Evening star., 1933-11-22
POLICING Of CODES
TO Be TAKEN OVER
BY N. R. A. OFFICIALS
Enforcement Will Continue
Until Industries Are Ready
to Govern Selves.
JOHNSON ANNOUNCES
NEW CONTROL POLICY
Predicts Early Need for Extension
of Regional Compliance
Agencies.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press
Hugh S. Johnson, in a public state
ment on the subject of obtaining COM
pliance with codes of fair competition,
indicated today the N. R. A. intended
quick transfer of policing of indus
trleS 10 It's own private organization.
The N. r. A. chief warned that until
lndustrys code authorities are able to
handle their own compliance work the
regional structure set up by N r. A.
Will continue to handle complaints and
probably will be materially enlarged
from It's present structure Of 26 regional
compliance directors
1t is anticipated" said johnson.
that as the volume of complaints in
creases, this regional set-up will have
10 pe extended along State lines. and IL
IL becomes necessary, as it doubtless
WILL IN many cases local agencies will
be provided for"
Inc statement by johnson was the
nrSt formal word on a police policy
since he completed the Midwestern tour.
Whlch convinced him that compliance
conditions were bad and "chiseling"
generally prevalent
To speed up the work of establishing
enforcement agencies
johnson appointed a special Code Au
thorlty Organization Committee within
N. r. A
Responsibility was placed upon the
oepQty administrators to inform N r.
A compliance Director Robert w. Lea
as 10 which code industries have
agencies capable of self-government.
johnson made clear that the pre-
vlouSIy announced plan of having no
labor question referred to an industrial
agency unless it has adequate repre-
sentatlon OF the workers will be con-
tinued.
Coal Code Completed.
The N: R. A. has finished the organi-
zatlon OF groups to administer the soft
coal code and turned today to the pro-
mulgatlon Of orders for its new COM
pliance set-up
Involved in the latter plan, it was
Said, was establishment Of units, DOS.
slbly IN each county, to correlate various
phases OF the recovery program. The
primary Intention, however, is to obtain
compliance from thousands of en-
ployers who are not yet under code
authorities or local N. r. A. boards.
Inc bltumlnouS coal agencies were
completed with announcement late last
industrial and Labor Boards and the
various divisional and subdivisional
code authorities.
To the Industrial Board. which will
observe operations of the code as a
whole and recommend changes if they
find any are needed President Roose-
velt named Gen. Johnson. Fred G.
Tyron, Bureau of Mines economist. and
George w. Anderson of Boston, Fed
eral district Judge.
Other Codes Completed.
johnson expects to take the news
paper and motion picture codes, to-
gether with possibly eight or ten more,
down to Warm Springs, Ga. for presi-
dental approval He declined to discuss
details of these codes or their still un-
settled points. A code for radio broad
casting may be included in the batch.
He hopes to have N. r. A. fix the ex-
tent of mark-up or labor allowance
provided for in the minimum price
clause Of the retail drug code. but not
for the general re,ail trade. since the
latter has not requested action
In answer to questions yesterday,
Johnson said that so far as he knew.
he would not meet Henry Ford at the
Warm Springs Presidential cottage, as
rumored perSistenly in recent DAYS.
He also reported the Employer-Labor
Committee he assigned to work out a
compromise on the construction codes
made very great progreSS-more than
I ever dreamed Of" but he warned it
had taken months to iron out COM
parable situation in the coal industry.
oscar B. Ryder. imports division
head, was named ~ R. A. representa-
tive on the State Departments Execu-
tive Commercial Policy Committee,
which johnson said was intended to
prevent applications for higher duties
or embargoes being granted "in cava-
her fashion" regardless of commercial
relations abroad.
further point disclosed by john
son was that, after the Presidents re-
employment agreements expire employ
erS not under codes will be expected
to maintain the agreement terms if
they want to keep their Blue Eagles
He did not suggest any administration
pressure to dissuade the non-coded from
taking the eagles down.
Expect Half by First.
The expectation now is that half the
industrial groupings of the country,
including virtually all the important
ones, will be under codes by the end OF
the year.
johnson said the question of exclud-
ing skilled wages from codes. now the
policy of N R. A.. on the contention
that 1t is not the Governments func-
ton to create wage scales, merely to
limit minimums, was being seriously
debated" in view Of the intense demand
Of labor for such scales in the con-
struction codes and others.
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