Evening star., 1933-09-22
MINE LABOR PACT
AWAITS PRESIDENT
Soft Coal Agreement Involves
Wages of Hundreds
of Thousands.
Continued From First Page.)

e-employment campaign. was reported
to be drafting the proposed permanent
set-up of the N. R. A., it was empha-
sized that the present outline, under
which industry would be given a thor
ough-going chance to run its own af-
fairs, had not yet been approved by
the Cabinet Advisory Board headed bv
Secretary Roper However, the beard
has discussed a similar set-up with the
administrator.
Besides the staff reorganization. there
also is under way an examination of
existing codes for revision of weak
spots and merger wherever possible of
as many additional industries as pos
sible under master codes.
This merging into as few charters as
possible constitutes the heart of the
proposed permanent set-up of the N.
r. A. as now proposed by Hammond
and those assisting him.
Policy Board Created.
The general reorganization of the
N. R. A. key men and the creation of
policy board was disclosed with the
appointment by Johnson of Robert w.
Lea, deputy administrator, as as
slstant administrator for industry He
succeeds Dudley Gates, Chicago insur-
ance man, who resigned after differ
ences with the administrator.
Lea and johnson worked together as
Army officers in the Division of Sup
plies during the World War and have
been business intimates and friends
since. The new assistant administrator
was in Europe during the Summer, but
came home at the request of Johnson
to handle the code for the automobile
industry
The new policy board was created. the
executive order said, 'in anticipation
OF working out change in our organi-
Zatlon to accommodate the gradual
merger of the Blue Eagle work into the
work of code hearings and to free the
time of the administrator by a greater
delegation of responsibility and au-
thority"
Headed by Hammond. it includes the
following: Lea, Alvin Brown, admins
trative assistant to johnson: Edward
F.. McGrady, assistant administrator for
labor; Charles Nicholson, chief of pub
lie relations; Malcom Muir, deputy ad-
mlnistrator; Donald R. Richberg, gen.
eral counsel: Mrs Charles c. Rumsey
chairman of the Consumers Advisory
Board; DR.. Alexander Sachs, chief econ
omlst; K. M. Simpson. a deputy admin
1strator; Nelson Slater, liaison officer
UtINetll tlle IN. II. "A. ana tne Agrlcul-
tural Adjustment Administration: WAL
ter c. Teagle. chairman of the Indus
trial Advisory Board: DR.. Leo Wolman,
chairman of the Labor Advisory Board;
c. c. Williams, deputy administrator,
and Robert K. Straus, who has been
designated liaison officer between divi-
slons OF the administration
Allen Also Named.
w. L. Allen. another deputy admin
1strator, also was named to the board.
but he resigned Wednesday to return
to his work as a consulting engineer in
New York. Allen presided over the
cotton textile code. the first to be ap-
proved. Last week the last of half a
dozen codes handled by him, that for
Inoleum and felt bases, was approved
by President Roosevelt and he asked to
be relieved to return to his private
affairs
Hammond has been transferred from
his post as head of the unemployment
campaign under presidential agreement
to work out the plan for organization |
OF code compliance and trade associa- /
tion organization.
merge gradually the temporary division |
into the permanent N. R. A. work.
The order placed all public relations |
of the N. R. A. under Nicholson, |
former newspaper men and chief of the |
publicity section of the Democratic Ma
tional Committee from the establish |
ment of permanent headquarters in
Washington in 1929 until recently