Evening star., 1934-07-29
N. R. A. CLASS|F|ES
BUSINESS GROUPS
System Being 0verhauIed to
Perfect Administration
and Enforcement.
Nv the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
N r. A. is busy classifying all
American industry into a minimum
Of business groups for the more
efficient administration and enforce
ment Of the Blue Eagle code network.
Possibly two dozen classes may
emerge on new organization charts
being drafted for submission to Hugh
S. johnson when the administrator
returns in early August to throw the
compliance machinery into top speed.
Yesterdays advance toward the
compliance goal was new procedure
for handling labor questions, designed
10 harmonize code machinery with
the new National Labor Relations
Board.
An order BY Johnson distinguished
between complaints" involving al
legged violations OF code hours and
wages and disputes" involving alleged
violation of N. r. AS collective
bargaining guarantee and actual or
threatened strikes and lockouts.
Dispute Agencies Continue.
The dispute" section of the order
stated that final review rested in the
Labor Relations Board. 1t added,
however. that already established
agencies for handling labor disputes
such as the Cotton Textile Industrial
Relations Board anf the Bituminous
Coal Labor Board-may continue TO
function.
The complaint" portion requests
all code authorities to submit for
Johnson's approval plans for handling
labor complaints. Four suggestions
for such machinery were made-a
Bipartisan Committee, and Impartial
Committee, a Single Committee for
groups of related trades and indus
tries and. in some cases, N. r. Al
own compliance division.
Consideration of the Single Com
mittee group plan especially was
urged on industry as promising "econ-
omy, efficiency and elimination OF
overlapping.
Good for Enforcement.
Pending Johnson's return after a
speech in Chicago Thursday, N. r. A.
Is putting emphasis on two jobs
winding up code making and revamp-
ing its own organizations for the next
phase of enforcement work.
Codes are being cleaned up. When
johnson on July 10 set 30-day dead
line for this job, 262 proposed agree
ments we're pending. Yesterday all
but los were reported fitted into the
code structure and officials thought
less than 80 would be left for the
general basic code.
Plotting the outline Of N. r. AS
compliance organization is proving a
more difficult task One plan being
discussed would group all codes into
four major classes broken down into
II divisions which, in turn, would be
subdivided into % classihcations.
Would Have Five Aides.
This proposal, which Is both sub
ject to change and Johnson's approx
al, would have five assistant admins
traitors subordinate to johnson. Four
would have all industry grouped un-
der them as producing industries,
equipment industries, service indus
tries and distribution trades. The
fifth assistant would direct field ad-
n1inistration.
The same suggestion would sub
divide the four main claSsifications
into II parts as follows: Food, tex
tiles, basic materials, chemicals, equip
ment, arts and crafts, construction,
public utilities, finance and commerce,
professions and services, and distri-
button trades.
These in turn, would have sub
classes into which all codes would fit.
Also involved in the scheme is john
sons desire to boil the nearly 500
codes now in existence down to 800.
Meanwhile N. r. A. officials said
last night that steps we're being taken