The Washington times., 1933-08-05
WAGNER PICKED
! AS CHAIRMAN
Of GROUP
President AccIaims Plan for
Strike Truce as "Economic
+ craftsmanship"


lOckOutS, or aggressive action
during the recovery program.
"It is a document on a par
with Samuel GomperS' memor-
able wartime demand to pre-
serve the status quo in labor
disputes; and in addition to
the signature of the president
of the American Federation of
Labor, it carries the signature
of every great labor leader and
every great industrial leader on
the two advisory boards of the
Recovery Administrator.
Hailed as Craftsmanship
'Tt is an act of economic
craftsmanship. I earnestly com.
mend it to the public conscience.
This joint appeal proposes
the creation of a distinguished
tribunal to pass promptly on
any case of hardship or dispute
that may arise from interpreta-
tiOn or application Of the Presi-
dents reemplOyment agreement.
The advantages Of this recon-
mendation are plain, and ac-
cept it and hereby appoint the
men it proposes whOhe names
will carry their own cOmmenda-
tiOn to the country"
General johnson brought the
strike and lockout agreement to
the President last night after a
dramatic flight from Washington.
Soon after his arrival he an
nounced provisional settlement of
the strike in the Pennsylvania
bituminouS coal fields, and indi-
Gated that something bigger"
might be in the air. Just what
this was he did not disclose,
however, until word of the mora
torium leaked out just before his
departure for Washington today.
Plan Carries No Powers
President Roosevelt did not
distribute his statement in person
to the press, as he has done fire.
quently in the pass. but delegated
his secretary, Marvin H. Mcintyre,
to release the announcement to
the nation.
Reporters assigned to the temp
orary White House knew the state
ment was coming. but expected
it later in the afternoon. They
were surprised when Mcintyre,
excited and breathleSs, came run
ming into the room assigned to
newspapermen.
AS drafted and made operative,
the industrial peace pact does not
carry any specific powers other
than those bound up with the
names of the nations great
leaders of capital and labor.
These names, backed by the full
approval of the President, are eX-
pected to invest the agreement
with weight and authority vir-
tually equal to laws written into
the country's statute books.
Hope for Effectiveness
The President and others be-
hind the hope that the appeal
will smooth out labor troubles in
all industries. Where the appeal
itself fails, the seven-man tribunal
named by the Chief Executive will
go into action. It's job will be to
handle the "tough cases."
This means that in cases where
difficulties arise between capital
and labor despite sincere desire
to cooperate with the President,
the disputes will be referred to
the impartial tribunal.
The Chief Executives announce
ment early today of truce in the
coal strike brought his recov-
cry program through its first big
test successfully. and a strike
which threatneed to throw 20O,-
900 men out of work and had
already made idle $4,000 workers
was at least temporarily settled.
Simple Method Used
The President and Johnson
settled the coal dispute by the
simple method of telling all the
factions concerned to begin opera
tions Immediately and continue
to carry on" until some sort of
code of fair competition carrying
a scale of maximum work hours
and minimum wages could be
agreed upon.