Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-05-30
Cuts i'm Prices
Offset by
RctentiOns.
STRIKES LOOM
If PAY DROPS
Business Men Of
Nation Seek to
KeepGains.
BY the Associa ted Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, May 30.-The legal
death of N r. AS Blue Eagle was
marked today by reports of a spread
in price cutting, but many industrial
and business leaders continued to
give assurance that wages and hours
of employment would remain I'M
changed despite the Supreme Courts
knockout" blow
Price cutting was reported in New
York, Kansas City and Los Angeles
with the removal Of code restrictions.
and there we're several OBJECTIONS
from the general rule of industries
that agreed to prolong the Blue
Eagles standards on voluntary
hasls-notably. ar Greenville. S. C.
where the Piedmont Shirt Co. an
nounced wage reduction averaging
IS per cent and an increase in work
ing hours to from 36 to 40 and ~
q week.
Threats Of general strike Of about
5000 garment workers were voiced In
St. Louis by officials of the Interna-
tional Ladies Garment Workers Union
if manufacturers in this line dis
regard the wage and hour conditions
that existed under the NJ R. A. Meyer
Perlstein, international vice president
Of the organization. made the an
nouncement
Cigarette Prices slump.
The price cutting In New York sent
cigarette prices TO as low as 50 cents
q carton. and there also was some
price cutting in the Nations me-
tropolis on books. cosmetics and liquors.
With the cuts came the charge that
virtually the entire fur industry had
abandoned the 3S-hour week and was
working unlimited overtime. 1t was
promptly denied by spokesman for
the fur workers union.
Other developments Included.
The Pacific Coast Petroleum Agency.
organized q year ago to stop gasoline
price cutting wars. suspended opera
tons.
The departure of s. c. Lamport.
New York textile manufacturer and
wholesale cotton goods exporter. for
Boston in quest of support from Gov
James NJ Curley for his plan for a
national maximum hour minimum
wage schedule
Kellogg to Keep Wages.
From Battle Greek. Mich. came
word that w. K Kollogg. president OF
the Kellogg Co. said his concern
would continue present wage scales
adding, we have found this policy
~ hi
beneficial to our employees and the
company"
Tampa. Fla, cigar manufacturers
would continue N r. A. wages and
working conditions. A. l.. Cuesta, ir.,
president of the Cigar Manufacturers
Association Of Tampa, announced.
In New York. Grover A. Whalen
said about 100000 employees in retail
stores of the metropolis would con-
tinue working under the present hour
and wage schedules of the N. r. A.
retail code.
Firmness Urged in Baltimore.
Adam J. Hazlett. president of the
Baltimore Association of Commerce,
urged all member firms to maintain
N. r. A. codes until guidance" comes
from Washington.
In Chicago the Board Of the Ma
tional Association of Retail Druggists
adjourned yesterday without selecting
a plan to supplant the N. r. A.. but
appealed to I'll State druggists asso-
Citations to aid in stabilizing prices.
B. E. Henderson, president of the
Household Finance Corp. said in Chi
cago that invalidation of the N. r. A.
would have no effect on the hours and
wages of employees of the concern. and
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