Evening star., 1933-09-23
NEWSPAPER CODE
CHANGES ASKED
Labor Would Include Report.
ers in Minimum Hours, Re.
gardless of Pay.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press
organized labor argued todav before
tne N. II. A. that the daily newsnanar
code presented by the American News
paper Publishers Association Failed
70 comply with the intent and purnose
OF the national recovery act" by ex-
t;g tiuulng 1air trade practice stipula-
Labor's argument was presented by
International Typographical Union WAC
he proposed number of amend.
henS TO the code, among them:
mat no person under I6 wears of
age oc employed, even to deliver news
. papers. - "S
That mechanical workers be put
on 5o-hour-week schedules, with time
and one-half for overtime and M
sniit longer than 7la hours.
mat the minimum hours apply
also to reporters, regardless of whether
they make s35 a week or more.
That the free press provision b,
deleted. -'-ot' ~
Joint Board Urged.
That the provision giving the en-
ployer the right to bargain individually
with an employe without interference
oy an outside third party be eliminated.
mat the code be administered by a
yolnt conference board comprising four
empioyer ana four employe representa-
yves as well as one other individual
el 70 be named by the President"
Howard said the A. N. P. A. did
eot propose code of fair competition
Antil IL became necessary to do so for
business reasons"
Ihe association" he added. WAS
not the first to file a proposed code. but
was among the last of the important
INDUSTRIES to comply with the re-
Howard quoted from what he called q
confidential note the A. N. p A sent
TO editors about July 81 conveying the
Recommendation that newspaper pub
nshers do not at the present time pre-
pare or subscribe to code"
Inc association was making a sur
Vey, Howard said.
40 Hours Called Inadeuuate.
Discussing the temporary agreement
under which newspapers now are func-
tloning, calling for 40-hour week as
Ill the proposed permanent code, How
ard said his unions survey showed that
agreement brought an increase of only
14,188.
Nothing could more clearly and con-
cluslvely indicate the inadequacy of the
40-hour week proposed in this code to
meet the existing conditions of unem-
ployment." he said
The LABOR representative termed the
so-called free press provision "a re-
quest for special privilege and consider
alton that has been extended to no
other industry"
The employer -employe individual
bargaining section, he said, is IAN at
tempt to secure governmental approval
OF a plan to compel union men to sac
riflce their right to collective bar
gaining
Recalling again that the existing
temporary agreement calls for 40
hour week with A hours in any six
weeks in any six-month period, How
ard said:
Yet leading metropolitan daily
newspapers which display the N. r. A.
emblem prominently on the front page
have at no time reduced mechanical
forces from 48 hours as worked pre-
vious to signing the agreement"
Hearing May End Tonight.
Before today's session began, Dr..
Lindsay Rogers, deputy N. R. A. ad
1IlullStldCOl, lOlu ICpOl l1C 11OpCo
the newspaper code hearing could be
concluded tonight.
News writers and other editorial work.
ers had their innings before the N. R.
A. yesterday, with representatives of
the New York Guild of Newspaper Men
and Women requesting shorter hours
and other benefits. Representatives of
the Publishers Association also were
heard. and their explanation of the
code brought charges it countenanced
child labor and was unfair to editorial
department employees.
The A. N. P. A., through Elisha Han
son, general counsel, and a number of
officials, contended the constitutional
guarantee of freedom of the press gave
newspapers the right to stay outside
the recovery program if they so choose.
Threat of Failures Claimed.
The publishers said too, that short
er work week than the 40 hours they
proposed would hasten failure of many
newspaper establishments now on the
verge of bankruptcy.
Alexander Lindey, speaking for edi-
torial organizations in New York, New
ark, N. j.. Boston and Buffalo, asked
a 40-hour, f1ve-day week for editorial
workers exempted from the minimums
established by the A. N. P. A. code.
nc dloO ouSSSStSQ WdSeS u
$50 a week for those with less than a
years experience, $50 for one to two
years and $40 for two years or more
He asked that men who had worked
three years for one newspaper be al
lowed a months notice before being dis
charged, scaling this notice up one
month for each years service to six
months for man employed eight years.
Haywood Broun, columnist for
Scripps Howard Newspapers, explaining
he was member of the New York
Guild, told Deputy Administrator Lind
say Rogers:
Elisha Hanson. counsel for the pub
fishers, has suggested that the proposed
code deals with the freedom of the
press. Mr.. Hanson seemed to feel this
freedom concerned only the publishers.
I suggest it also is matter of i'm
SPECIAL NOTICES.