Evening star., 1933-07-08
STATE lob AGENTS
CALLED T0PARLEY
Organization Planned to Mo.
biIize Workers Where They
Are Needed.
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employment line. They remained close
together during the decline.
Production has gone ahead Of en-
ployment, however, in the last two
months.
Farm Gains Lead.
The President is determined that en-
ployment shall keep up. The way to
bring that about, he feels, is through
elimination of long hours and the hir-
ing Of new help.
The price charts show the greatest
relative increase in the last two months
! in farm products. The President likes
that, but he wants to bring them up to
the comparative level for manufactured
goods.
Government charts show that from
! 1920 to 1928 farm and manufactured
price levels were about the same. Farm
prices went higher in 1928 and in 1929,
but since then their line has dropped
SO low 1t has almost gone off the sheet
The Chief Executive yesterday went
over the public works program with
Senator Wagner Democrat of New
York and the latter said afterward that
quick start was probable on projects
which may dent unemployment by
| 900 900 men before Autumn is over.
Meantime, Johnson said assertions
that it was the purpose of the industrial
act to unioniZe labor were incorrect.
Circulars and other literature" john
son declared, "purpOrted to come from
! labor union agents have intimated or
| openly stated that it is purpose OF
| the national recovery act and admin
/ stration to unionize labor or that the
only way labor can secure benefits under
that art is to join this or that union.
Similar statements purporting to
come from industrial concerns have
! intimated that this or that newly
formed company union is the only Or
ganization through which labor can get
a fair deal under this act.
Both Statements Incorrect.
Both statements are incorrect, and
| such erroneous statements OF the act
| and its administration tend to foment
misunderstanding and discord.
! 1T is the duty Of this administration
! to see that all labor-organized as we'll
/ as unorganized-gets a square deal. and
the administration is organized to do
and will do that duty. The improved
labor conditions proposed in the textile
industry, which is largely unorganizeo.
are an example of this. 1t Is not the
duty Of the administration to act as an
/ agent to unionize labor in any industry
and, as has repeatedly been stated. II
! will not SO act. 1t is the duty OF this
| administration to require the inclusion
| in codes CT the mandatory conditions
/ Of section and to see that these
| conditions are complied with, ano II
will perform that duty.
! The policy of the National Recovery
Administration respecting the rights ana
/ obligations OF both organized and un-
! ORGANIZED labor Is based on the declara-
/ tion of policy in section / OF the act
itself. which clearly stated the obJectives
/ of this legislation, in part. as 1olIoWs:
To induce and maintain united actlon
/ Of labor and management under aoe-
qllate government sanction ana super
vision.
"Manifestly the purpose Of the act Is
I to create and preserve harmonious rela-
tionships and to prevent industrial
strife and class conflicts.
Organization Permitted.
| Labor in any industry has the right
! to organize and bargain collectively; the
law also recognizes the right OF mol
vidual workers. to bargain for their own
conditions Of employment. But IN the
execution of this new social policy 10
which the Government stands COM
mitted. it is the obligation of the Ma
tional Recovery Administration to re-
ouire the payment of living wages by
! industry as condition of continued eX-
! istence and to prevent excessive and un-
reasonable disparitieS. i'll the interest
| both of social justice and balanced
economy
collective bargaining under adequate
Government sanction and supervision
! should hold no fears for the fair-minded
| industrialist on the other hard. the
| National Recovery Administration
| pledges itself through its labor advisory
/ board to obtain a fair deal for labor In
! anv industry presenting code. whether
the employes are organized or not. It
! is not the function or the purpose OF
| the administrator to organize either in
dustry or labor"
Earlier, johnson told bituminous
coal operators and miners that any
! North-South wage differential IN code
! fcr the industry was "a question OF
! facts"
Faced with a question from group Of
| operators, mostly from union fields IN
| the Central and Midwest regions. as to
the possibility of spread between
miners pay III tlle NOilii anu ooutH'
/ Johnson said regional differences in
! living costs would be considered, as in
the framing of the textile code.
Hours Up to Operators.
"The size of the differential won't
be determined on the sayso Of either
side" johnson continued. ITS ques-
ton Of facts. and there will be an ex-
haustive survey thereon"
| AS for maximum hours. the admins
traitor said the whole idea was to put
| the same number of miners to work as
worked in normal times. Exact hours.
he said, would have to be worked out
by the operators.
THE weekly wage" johnson con-
tinued. must be large enough for de-
cent living 1t doesn't make any diff
ference whether labor is union or, nOIr-
union Labor is to get square deal,
| union or non-union. The miners are to
! be free to join any union they want to.
There's to be no coercion to make a
man join any union. That must be in
! the code"
Johnson addressed the operators and
miners after they had gone to work on