Evening star., 1933-09-19
Retail Price Regulation Tenn
porariIy Sidetracked by
Administrators.
$780, 900, 900 A YEAR GAIN
IN PAY ROLLS PREDICTED
Roosevelt Revises Labor Union
Clause in Signing Soft Coal
Agreement.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
N. r. A. officials, probably including
Administrator Hugh S. johnson, tomor-
row will give the steel industry's oper-
alton under a code of fair competition
its first official study.
Temporarily sidetracking the price
control issues of the retail trade code,
biggest immediate problem Of the or
ganization, the top men Of the N. r. A.
will go to New York for meeting with
the directors of the American Iron and
Steel Institute, which is the code au-
thority for the industry.
Kenneth M. Simpson, deputy admin
istrator in charge of metals and min
ing; Donald r. Richberg. the general
counsel, and DR.. Alexander Sachs, chief
economist, will 60.
Price Control Discussed.
Today economists and legal experts
OF the N. r. A. were pushing forward
studies upon which is to be determined
the final administration policy toward
the application Of retail trade groups
Tor minimum price control in their
lIldSLeI COOe.
The N. R. A. said it understood
original estimates that code operation
would add S64,000,000 to the annual
steel pay rolls were proving too con-
servative and the increase would be
nearer $100,000.00O a year.
Since a preliminary meeting with
ofhcials several weeks ago, the Steel
Institute virtually has revised sales and
price procedure to bring prices from
various types OF mills to a uniform
basis for like products
For instance, plate, bar, strip and
sheet mills hitherto have been turning
out like products with different prices.
while in the future strips turned out
by sheet mill will sell at exactly the
price for the same size strip turned
!. out by any other kind Of mill.
Must Submit Statistics.
The N. R. A. also pointed out that,
unoer the sef-govern1ng provisions of
the code, the steel men are obligated to
give the industrial control official access
to statistical and other records from
which they will have an opportunity
TO analyze how satisfactorily the new
method of operation Is working out.
Steel. officials said, is regarded as one
industry which, because of its highly
| integrated character, offers exceptional
, opportunity for successful self-regula-
tion.
President Roosevelt's pen last night
made the coal code effective October 2.
But before he signed. the Chief Execu-
tive made certain alterations. Including
elimination Of a provision that organ
lied labor claimed sought to interpret its
collective bargaining guarantee under
the recovery law.
Because 1t is evident" Mr.. Roose-
Velt said, that attempts by those SUBJ
mltting codes to interpret section 7 (a)
OF the national industrial recovery act
have led to confusion and misunder-
standing, such interpretations should
not be incorporated in codes of fair
competition.
Therefore, paragraph (b) of article
must be eliminated without, by this
exclusion. indicating disapproval in an1
way OF the joint statement of the ad.
mlnlstrator and general counsel of the
National Recovery Administration, which
has been attached to the code as
schedule b and was incorporated by
reference IN said paragraph (b) Of
article So
Labor Promises Support.
johnson termed the coal code "the
6ACooSSt oSSOl1lkl1SIullcIlL Oh Ills aQs
| ministration. William Green, presi-
| dent Of the American Federation of
Labor, and John L. Lewis. president Of
the United Mine Workers, both OF whom
had opposed the labor language stricken
out by Mr.. Roosevelt, promised every
i possible cooperation to make the code
| success
The President inserted in the coal
agreement a provision requiring the
submission OF all statistical data re-
quired by any Government agency. He
added language to permit him to name
three additional members to the bitumi.
nous coal board, originally planned to
number IA, five of whom would have
been presidential selections.
The price control provision was re-
sponsible for much Of the great i'm
portance attached by johnson to the
retail trade code. What the admins
traitor recommends to Mr.. Roosevelt on
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