Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1933-07-20

-. then fix the wage
e'so" rates and WORKING
hours for the recalcitrant trades.
These enforced regulations will apply
until the industries present their own
codes.
II 1t Is necessary to adopt arbitrary
codes, these will be based on data
gathered BY the administrations sta,
tistical expert, DR.. Alexander Sachs.
who has already prepared a setup
codifying various leading industries
according to a number of conditions.
They have been rated according to
wage scales existing In various years.
chiefly the boom year of 1929, and
charts have been prepared showing
how far cuts In working hours must
be made to restore a mass OF employ
ment equal to predepression days.
With these data Doctor Sachs has
shown conclusions as to how much
each industry ought to pay In mini.
mum wages, how many employees 1t
VAbh@ W AOcOkD HULL Lie dIIQy Vi
Idle. and how many hours those en-
ployees ought to work every week.
Two important codes received were
those for the lumber and steel Indus
tries. The former pegged wages SO
low and working hours so long that
General Johnson said: 'They are
wholly unacceptable and will. in no
case, be approved" A public hearing
on this code was set for July 20. In
submitting the code, John d. Tenant,
representing the lumber men. declared
1t would result In "a substantial in
crease" In the number OF employees,
and that 1t would increase pay rolls
by more than S1O,0OO,OO0 In the month
OF August alone.
The most extraordinary thing about
the lumber code is that it would set
up AN emergency national commit
tee" to be appointed by the 27 ASSOC
Citations applying for the code. which
would have the strongest of autocrat-
ic power, to the point OF exerting abb
solute control over the entire indus
try.
The cotton textile code was ap
proved by the President and went into
effect.
EOR the purpose OF co-ordinating the
many new functions and new bu.
reaus created since March 4. the Presi-
dent has created a super-cablnet, called
the executive council" similar to the
supreme wal council of World wal
days. Besides the President and his
cabinet, the members are: The direc-
tor OF the budget, Lewis w. Douglas;
the federal relief administrator, Harry
I. Hopkins; the chairman OF the Re
construction Finance corporation, J..
FL. Jones: the governor OF the farm
credit administration, Henry Morgen-
than, Jr. the chairman of the board
of the Home Owners Farm corpora
ton, William f. Stevenson, the adj
ministrator Of the industrial recovery
act, Gen. Hugh s. Johnson the admin
istrator of agricultural adjustment,
George Peek; the chairman of the
board of the Tennessee valley authority.
Arthur e. Morgan; the federal rail-
road co-ordinator, Joseph B. Eastman,
and the director of the civilian con-
servation corps, Robert Fechner.
Frank G. Walker, treasurer OF the
National Democratic committee, was
appointed secretary of the council.
During the summer and perhaps long
er the regular Tuesday cabinet meet
ing is to be superseded by a meeting
of the council.
CECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR
- ICKES, In his capacity as public
works administrator, and his assist
ants are mighty busy these days. for
government departments. states and
municipalities are scrambling for
shares of the So, BOO, 100000 which is
to be spent under the public works
OF the administration. The
proposed federal projects were given
first consideration, and a long list of
them was approved by Mr.. Ickes and
submitted to the President. Applica-
ton from states and municipalities
came next, many of them having pre-
viously been approved by the Recon
structIon Finance corporation and
passed on to Mr.. Ickes.
An additional SIG, 400 OF the
$500, 900, 600 allocated for public road
gifts to the states was approved when
the allotments for Ohio, Massachusetts.
and Utah received the final Indorse-
OF Secretary Ickes and Score
tary of Agriculture Wallace. With the
SO, 33O, 101 already assigned to New
York state. this action means a total
Of $48,606,501 already donated as an
outright grant from the federal treas
ury for road building. Under the al.
lotments Massachusetts gets $6,597,-