Imperial Valley press., 1933-08-14
RECOVERY To
BE SPEEDED
BY PRESIDENT
Roosevelt At Capital To Aid
In Drawing Codes For Major
Industrial Group.
CONFERS WITH LEADERS
Johnson And Governor Pinchot,
OF Pennsylvania Urge Prompt
Action On Coal.
By.H. o. THOMPSON

BY, ii. u. THOMPSON
United Press Staff Correspondent
WASHINGTON, Aug. IA. W.D =
President Roosevelt, anxious to
spur the coal, oil and steel indus
tries into the national recovery set
up discussed code problems today
with Governor Pinchot of Pennsyl-
vania and Hugh S. Johnson, recov-
cry administrator.
Pinchot informed Mr.. Roosevelt
that prompt action was necessary
on a coal code, and expressed con-
fidence after his conference that
such action would be forthcoming.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 14.-Presi-
dent Roosevelt took guiding hand
today in his National Recovery Adj
ministration efforts to swing three
key industries, oil, coal and steel,
into line under codes regulating
competition, wages and working
| hours.
Codes for these giants of Ameri-
can business have been delayed by
protracted disputes within their
own ranks and controversies with
the NRA. Pending final solution
of it's problems, the oil industry
has been authorized to operate UNI
der modified form of the presi-
dental unemployment agreement.
The others still are outside the fold
of the Blue Eagle.
AS Mr.. Roosevelt took personal
command of the recovery drive on
his return from Hyde Park, N. Y,
one of his first acts was to go over
the oil, coal and steel disputes at
hearings which failed to bring
agreement on proposed codes for
the three groups. With report at
hand, the President expected to
meet the chief administrator, Hugh
S. Johnson, today.
The issue of price fixing is the
crux of the oil controversy. Major
producers insisted that the govern
ment prescribe prices that would
assure them return sufficient to
meet the higher costs of increased
wages and shorter working hours.
Johnson opposed this, feeling that
federal regulation of production
would stabilize prices. NRA econo-
mists and interior department ex-
perts have tackled the problem and
hope to have solution by Thurs
day, when "a leaders of the indus
try are to meet with johnson.
Spur Smaller Businesses
While johnson concentrated on
the big industries, he relied upon
consumers and local campaign COM
mittees to exert increasing pressure
on stores and employers to sign the
blanket unemployment agreement
and to live up to its terms.
Buy! Buy now!" he exhorted
again in a nationwide address from
a st. Louis mass meeting, declaring
that employers can pay higher wa
ges only as their business increases.
Buy everything you need and
have so long denied yourself. 1t is
the key to the whole situation
Johnson appealed especially to
housewives to buy only under the
sign of the blue eagle. He pointed
out that they control the bulk Of
retail purchases.
This whole venture is in the
hands of our women" he declared,
land it could not be in surer hands.
"A woman in defense of the sup
port of her home is about as safe
for triflers as lioness at the door
of den full of cubs. When every
American housewife understands
that the blue eagle on everything
that she permits to come into her
home is symbol of its restoration
to security, may God have mercy
on the man or group of men VINO
attempt to trifle with this bird