Evening star., 1933-08-21
Johnson to Start Campaign
to Place Emblem in Every
Store and Home.
I.QUICK SETTLEMENT SEEN
IN AUTO PACT DISPUTE
Administrator Reveals Plan to Re-
tire as Soon as Program Gets
Under Way.
BY the Associated Press.

Recovery administrators, tubilant
over their success with steel and oil,
today modelled code of fair competi-
tion to bring the great bituminous coal
industry quickly within N. r. AS
widening circle.
At the same time, Hugh S. Johnson,
N. r. A. chief, pointed his aides for
the big drive-the house toulouse,
store-to-store canvass that starts next
Monday with the objective of placing
Blue Eagle in every window and in
suring victory in President Roosevelt's
Unemployment campaign.
johnson himself, it was learned au-
thoritatively. has tentatively fixed mid
November or the end of the year at
the latest, to retire from the post he
holds.
By then he expects his emergency
turn to private industrial life as an
associate of Bernard NJ Baruch. with
whom he has worked since World War
days. A permanent administrator will
carry on in Johnson's place.
Turn at Once to Coal.
As soon as President Roosevelt ap-
| proved codes for the basic steel and
oil industries late Saturday night,
Johnson and his aides turned inlmedi-
ately to coal, a stumbling block for
weeks.
When a committee of IS coal oper-
ators were unable to agree again yes
| terday, johnson started writing his own
| code to place before them today The
coal men will be able to suggest amend
| ments to this trade charter but they
will not be permitted to renew their
| wrangllng.
The outstanding difficulty surround
| ing the drafting of a coal code was the
| question of minimum wages. johnson
has been told that miners throughout
the country were expecting IS day
wage, with some slight differential for
the South and that labor strife would
be likely If any smaller wage was pro-
| vlded. On the other hand, he has been
| told by large part OF the coal 1nduS-
| try that the SIS day wage would mean
their economic death.
Frank E. Taplin, a Cleveland railroad
and mine owner, conferred with john
son this morning, but declined to dis
cuss the conversation. Taplin has been
among the operators supporting the
SIS day wage advocated by the United
Mine Workers of America. He also
!
firm hand in dealing with the industry
and get out code as soon as possible.
! Auto Men to Return.
| Conferences are to be held this week,
probably tomorrow or Wednesday, with
| officials of the automobile industry.
Indications were that the open shop
and maximum hour issues raised by the
automobile code presented last week
will be satisfactorily and speedily set
tied.
| Enrolment of steel and oil under the
| N. r. A. was regarded by johnson as
the crux of his task TO get the major
| industries signed up under hours short
en1ng, age-increasing agreements With
that done, he announced plans for
launching the campaign, patterned
after the Liberty Loan drives, to take
the Blue Eagle into every store and
home.
National figures, including Alfred E.
Smith. John D. Rockefeller, jr., and
j Speaker Henry T. Rainey, will take part.
One million five hundred thousand VOL
unteer workers already have been or
ganized for this drive, as we'll as to
check up on employers and uncover
violations by those who fail to increase
wages and add new help
| AZ SOuCS ANON AppiUtcu
Codes for IA industries have been ap-
| proved, including four of the major in
dustries, cotton textiles, lumber, oil and
steel. In addition, more than 100 are
operating under temporary agreements,
II approved yesterday. Within the next
10 days, 81 hearings on permanent codes
will be held.
| Oil leaders today were interesting
themselves in the makeup of the COM
| mittee of Is to be appointed within
week by Mr. Roosevelt to administer
the new oil code with its modified price
control regulations and provisions for
| limiting marketing.
At the same time, steel officials be-
| gan the important changes in operat-
| tionS required of them, one of the first
tasks being the preparation and filing
with the Iron and Steel Institute of a
list of prices.
| Recovery officials today awaited sub
mission of new code of competition
for the boot and shoe industry, repre-
senting compromise between rival
| groups of manufacturers.
| A committee representing the Ma
| tional Boot and Shoe Manufacturers
Association worked on the final draft
of the code and indications were that
it might be presented to the Recovery
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accord was reached Saturday on the
major points in controversy.
Representation at Issue.
The final issue to be settled con-
cerned representation on the co-ordi-
mating agency to be set up for the in
dustry. In its original code, the ma
tional association set itself up as the
co-ordinating body and was accused by
the American shoe manufacturers
group, composed mainly of owners of
small plants in the West and South,
Of attempting to dominate the indus
try. The new code is expected to pro-
vide representa- ton for both groups.
Labor leaders prepared to attack the
wage and hour provisions of the new
cod when hearings open.
johnson partially confirmed his re-
firing plal.s in answer to a query.
Il don't want any political job" he
said. And I have a living to make.
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