The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-08-03
NATIONWIDE
LABOR DISPUTE
/. SETUP FORMED
First Unit of Machinery to
End Strikes TO Be in
Textile Industry.
ORGANIZE UNDER NRA
National and State Boards,
Committees in Each
Factory Planned.
BY RUTH FINNEl
IimrS Special Writer


first nationwide machinery ever
created in this country IN peace
times for settlement Of labor dis
putes is being organized by NRA.
It's first unit will operate in the
cotton textile industry
The administration hopes to es-
tablish similar units IN all impor-
tant industries as fast as their
permanent codes of fair competition
are approved.
II II is successful labor will have
forum. on which 1t is itself repre-
sented. TO which il may take all dis
putes that can not be settled within
a factory or shop
The administration looks forward
to preventing strikes and lockouts
and other Interruptions of employ
ment and production" on a scale
large enough TO assure success OF
its recovery plan.
Johnson Discloses Plan
Administrator Hugh S. Johnson
disclosed the new plan in announce
ing modification Of the cotton tex
tile code TO provide a national in
duStrial relations board having
jurisdiction over all labor disputes
within that industry.
The national board will have three
members. one selected by the cotton
textile committee to represent en-
ployers. one selected by the labor
advisory board to represent workers,
and one appointed by the admins
traitor
Under this national board. state
boards Will operate. and these will
have three members also appointed
by the administrator from nominal
tons made by the national indus
trial relations board. which. in turn,
will receive nominations from en-
ployers and workers.
Committees in Each Factory
State boards will help employers
and workers organize committees for
each factory on which each shall
have equal representation, and dis
putes and grievances will De heard
first by these factory committees.
Where agreement is reached, it
will be binding. unless the national
industrial relations board objects.
Where agreement is not reached,
appeal will be taken TO a state
board, and finally to the national
board
The code specifically recites that
creation of such industrial rela-
tons committees within individual
factories shall be without prejudice
to the freedom of association pro-
vided for in the industrial recovery
act"
Cite Pennsylvania Trouble
The new plan for mediation
machinery was suggested to the re-
covery administration by the COM
mittee appointed to investigate the
'stretchouth or speedup system in
cotton textile mills. Jurisdiction of
the industrial relation board, how
ever, will extend beyond violations
OF this sort, to every labor contro-
versy in the industry
Members of the stretch out"
committee, Robert w. Bruere. editor
OF the Survey; B. E Greer, president
OF Furman college. and Major
George Barry, president of the
printing pressmen's national union,
may be named as members of the
first national industrial relations
board although this has not yet
been decided
/ Creation Of a national industrial
relations board for the coal industry
in connection with its code would
provide a method of preventing in
the future such struggles as are now
taking place in the Pennsylvania
coal fields.
Mediation Board Understaned
Except for railway labor. no govern
ment machinery exists f. dealing
with strikes and controversies at
the present time, except the board
Of mediation in the labor depart
ment, and this board. ina 1equately
stated. functions only when II is
called in by parties TO dispute
The industrial relations board will
have no connection with the gov
ernment's participation on I h g
planning and fair practice COM
mittee of the cotton textile in
| dustry.