Evening star., 1938-10-21
PRESIDENT HALLS
ANDREWS REPORT
Disposition Of Employers to
Comply With Law Held
Gratifying.
By the Associated Press.

HYDE PARK. N, Y, Oct. 2l-
President Roosevelt was informed to-
day by Elmer Andrews, Federal wage
hour administrator, that there had
been such general disposition on the
part of employers to comply with the
wage-hour law that it was hoped intra-
state industries would voluntarily ac-
cept the standards set up for inter-
state firms.
The President termed the report
very gratifying.
At the same time, he said at a press
conference the action of the last Con-
gress in delegating authority to revise
and simplify Federal Court procedure
had resulted in amazing success and
was method that should be followed
In reorganizing Government depart
ments.
Regarding the wage-hour law, Mr..
Roosevelt said that while only inter-
state industries could legally come
under the law establishing minimum
wages and maximum hours. local con-
Germs could voluntarily adopt the
standard.
The President also described as a
favorable business sign the action by
General Motors in re-employing 35 900
furloughed workers and readjusting
wage cuts
He said it was a very delightful
event and should have a tendency to
cut down relief spending.
Notes Increase in Tourists.
Reading from an Interior Depart
ment report, he also noted an ap-
proxinate $50 per cent increase in
the number of persons visiting Ma
tionai parks, saying this factor could
be taken as another indication Of the
condition of the country
The report, from Urdersecretary
Harry Slattery, listed the park visitor
figures as follows:
1884 - 6,337oo0. 1885 - 7.676,OOO,
1e36-1l, $4,000. 1s37-l5.l33ooo and
193S-thus far, l6233.000.
The President. in reply to questions
about the new Federal budget, said he
would take up estimates for depart
ments next Monday or Tuesday with
Acting Budget Dlrecto. Daniel w.
Bell, and that he had asked the Treas
ury official to bring along his blue
pencil
Regarding tie reoreanizing of de-
partments. the President related how
Congress. at his request. had dele
gated the simplifica ton job to a group
of Federal Judges and retained the
right to veto their recommendations.
The last Consress adjourned without
taking veto action. thus permitting the
new sweeping rules, effective October
l, to bring about speedier justice in
the Federal courts.
The President said the Government
reorganization program. defeated in
the last session, was parallel, and
that the practice of delegating such
technical jobs might be followed on
a good many other administrative gov
ernmental problems.
He said court rules were essentially
an administrative problem and If
Congress itself had attempted the SIM
h1Iu Sooh
there probably never would have been
a revision.
Mr.. Roosevelt has used the same
arguments in asking that Congress
give him authority to reorganize Gov
ernment departments, with Congress
having the veto power over his ac-
tlons.
Elated Over Results.
He described the revision of court
rules, which WIS part of his Inflated
court reorganization bill, as the most
drastic thing that ever happened in
administrative reform and said all
lawyers practicing in Federal courts
were elated over the results.
The President described the action
of Congress in setting up the judicial
commission as the practical way Of
accomplishing administrative reform.
He added it was the principle and
objective and what he had been say
Ing all along about Government re-
rganizatlon-giving the people the
right to bring in new rules and grant,
ing Congress the right to veto them
within a given time.