Evening star., 1934-02-22
PERMANENT Mr.. A.
AIM OF JOHNSON
Hopes Conference of Code
Authorities Will Start
New Social Order.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Hugh S. johnson hopes the March
S mass assembly of N. r. A. code au-
thorities will start permanent
change in the country's social order.
Oficials already are likening the
gathering to a first economic con-
gress.
Elaborate preparations for the
event indicate johnson wants it to be
forcible demonstration that coded
| industry has the capacity to act for
| the welI-being of the country, and
that the new experimental system Is
worthy of perpetuation.
More immediate problems, however,
, could not be entirely showed aside by
! the recovery agency.
johnson disclosed that correspond
ence was in progress with the Ford
Co, on complaints submitted by Will
! liam Green. president of the Amer
: ican Federation Of Labor, that two
| Ford plants had violated code collec-
tive bargain provisions.
Warning against fairy tales" the
! N. r. A. head nevertheless said that
If the complaints we're true it would
be a challenge to the Government.
Green added a court suit would be
the only recourse.
Wagner Is Troubled.
Meantime Senator Wagner, Demo-
crat, of New York reported to Presi-
! by an increasing opposition by in
dustrialists to the activities of the
National Labor Board, of which he
is chairman.
More than 800 cases. involving
| 164 900 workers are still pending.
Wagner said. About 100000 of these
employees are on strike. he added. and
no immediate enforcement solution is
! at hand
The Senate did not detract from
N. R. AS troubles II adopted a
resolution by Senator Nye. Repub-
! lican. Of North Dakota who had
contended the agency was shot full'
| of big business spokesmen. asking
a report on present and past in
| duStrial connections of all code
making leaders.
| Although johnson undoubtedly will
suggest a lowering Of industrial work
hours at the forthcoming code meet
ing. he still stood today upon asser-
tions that an arbitrary 3o-hour week
| could not be applied.
In preparation for the mass con-
4 ronPalod On
code hearings set for the next two
weeks to allow more time for work
The outpouring of criticism and
| suggestions which johnson desires at
| the preliminary public sessions start
| ing next Tuesday is admittedly de-
signed not only to produce informa-
ton, but to impress the elected dele
| gates of business with their social re-
sponsibility.
Such persuasion, he hopes. would
have them to accept shorter work
hours and other code changes which
good many now view with reluctance.
| The first objective of the code au-
thority gathering corresponds roughly
| to the transformation of 500 hastily
recruited regiments into well-knit
units capable Of maneuverirg in
| unison.
The second is to give this army a
| real fighting punch for the battle on
depression. by making every industry
| take on the utmost employment and
| pay roll load it can stand.
The third is to keep the regiments
from working hardships on the civil
Ian population, and the stronger CON-
\ panies and squads inside each unit
from depressing the weaker ones.
! Looks Toward Permanence.
| But johnson is definitely looking
beyond the anti-depression battle to-
ward permanence. The emergency
industrial control law expires a year
from next June Is. Eight gruelling
| monts have gone into the recruiting
of the code groups, and the practi-
cability of the entire idea has to be
established and demonstrated before
| the permanent structure can be
planned, a job that will take many
/ months.
! Representative Lesinski Democrat.
of Michigan asked johnson when he
appeared before the House Labor
Committee yesterday what the situ-
alton was in regard to the Ford Co.
The administrator explained there
have been a great many fairy tales"
| about the Ford situation, that the
| complaints were turned over to the
National Labor Board, that corre-
spondence now is being held with the
Ford Co. and that if it were found
that Ford was violating the code it
would constitute a Government chal-
lenge. as Green had said. and there
would be nothing left but a suit"
| do you realize Ford does not in
tend to comply with the collective
bargaining?" Lesinski persisted.
THAT is q prophecy" johnson re-
piled, "and can't say about that.
II happen to know 1t to be a
fact" Lesinski asserted. "The Ford
Co. employs one of the best spy sys-
TENS in this country. I know it and
who they are. They mingle with
the workers and If one word Is said
for the union a worker is fired"
We've got to have the facts" the
| administrator explained. " can't
make an ex parte statement and
make anybody comply"
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