Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1933-07-23
INDUSTRY SHOWING
STRIDES FORWARD
7 IN PENNSYLVANIA.
Industrial Codes Have Added
; Million to States Buy
ing Power.
BY WALTER ID. ROOS.
Special ispateh to The Star

special DlSpatcn 10 Inc star.
HARRISBURG, Pa, July 22-Indus-
trial codes. operating or pending under
the national recovery act. this week in
creased the purchasing power of Penn
sylvania industrial employees by millions
Of dollars a year.
Textile mills were the first to benefit,
when their code became effective last
Monday. With the minimum wage Of
$l3 going into operation, the pay roll
Of 40 Lehigh Valley silk mills increased
50 1000 900 year, textile workers of the
Philadelphia district received wage in
creases of more than 10000 a week,
and minimum wage scales in garment
factories Of southeastern counties
brought an estimated $4,000 increase
in pay rolls.
Steel also joined the improvement
parade before its code became effective.
The Bethlehem Steel Co. announced is
per cent increase in wages of all classes
Of its $4,000 employees at six plants In
Pennsylvania and five in other States
During the week operations Of steel
plants in the Pittsburgh district in
creased from As to 40 per cent of ca
pacity. Because of the huge produc-
ton capacity of the Pittsburgh district
operating at Q lower rate than most
other steel centers Of the country.
Construction Employment Gains.
Statistics compiled by the State show
substantial gains in construction en-
ployment in June for the fourth con-
secutive month, June's increase over
May being 1O9 per cent.
Thinning bread lines have become the
rule throughout the State. In one up
State section emergency relief commit
loiy fhlir urnrl hoS
ended, when resumption of work at
three brick plants reduced the number
Of families on relief from 400 to 80 In
ono town and from IS to in q neigh
boring municipality. Statewide totals
showing reduction In relief cases are
not yet available.
While the march to new and fatter
pay envelopes has been steady, Q de-
velopment within the State gives tndi-
cations that State control Of industries
may be featured by political complica-
otto cooperation which the national
administration sought under the re-
covery act.
On Monday Gov. Clifford P1nchot
promoted Miss Charlotte E. Carr, .
deputy, to be secretary Of labor ana IN
dustry in his cabinet. She succeeds
Dr.. A. NJ. Northrup, who had resigned
last Friday, accusing the Governor OF
permitting Miss Carr to ''foment
strikes' in a period Of industrial diff
Guilty and making 1t impossible for him
TO administer the department I'm
partially.
Aided MIN Perkins,
Miss Carr, who had been . bureau
chief in the department In the flrst
Rnchot administration, 1923-27, had
served as an aide to Miss Frances Per-
kins as commissioner Of labor In New
York before returning here at Gov.
Nnchot's invitation in 1891 to be Dr..
Northrups deputy. In the conflict be-
tween the conservative policies Of
Northrup and the very liberal labor
views of Miss Carr, the new secretary
had had the support Of Mrs. Cornelia
Bryce Pinchot, the Governors wife.
who has paraded with textile strikers q
hall dozen times in recent weeks.
The Governors promotion Of Miss
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