Evening star., 1933-09-18
buy NOW" DRIVE
TOBEPRESSEDAS
EMPLOYMENT AID
Senator Wagner to Discuss
Movement in Address to Ma
tionaI Audience Tonight.
JOHNSON TO TAKE COAL
CODE TO White HOUSE
Administrator Turns to Pressing
Questions, Including Price
Control Issue.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
An early start was sighted TODAY on
the Nationwide Buy Now" campaign
projected by Hugh S. Johnson, N. r. A.
chief, to mass public support behind
business cooperation in the re-employ-
ment movement
While he still had the bituminous
coal code on his hands for completion
OF final details, he was expected to take
1t to the White House before the end
OF the day and turn to other pressing
questions. including the price-control is
sue presented in the codes for retail
trade, source Of considerable contro.
versy.
Inc buying movement was to be diss
cussed tonight In an address to a ma
t1onal audience by Senator Robert F.
Wagner OF New York, who has been
active in the N. R. A. as chairman of
the National Labor Board
weeks ago johnson promised to
launch the drive around September 20.
Since that time extensive preparation
and study Of methods has been under
way.
Faces Threat from Labor.
Meanwhile the bituminous code
faced a new threat from organized
labor which held possibilities of re-
opening the controversy and delaying
nnal PRONUNCIATION of the charter by
President Roosevelt.
A meeting Of the Labor Advisory
Board OF N. r. A. was called for late
the code.
There were strong indications it
would register opposition not only to
the Interpretation Of the collective bar
gaining provision but also to a number
Of the wage scales.
John j. Lewis, president of the
United Mine Workers of America, and
William Green, president of the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor, have asked
such a stand from the board, which is
headed by DR.. Leo Wolman, and in
cludes selected spokesmen for labor.
The Industrial ADVISORY Board
which speaks for business approved
the code today.
Board Has Stood Firm.
The Labor Board has stood firmly
throughout the entire life of the N. r. A
against any statement In codes attempt
ing to Clarity the guarantee Of collective
bargaining for labor without coercion
from employers.
should 1t 60 on record formally
against the explanation In the coal code,
stand opposition by non union operators.
President Roosevelt would have two
alternatives.
He might impose the code upon the
INDUSTRY either with or without the
clause to which labor objects or he
might call the operators back to sign
q new code with this section deleted.
Should he take the latter course it
would throw the entire charter open
Tor new discussions.
Still Several Stumbling Blocks.
The code bore signature of spokes-
men Tor all the countrys bituminous
coal operators except those from Ala
bama, West Kentucky and the captive"
mines owned by steel or other concerns,
which consume the entire output. Sig
natures and compliance with its terms
were expected by officials from the Ala
bama group, as well as the captives.
put there was no estimate as to the
Kentucky situation
There still was no solution in the
conferences for negotiationS sof union
contract between United Mine Workers
o1nclals and Appalachian field oper-
ators. Lack Of uniformity in rates of
pay and measurement of coal between
different mines in these fields were the
chief stumbling block.
An important series of hearings on
printing, engraving, publishing and al
LED lines opened this morning under
Deputy Administrator Lindsay Rogers.
who took up first codes for the COM
merclal printing group and planned to
clImax the chain of sessions OF Septem-
per 22 with the American Newspaper
Publishers Association compact.
Study Legal Arguments,
Before johnson and his counsel.
Daniel Richberg, were a host of legal
arguments on the proposed retail trade
code provision for maintaining mini
mum retail prices at 10 per cent above
wholesale costs.
Both regarded this charter, which
reaches hundreds Of thousands of en-
ployes and touches the consumer di-
rectly, as OF major importance. In
vowed with prices. too, was the need
of getting the many retail stores now
unorgan1zed into trade associations or
similar agencies for code administra-
ton
johnson sought a "crackerjack trade
association man" to do this job.
Standard of Friendly Aid.
In regulations issued to local CON-
pllance boards, johnson set a standard
OF friendly aid rather than the iron
fist" for their guidance in enforcing
Blue Eagle agreements. But he added:
If an employer wilfully persists in
noncompliance with the agreement
after being fully informed of his obli-
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