Evening star., 1933-07-21
CODE
COMPROMISED
Cloak and Suit Hearing Ends,
With East and West
Pacts Indicated.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Hearings on a code Of fair competi-
ton for the shipbuilding industry
closed today, subject to call. after fail
ure of efforts Of Recovery Administra-
ton officials to effect a compromise
between labor and management.
Both sides stood by their original
proposals. employers for a 40-hour
week and minimum wages of IS cents
an hour in the South and 40 in the
North, and labor demanding 30-hour
week with minimum wage of $25
weekly.
Public hearings, meanwhile were
concluded on the code for the cloak
and suit industry, with Earl Howard.
deputy administrator, indicating two
codes might be formulated, one for the
East and eone for the West.
Other Hearings Held.
Hearings also were held today on
the codes submitted by the lumber in
dustry and electrical manufacturers
while coal operators continued their
efforts to draw I'D an agreement
The electrical hearing recessed
shortly after noon to permit the Ma
tional Electrical Manufacturing Asso-
citation to work on a suggestion by
Deputy Administrator W. L. Allen for
reconsideration of the wages and hours
provided. The code recommended a
minimum wage of IS cents an hour
and SO and 40-hour weeks Labor de-
manded a 30-hour week and 80 cents
an hour for skilled workers.
At the lumber hearing William
Green. president of the American Fed
Grafton of Labor, denounced the wage
rOdo Y,r0Y,0Sad a c inS1IfI1cipnt
THE wages imposed in this code do
not conform with the spirit or letter OF
the recovery act" he protested. THE
lumber industry must organize as the
law permits it to organize and as a
result receive a decent price for its
product, so that it can pay decent
wage and put its hours of work at a
point at which it can reabsorb its idle
workers"
Says Hours Are Too Long.
Wages proposed by the code range
from $1,000 in the South to 5000 per
week in the Northwest, with hours from
40 to 48.
Green objected that such wages
would not provide the purchasing power
which is the purpose Of the law and
contended the hours were much too
long.
DO you think that Congress and the
people are going to stand for your hav-
ing the privileges given you by this law,
and yet do nothing for labor" Green
shouted at the lumber operators.
Hugh s. johnson, recovery admins
traitor, attended the hearing. which was
presided over by Dudley Gates, assistant
administrator.
Secretary of Labor Perkins was an in
terested spectator and brought with her
the Right Hon. Margaret Bonfield Of
Great Britain, former minister of labor
and active in labor political circles
there.
Testimony Of Two Challenged.
At the outset of the shipbuilding
hearing, a charge that two labor men
who testified yesterday appeared with
out authority was made by Joseph A.
Franklin of the Boilermakers' Union.
Franklin, who presented the employees
alternate code, said he had re-
ceived telegram from the representa-
tive Of the International Association Of
Machinists at Quincy, Mass, that w. G.
McDermott and Charles Mackenzie had
no authorization to speak for employees
of the, Fore River plant Of the Bethle-
hem Shipbuilding Corporation.
McDermott and Mackenzie yesterday
submitted q brief recommending 40
hour week and minimum wage Of SO
cents an hour.
\ Franklin started to read kilograms
and letters from Charles Campield,
representative of the machinists in
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