Evening star., 1934-03-01
PRESIDENT TO G|V1
ADDRESS0NN.R R. A
Will Tell Plans Monday i
Address to Johns0n's
Group Meeting.
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effective consumer representation" d
code authorities.
Hundreds of Names Remain.

complain that code hour limits we
being stretched out of all meaniu
that wage levels were being reducH
by various devices, that industrialits |
by intimidation, espionage and otter
means were crushing unionizatDn
and-worst Of all-that complaints
without end had been made to N. r.
A. with almost negligible response
couple of hundred names were on
the waiting lists when the forum
hearings resumed this morning.
The ones on technical and eco
nomic subjects were expected to wind
up within the day, but the hearing
on labor complaints was good for al
run through tomorrow at least.
1t was Edward F. McGrady, right
hand man to johnson and Assistant
Secretary of Labor, who launched to-
day a systematic analysis Of the COM
plants to dig out ammunition for
next week
1t was McGrady who brust out yes
terday with declaration that it was
time to rip the curtain off" the
charged defiance Of the Government
by big employers on the union issue.
sons already outlined program OF
reform be expanded to include a curb
on the stretching Of working hours.
Concede Abuses Exist.
He wanted also some means of
preventing reduction of average wages
py reclassifying workers or displacing
veterans with new help. and elimina-
ton of sex diferentials from every
code.
N. r. A. industrial assistants con-
ceded that the testimony already
gathered left no room fc- Soubt that
wide abuses existed, though they
would not quite egree with one wit
ness. Gerald Smith of Louisiana, who
shouted that eighteenth amendment
violations were a Sunday school
picnic compared to the violation of
the national industrial recovery act"
Johnson, continuing his round OF
the hearings, found Robert Minor,
Communist party spokesman. deliv-
ering an attack on N. r. A. He asksd
him to join his staff and criticize
from the inside. Minor declined. say
ing their objectives we're opposite.
At another point yesterday the
administrator heard a witness charged
one Of his deputies, Myron Ratcliff
with refusing TO consider a change
in a code trade practice because WI
mustn't do anything to disturb" the
way certain big companies do things.
Demands U. S. Financing.
Mrs. Mary E O'Connor. New York
States director of purchase said she
and IA other State purchasing agents
were finding their contract letting
turned into a farce" by identical
bids. submitted by firms using code
regulations for price fixing.
Why go through the farce Of ad-
vertising for bids if bids received are
going to be identical?" Mrs O'Connor
asked.
One witness demanded Government
financing of industry. Another wanted
curb on family y-operated small stoi IS
and still another wanted chain stores
compelled to charge as high a price
as Independent merchants.
Mrs. Clifford Pinchot. red-haired
wife Of the Pennsylvania Governor,
Joined in the complaints yesterday aft
ernoon by charging that defiance Of
labor provisions by some large con-
Germs has been taken by the lesser
fry as signal that they could cheat
and chisel without being called to
account" She termed the labor pro-
gram of the N R. A. a "grisly farce"
Mrs. Pinchot also cited the cases OF
Ernest T, Weir, president of National
Steel. and the E. G. Budd Manufac-
turing Co. of Philadelphia. Both con-
Germs have been charged with pre-
venting their workers from joining
unions of their own choosing.
Johnson's Silence Hit.
johnson has put forward his own
l2-point program for the reform of
the recovery organization, but Mrs. !
Pinchot, who has frequently done
picket duty along strikers lines, said
his program did not go far enough.
She said in many Pennsylvania
towns. chambers of commerce we're
given the task of organizing compli- J
ance boards for codes.
One might as we'll put the guard
ing of sheep into the hands of a COM
mittee OF wolves" she snapped.
Mrs. Pinchot assailed Johnson's
program for its silence regarding Sec
ton A, the proviso which gives the
workers the right to join unions Of
their own choosing.
Although johnson was absent she
addressed him with these words
Gen. johnson. want to say with
all the earneStneSs at my command
that until men like Weir. Budd and
others OF the big industrialists are
made to obey the law of the land
there is no manner of use in taking
away Blue Eagles from little beauty
shops or corner restaurants"
Tells Of Cancelled Permit. Il
She said officials at Apollo, Pa, near
Pittsburgh, had Cancelled permit for
her to use hall there for a speech
on orders from steel leaders who de-
termined that no meeting to discuss
N. r. A. should be held in their town"
Mrs. Pinchot," McGrady inter-
rupted, "if you in the future desire to
go to any place and opposition de-
velops, I would love to go with you
and rip the curtain off this"
N. r. A., she said. had done quite
bit of good. but she reminded john
son ne had told workers they need not
strike to obtain recognition for their
union and that the Government would
protect them in their rights
Il wonder" she said. raising her
voice, ''if you ever stay awake at night
seeing the faces of the thousands of
men and women who are packing the
streets of Pennsylvania towns, Job.
less and desperate-because they had/
faith in your promises and went aheaq
and organized union-and for s
doing lost their jobs-and never
finger in Washington lifted to help
them