The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-05-28
INDIANA WORKERS ARE IN
DANGER, FEARS NRA HEAD;
STOCK MARKET IN SLUMP
State Compliance Director
Points to Menace in
Front of Labor.
UNION CHIEFTAINS ANGRY
HurI Threats in Meeting:
Business Leaders, How
ever, Are Cheerful.

SNSiS ~ y OiiNSi '0is
Fifty thousand Indiana
workers may be thrown out
of employment due to the de-
cision of the United States
Supreme Court voiding the
NRA, Francis Wells, acting
state compliance director,
said today.
IF code restrictions are ADAM
doned, 1 foresee a wave of cut
throat competition, wage cutting and
hour-cutting that will throw about
$4,000 persons in Indiana out of
jobs" Mr. Wells stated.
More than 100000 workers in
the nation and 5000 in indianapolis
are in danger of losing their jobs by
the Supreme Courts action Assur-
vey made four months after the
NRA began showed that in so In
diana cities $4,000 HOosierS were
given jobs under the NRA,' Mr..
Wells said.
$4,000 Firms Under Codes
The court can annul the NRA,
but it can not annul technilogical
unemployment and reduced pur-
chasing power by a decision. Mr..
Wells continued. The majority of
the people, l am sure, favored the
MIRA as affording them protec-
ton"
OF the $4,000 Indiana firms which
signed up under the Presidents
Recovery Agreement. only few
dropped out when the NRA codes
came into effect, Mr.. Wells said. He
said practically all the major in
duStries in Indiana were under the
Blue Eagle.
Mr. Wells will suspend all NRA
activities pending word from WASH
ington as to the status of his office.
McNutt to Make Decision
Gov Paul V. McNutt said there
will be a decision and statement to-
morrow on the future of the state
NRA law The Governor said that
Fred WeiCking and Joseph Hutchin-
son, deputy attorneys general. had
assured him they will have reached
a decision today and have a pre-
pared statement for publication to-
morrow
Gov. McNutt said it is important
TO have an immediate decision be-
cause of the effect the law has on
state buying The state law re-
quireS vendors TO certify that they
operate under the NRA and that the
goods they sell was manufactured
under the NRA.
All hearings before the Regional
Labor Board have been post
poned until further instructions
from Washington, Robert H. Cow
drill, board chairman. said today.
i believe" Mr. Cowdrill said.
that most Of the employers will
play fair in the matter Of working
hours and wageS-at least 90 per
cent of them always have"
LABOR IN angry Mood
Resentment by organized labor
and jubilatiOn By some business
leaders were the dominant reactions
in Indianapolis and Indiana today
to the breakdown Of NRA under the
impact Of the Supreme Court opin-
ion
AdOlph Fritz, State Federation Of
Labor secretary, John Smith, Gen.
trail Labor Union president. and Ar
thur w Lyday, secretary Of the lat
ter group. all voiced the opinion
that outlawry Of NRA is a step
backward"
The warning that organized labor
will continue to support MIRA, re-
gardleSs Of the Supreme Court rul-
ing, was hurled by Mr.. Smith last
night at the semi-monthly meeting
of Central Labor Union
Denounces Supreme Court
Labor has stood in back Of NRA
and labor now must watch for
'chiselers' until the ruling has been
made clear or Congress passes new
legislation to take the place OF
NRA"
More vehement denunciation Of
the Supreme Court action. coupled
with the warning that labor and
industry are headed for trouble"
was voiced by Mr. Lyday.
All avenues of mediation are cut
of, he said Under the NRA. Mr..
Lyday pointed out, the employe and
employer met on common ground
Of arbitration Of disputed questions.
With NRA dead, these disputes may
reach the violent stage with both
sides using force and newly formed
unions will be the first to feel the
effects Of the new order, he said.
Strikes on all labor fronts are a
distinct possibility. if wages are cut
back to pre-NRA scales. the labor
official feels.
Business increases under NRA and
its general popularity with the rank