Evening star., 1934-05-28
EXECUTIVE ORDER
EASESN.R. A. TASK
Sets Up Local SeIf-Govern-
ment Rule for Many Serv-
ice Industries.
BY the Associated Press,

By the Associated Press.
The N. R. AS burden was light
ened measurably today by a presi'
dental order setting up local self
government rule for many Of the
coded service industries.
The order created new recovery
administration policy. 1t suspended
price fixing and other provisions of
codes for certain of the service in
dustrieS as may be designated by the
N. r. A. The hour and wage and
other clauses were left intact. Hugh
S. johnson, N. r. A. administrator
will decide which industries would be
affected.
The service industries, those selling
services rather than goods, include
hotels, restaurants. barber shops
laundries and cleaning and dyeing
plants.
It was indicated this change OF
policy probably would be forerunner
of other Qualifications and shifts in
the N R. A. program.
johnson to Remain.
It was learned authoritatively that
President Roosevelt has decided that
Administrator johnson is to remain
at the helm until N. r. A. is on
definitely charted course and has the
codes clicking smoothly.
In a statement accompanying his
latest executive order last night, the
President pointed out that while some
industries could operate efficiently
under a national code there were
others "to which a greater degree OF
autonomous local self-government is
desired"
Text of Statement.
The texts of President Roosevelt's
statement and executive order follows:
The statement:
Most industries have national
community of economic interest, even
though the operation of some OF tner
units is local. There are others which
notwithstanding their having national
trade associations, do not actually IN
tegrate themselves nationally. Whether
an industry can govern and police
itself under the fair trade provisions
of a national code depends on its
degree of actual economic integration
on q national scale and on the organl-
zation and solidarity within the whole
industry. A trial period of some
months has shown that while most
industries, after organization for this
work and a little experience with It,
can secure uniform national results
there are others to which a greater
degree of autonomous local self
government is desirable. Among these
are some, but not all, of the so-called
service industries-that is, industries
engaged in the sale of services rather
than of goods.
No industry would give up the gains
we have made in the elimination OF
child labor and in the establishment
Of minimum wages and maximum
hours of labor and, of course, under
the law, We cannot give up collective
bargaining and the right of the Presi-
dent to cancel or modify codes, orders
and agreements.
Signing Order Today.
I am signing an order today which
carries these principles into effect as
to some of the so-called service in
dustries. To put it simply: No matter
where he is located, no member of
any such service industry, as shall
have previously been designated by
the administrator, may fly the Blue
Eagle unless he is living up to the
present code provisions governing child
labor, maximum hours, minimum
wages and collective bargaining. But
trade practices shall be required as a
condition of flying the Blue Eagle in
these designated service industries
only in particular localities in which
at least 85 per cent of the members
there have proposed as a local code
OF fair trade practice, a schedule of
such practices in respect of which
they all seek to agree with me to
comply with their own proposal. If
the administrator approves of any
such proposed local codes, then no
member in that locality may fly the
Blue Eagle unless, in addition to COM
plying with the code provisions gov
erning child labor, maximum hours,
minimum wages and collective bar
gaining, he also is complying with this
local compact on trade practices.
The display of the Blue Eagle by
an employer is notice to the people
OF the United States that he is deal
ing fairly with his workers in accord
ance with the letter and spirit of the
recovery program, that he is not TAX
ing advantage of child labor and that
he is living up to the prescribed