Montana labor news., 1934-02-15

Montana of the National Emergency
Council is open and ready to serve the
public. 1t is located at 604 Power
Block, Helena, Montana, and is under
the direction of Miles Romney, State
Director for Montana.
Complaints of noncompliance with
the codes of fair competition under
the National Industrial Recovery Act
that heretofore have gone to the Re-
gional Director at Seattle will now
come direct to the Helena office. The
cooperation of the several county
and city compliance boards that were
set up under the Presidents Re-em-
ployment Agreement it is hoped will
continue.
All complaints will be treated on
fidentially, neither the name of the
complainant nor of the respondent can
be revealed, for the protection of all
concerned.
A State Adjustment Board will soon
be established. By direction from
headquarters in Washington it will
for the present be composed of three
members, one to be selected by the
Montana State Federation of Labor,
one to be chosen by the Associated In
dustries, and the third, an impartial
outstanding citizen, who will act as
chairman, will be agreed upon and
recommended by the other two mem
bers of the board. The chairman will
receive his appointment from the
President.
The office of director will under
take to adjust differences that may
arise. Or cases may be referred or ap-
pealed to the State Adjustment Board.
If these agencies fail to adjust the
case it will be forwarded to the Ma
tional Compliance Director in Wash
ington. If wilful or fragrant viola
tions of the codes, which have the full
force of law, be established prosecu-
ton will be conducted by the Depart
ment of Justice or the Federal Trade
Commission, the enforcement depart
ments of the government.
Each industry with an approved
code will be se~lf-governing under its
Code Authority and will be expected
to police itself. Only cases of wilful
and fragrant violation will fall into
the hands of the federal authority.
Touching the conference held in
Washington last week, Mr.. Romney
said:
"The AZ state directors were called
to Washington by Frank c. Walker,
National Director of the National
Emergency Council, who presided over
1.-THE conferences that were in progress
flour days. We listened to addresses
lby President Roosevelt, Secretary of
1.-THE Interior, Harold L. Ickes, Secre-
ltary of Commerce Daniel Roper, Sec
lretary of Labor Frances Perkins, and
the heads of the Emergency Agen-
cies, including General Hugh johnson,
IChief of the NRA and his aides, Will
liam H. Davis, National Compliance
director, William Compton, Chief OF
the Code Association, Division Major
Mayes, trade practice branch, DR.. A.
j.. Altmyer, labor branch A. d. White
side, divisional administration, Donald
Renshaw, Field Liaison officer, and
others. Donald Richberg, General
Counsel for NRA, discussed the un-
derlying philosophy and described the
use of compulsion in the administra-
ton of the codes.
Turning from MIRA matters the Ma.
/, tional Emergency Conference took up
the human factors of the recovery
program, particularly those having to
do with individual relief.
Jesse Jones, head Of the Recon
struction Finance Corporation, told Of
its gigantic credit operations. He has
since indicated in a talk before big
New York bankers that if they do not
do their part in helping to pull the
country out Of the depression by pro-
Ividing credits and other necessary ac-
commodations for business and indus
try the government may take the
banks over. He holds hat advances
of government funds and insurance OF
deposits has provided the banks with
abundant liquidity.
Chairman John H. Fahey, Of the
Federal Loan Bank Board, described
in detail the operations of the Home
Owners' Loan Corporation and the
Federal Savings and Loan Association
An orderly procedure of siding the
urban dweller in distress is function
ing now in an effective manner, he
said.
Various credit agencies established
to aid agriculture were described by
Gov. w. /. Myers of the Farm Credit
Administration, who said that for the
first time in the history of the world
la country had set up a structure