The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-02-27
JOHNSON BEATSCUN
BY PROPOSING new
PLAN FOR INDUSTRY
Tells Administration Plan Be.
fore Assembled Critics
Can Get Into Action
NEED BETTER COMPLIANCE
G lode Modificat to Be
Threshed Out in Public
Hearings at Capital

Washington, Feb. 27.-(R-Hugh 8.
johnson beat NRA's assembled critics
to the gun Tuesday by unfolding 4
l2-point program for revising exist
ing codes.
Before the hundreds invited to
complain could voice a single criti.
cism. the MIRA administrator an
nounced q wide code revision would
be effected, II possible, by sweeping
presidential mandate.
Individual industries, johnson told
the opening session Of his field day
for criticism" will be allowed mod
ifications only II Justification can be
shown in public hearings.
Code revision, he added, will be
followed by bigger and better Blue
Eagle compliance campatgn-"Call it
what you WILL he said-to make the
emblem indispensable to all business
|eS.
I'VE are going on as we have be-
gum" he said In paragraph aimed
~ VIVA CAICIu4SS. A41SSS 1UCCV11l&S
are the first move In closing up Of
our ranks for . new forward move
ment by NRA.
Chance or circumstance may stop
it, but you are not going to stop 1t
or even make 1t falter.''
Opens Five Ring Circus
Thus with bang. the bluff and
hard-talking administrator threw
open sessions which will run In five
simultaneous performances, day and
night, until everybody who wants to
present objections to the current pro-
gram Or complain of the cOde& has
had at least Is minutes to do It In.
His talk was aimed not only at the
immediate audience but over its head
to the country itself. Into . micro
phone he challenged enemies. denied
that NRA had fallen short Of its
promises and spoke a confident claim
that the industrial program will
march on.
The IL corrections which he said
data already gathered have shown 70
be necessary were:
I. A more uniform and EQUITABLE
rule of price sterilization where nee
essary to precent cut-throat COM
petition, with further insurance
against prices outstripping purchas-
ing power.
2. A more effective rule to pre-
vent sales below Apsts Of production.
3. Uniformity in wages and hours
in industries which are competitive.
4. Uniform classification Of areas
for the prevailing southern wage Diff
ferential.
5. Further reduction In work hours
and further increase In hourly wages.
Need Better Compliance
s. Protection against monopoly,
oppression Of small enterprise and In
clus.on in codes Of buying regulations
to protect the small fellows.
7. An improved method to secure
compliance.
s. A method for financing code
administration without racketeering.
9. Elimination of inconsistent or
conflicting provisions In codes.
10. Adequate labor and consumer
representation in an advisory capacity
on code authorities.
IL. Uniform government repres-
entation on the authorities.
H. Wider use within code groups
Of mechanisnls for settling labor dis
puteS.
Other needs for correction exist, he
said, but these are the headline re-
forms. He promised that anything
else developed by the criticism SEES
sions would be considered along with
the Il points In next weeks assembly
Of code authorities.
1T Is our purpose to determine. In
the code conference" he said. the
opinion in codified industries as to
how many Of these improvements We
can put into effect by general presi-
Dental rulings, leaving to each in
dustry the opportunity to show Why
the application Of such rulings CT,
not, or ought not, to be applied OK
stayed. It Is our plan to move into
this corrective process just as soon rs
the code conference IS finished"
Not . Pep Meeting
This sweeping presentation was
followed up by declaration that
neither meeting was to be "a gesture
or kind Of pep meeting"
"They are both In deadly earnest
and the purpose Of them Is to mop
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