The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-02
Blue Eagle Is
 Being Insulted
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 are seeking to display the Blu,
 Eagle and obtain benefits of thu
 agreement without making an!
 real contribution to re-employmen
 and wage increases.
 | Reports from regional officei showed hundreds. of thousands o, | signatures to the agreements
 What the MIRA officials are more anxious to know, however, is tho number of men actually re-em. ployed and the amount of money added to the nations payrolls. This information will be ob. tained through questionnaire tt all employers.
 The great volume of inquiriel reaching the NRA is interpreted by officials as meaning that many employers are seeking exemption from the blanket code through technicalities or by classification as borderline cases.
 There is every intention to ad- minister the blanket agreements with justice to all and with great degree of fexibility that will pre- vent undue hardships to individ- udk CAIS1 RA AoC0s o&S S0AAAS 0A easiness has been aroused by the widespread tendency to cavil over fine points in the general code.
 There really is no occasion for all this questioning" one high of- ficial said.
 Employers will be doing their part if they make an effort to re- lieve the situation in a general way. They know the broad purposes of the agreement-to put men back to work and get more money into the hands of the workers-and to resort to subterfuge or evasions is not in keeping with the great spir- 1t of cooperation which the-presi- dent desires"
 Problems relating to specific in- dustries, notably bituminous coal and steel, occupied administrators as they watched closely progress of the blanket agreements.
 August IA, has been set for hear- ings on the coal code of fair com petition. Until an industry Is brought under q code the MIRA has no Jurisdiction in such cases as the present Pennsylvania coal strike.
 The cotton textile industry plan ming and supervisory committee, the first organization set up under the recovery plan of government partnership in supervision of bus1- ness, is studying complaints of violations of the cotton textile code. It has received numerous reports that mills are imposing extra work on their employees by extending the ''stretch-out" system in violation or
 General Johnson himself heads the committee, he has promised that violators will be dealth with sternly if the charges are borne out. The committee includes both government and trade represent atives and is charged with super yising the operation of the code.
 A code for the hosiery industry was set for hearing August 10. It was submitted by the National As so ociation of Hosiery Manufactur- CTS. claiming to represent 80 per cent of the industry.
 The code limits the work week to 40 hours in productive opera tions. and to 40 hours average over A. period of six months for office employees. Numerous classes sucn as engineers. firemen, electricians, dyers, shipping force and cleaners are exempted. Plant operation is limited to two shifts of 40 hours each per week. In full-fashioned hosiery plants which have been op- erating on a two-shift basis, the shifts are limited to. 36 hours each
 The scales of wages range from s12 to $27.5O a week in the north and SIP to $24.75 in the south, TOT various classes of workers. Tne learners minimum Is $S per week.