Evening star., 1933-07-25
THOUSANDS PLEDGE
Nd FOR RECOVERY
eAief Executive Encouraged
by Response to His Plea
to Nation.
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have not already done so-the big fell
lows and the little fellows-shall at
once write or telegraph to me personally
ut the White House. expressing their in
tention of going through with the plan.
They did, big fellows and little. One
OF the big ones was Harvey 8. Fire
stone, who pledged to put the program
into effect Immediately.
While the mass movement was o.,
beating the gun on the campaign which
gets under way officially day after tomor-
row and seeks to have 5000, GOO men re-
employed by Labor day, with increased
wages for those who now have jobs,
johnson and corps of lieutenants
worked away at a collection Of dif1cult
problens-continued and new hearings
on codes of fair competition, complaints
OF widespread discrimination by indus
tries against union SympathlzerS, puz-
Fling requests for interpretations OF the
blanket re-emplovment agreement.
The Administrators Labor Advisory
Committee sought Johnson'S consent to
issuing a public warning to employers
who discriminate against and discharge
workers of union tendencies.
To deal with demands for clarif1ca-
ton of the blanket CODE" q special
committee headed by Gen. Thomas H.
Hammond, new director of the re-
employment campaign, was set up to-
day. Questions should be sent direct to
him. and will be answered personally.
Selfish Interests Warned.
The Presidents address served clear
warning that selfish interest is not going
- x~> Lot eto in he n .
employment drive, and that he Is salts
ned the blanket agreement is fair to all
There are. Of course, men, q few OF
them, who might thwart this great COM
mon purpose by seeking selfish advan-
tage," he said There are adequate
penalties in the law. but I am now
asking the cooperation that comes
from opinion and from conscience.
These are the only instruments we shall
use in this great Summer offensive
against unemployment
But we shall use them to the limit
to protect the willing from the laggard
and to make the plan succeed"
With this statement he joined the fol-
lowing:
You can look on every employer who
his part, and those employers deserve
well of every one who works for a
living. It will be clear to you IS 1t
Is to me- that while the shirking en-
ployer may undersen his competitor,
the saving he thus makes Is made at
the expense Of his countrys welfare"
It was a deliberate urging to patronize
only establishments on the roll OF
honor" those that have the right to
display the blue eagle with the legend:
I'VE Do Our Part"
The President needed number Of
requests for . word to labor against
stirring up strife:
while we are making this great
common effort there should be no dis
cord and dispute. This Is NO time to
cavu or to question the standard set
by tbs universal Agreemsnt. II u
time for patience and understanding
and eo-operation.
The wof4srs Of this country have
ytghts under this law which cannot be
t&Ren away from them, and nobody will
be permitted to whittle them away. but,
on the other hand, no aggression is
now necessary to attain those rights. B"
Dissemination Seen.
Meanwhile, however, reports Of wide
spread determination against union
kation of labor in many industries set
industrial administration officials to
considering means Of ending strife be-
tween workers and employers.
Dr.. Leo WoMaan, chief Of the Labor
Advisory Board, said there was every
indication Of prejudice being shown,
with employers dhcharging and other
wise hampering the unionizing which
Is specifically authorized in the re-
covery act.
These reports came into the Ofdce OF
Gen. johnson along with protests from
interests in Detroit, San Francisco and
Denver against the provisions OF the
blanket voluntary wage-raiS1ng ana
hour-lmiting agreement proposed by
President Roosevelt.
From the Detroit Retail Merchants
Association came long telegram to
johnson asserting . 48-hour week was
the shortest the mercantile industry
should employ and predicting that the
40-hour limitation specified by the
Chief Executive would unduly raise
costs to the buying public. Also they
sought consideration Of minimum
wages below the SIS to $l2 for junior
employees, who, they said, received less
than that even in 1929.
The garage division Of San Fran
cisco's Automobile Repair Association
said the blanket agreement would bank
rupt garages because Of competition
from private garages, all-night parking
lots and inability to enforce municipal
ordinances. This telegram said San
Francisco garages have been working
floor men 80 hours q week for 20 years
and are now paying as low as $40
weekly.
johnson 70 Get Problem.
From Denver, the Sweetbriar Shops.
Inc, said the code would work un-
bearable hardShipS on small. struggling
merchants in towns from 5000 to l5.-
900 population serving strictly agri-
cultural areas.
Last nights radio address was Presi-
dent Roosevelt's third heart-to- heart
talk to the people of the Nation since
he became President. He spoke from
the oval room of the White House over
q Nation wide hook-up of both large
broadcasting chains. He started at $50
pm. and finished half an hour later.
He started this important message
to the people by giving brief sum-
mary of the fundamentals OF his ao-
ministrations planning for national
recovery He wanted the people to know
at the start, he said, that all Of the
proposals and all the legislation since
March have not been just collec-
ton of haphazard schemes. but rather
the orderly component parts of con-
nected and logical whole He stated
that long before his Inauguration he
was convinced that individual effort
and local effort and even disjointed
Federal effort had failed and of neces-
sity would fail, and therefore round
ed leadership by the Federal Govern
ment had become q necessity both OF
theory and of fact.
Such leadership. however, had its
beginning in preserving and strength
ening the credit of the United States
Government, because without that NO
leadership was possibility" Mr.
Roosevelt explained. For years the
Government had not lived within its
income. The immediate task was to
bring our regular expenses within our
revenues That has been done"
He then explained why it had been
necessary to spend billions for an