and require the same | hours-reasonable hours = then higher wages and shorter hours will hurt no employer" Mir Roose- welt declared.
 Moreover. such action is better for the employer than unemploy- ment and low wages, because U makes more buyers for his prod uct. This is the simple idea. which Is the very heart of the tndustrial recovery act.
 "Oh tfe basis of thls simple principle of everybody doing things together, we are starting out or l ,xn xs,t1 alto al ntn |. pioyment. It will succeed if our people understand it-in the big | industries, in the little shops, tr the great cities and in the small villages. There is nothing compli- cated about 1t and there IS nothittsl particularly new in the principle It goes back to the basic idea oi society and of the nation itself that people acting in a group can ac- complish things which no indi- vidual acting alone could ever hope to bring about"
 Mir Roosevelt illustrated the ben efits of united action by pointing out that the textile code wiped oui child labor at one fell swoop whils mo employer acting alone wal able to wipe 1t out"
 If one employer tried it," ht said, For if one state tried 1t, tn. costs of operation rose so high tha, 1t was impossible to compete witt the employer or states which had failed to act. The moment tn. recovery act was passed, this mon. strous thing which neither opinior nor law could reach through year. of effort went out. fin a fash" | Turning again to the blanke code for all industry, MT Roosevelt Observed:
 | "rhis agreement has alread, brought flood of approval iron every state. and from 50 wide { cross section of the common call ing Of industry that know it il fair for all. It is | plan--deliber ate, reasonable and just--intendet to put into effect at once the mos Important of the broad principles
 which are being established, indus