The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-02-28
BARROW ASKS SMALL
BUSINESSMAN'S AID
CONTINUED from page one)

set I'D in response to congress
sional protests that the NRA was
deaf and blind to the ills of the
little fellows. 1t started operat-
ing yesterday.
Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt got
into the dispute at yesterdays
NRA hearing to defend small
book shops against department
store competition, and she took
the opportunity to express an
opinion that the people probably
get more for their money from
individual food stores than from
chain stores. Miss Harriet An
derson of the Channel Bookshoo,
New York. read Mrs. Roosevelt's
statement.
Administrator Johnson, opening
hearings on complaints against
the NRA outlined the following
steps by which the administration
hoped to revise codes:
More uniform and equitable
price stabilization and more eff
fective rules against cut-throat
sales below cost.
Reductions in work hours and
raises in hourly pay; uniformity
of hours and pay in competing
industries; uniform classification
of areas for north-south wage
differentials.
Protection of small enterprises
against monopoly control.
Improvement in forcing prompt
and effective code compliance
and same financing of code ad-
ministration without racketeer-
ing and abuse"
Labor and consumer advisory
representation on code authori-
ties and uniformity of govern
ment representation.
Wider use of mechanism for
settling labor disputes.
In five separate conferences,
after joint opening conference
on code revisions addressed by
General Johnson NRA officials
listened to criticisms of hour and
wage provisions, price regulation,
the effect of the NRA upon the
small business man and other
pphases of the code program.
The Importance which Johnson
attaches to revising wages up
ward and hours of work down.
ward in present codes was shown
when he questioned closely Joe
Kiss, secretary of the furniture
workers industrial union, who
complained bluntly the NRA had
really raised hours and lowered
the workers standard Of living IN
his trade. Il
Johnson appeared dist r b e d
when William Collins, national
representative of the American
Federation of Labor, charged
that the automobile industry
maintained a great spy system to
thwart the labor guarantees I'M
der NRA.
"They have taken advantage
of you, Mr.. General, because they
know you are busy" Collins de-
clared. "God help US when peo-
pie become so poisoned that a |
law of this kind passed by their I
own congress can not be made
to work"
During the afternoon there
were complaints that sections IN
some codes preventing home work
were working a hardship upon
women who depended upon this !
revenue to maintain their fami-
lies. There were also sugges-
tons that the abolition of home !
work be made an established !
NRA policy.
William Green, president of
the American Federation of La
Dor. demanded 30-hour week
for all industry. Johnson. how
ever, does not feel that this is
possible at this time. He looks
more favorable upon a 36-hour
week.
There were some suggestions
that organized labor police indus
tries to force compliance with
codes. Fears were expressed that
business may not measure up to
onportunities granted it under
NRA.
simultaneously. tn national
review board, headed by Clarence
barrow, began its work, designed
to give the "little fellow" OPP
pressed by codes, place to air
his grievances. 1t asked Presi-
dent Roosevelt to make it
separate organization outside Of