Show I In Rush InRush Rush to Obtain inN R A Insignia Insign I x tji 3 t- t I I u. More lore than fifty employers were waiting In line when hen th the postoffice opened Tuesday morning to receive the N R. R A emblems Left LeU to lo right are C. C A. A Crockwell Croc assistant superintendent of malls giving out the Insignia insignia in In- In signia C C. W. W V. V Edgington Edgington ton Auto shop J 3 A. A Leavitt W. W H H. flints Co Roy Boy S. S Davis Temple Square barber shop and nd S S. S W W. Hu Hughes of ot the Standard Market 1 company Sellers Sellers' C Code de May Open Million Jobs Food Dealers to Run on Hour 48 Week Other Other Oth- Oth er Classes on 40 Hour 40 Hour Basis By JAMES COPE Associated Press Press' Staff Writer VASH WASHINGTON Aug 1 1 A million new jobs jobs- scattered through retail shops big and small from end to end of the country were held possible today because Hugh S. S Johnson industrial administrator had ordered into immediate effect I reducing hour-reducing wage-raising wage agreements p presented by bythe the tl e na na- na-I na tion s storekeepers Dwarfing even the agreements of fair lair practice of steel and oil the new codes had l swept into the industrial control movement all the organized dealers in foodstuffs furniture clothing clothing cloth cloth- ing shoes hardware dry goods department de dc stores specialty shops and I mail mall order houses The door was open to the thousands thou thousands sands of retailers of-retailers not mem members ers of any association to join the subscribing groups or or- orto to come in through the lin in- in individual voluntary presidential agreement agree agree- men ment l Officials estimated that application of these codes would provide new jobs that the retail lines represented represented employ men and women The food dealers by Johnsons Johnson's order order or or- der will have a hour 48 work week the rest just 40 The grocery clerks will have an hour eight day day- except the he day just before holidays and an additional 12 da days s each six months when they themay may work 10 hours SCALE OF WAGES The Thc scale of minimum wages for tor food dealers is 15 in cities over 1450 between and 14 H between 2500 and The nonfood retailers had a minimum scale a a dollar lower with a further 1 redu reduction tion for the 15 15 southern states and the th District of Columbia The Continued on Pa Pass Two Fw i t CODE conE MAY OPEN Si MILLION JOBS continued T r om cm T rue rise s On One OM same regional reduction applies to S the food dealers deater Buides Besides the w wage ge terms erms the two codes called for tor maintenance of o a minimum o of oC 52 hours' hours operation unless un un- less Jess recent practice was lower and they bar all child labor except those over 14 for three hours between 7 a aT m m. m and 7 p. p m. m More rore Int Interpretations were were- made available today to speed questioners into signing the general voluntary agreements All An news men editors and reporters alike lUke together with nurses and hospital technicians tech were lumped into the professional pro pro- category and therefore exempt ex ex- ex- ex limits Win Window empt from work hour dow dw cleaners and charwomen were called so-called white Included in the hour 40 collar class which h ranges range from cler and banking to delivery ery men S Nonprofit as associations were defined us ItS z employers for purposes ctt of or the act Provision was made for the smallest establishments establishment run by the owner owner without help to obtain the N R A Ac c eagle gle poster b by signing the agreement arid certificate ot of compliance A quick spread pread of oC the retail code Is being sought with expectation that soon Joon every type of ot public sales les a agency enc will be blanketed under its terms A A m major j r development following the order which brought the majority of dry dg goods department store clothing shoe lio and furniture de dealers lers as 85 well as ns food dealers into two temporary a agreements agreements agree agree- ree- ree m ments to remain in force until hearings hearings hear hear- ings are arc held was presentation of ofa 3 a separate code to cover the country's country s 5 and 10 10 cent ent stores This was s stated sted ted authoritatively to toS S S call caU for tor longer work hours and lower I wages wages' than the general Jeneral retail agree ment No concession however was in sight from the administration One official said MUST FACE LIMIT They must all aU come conic under the 40 hour work limit except food tood dealers That i Includes cl des drug stores They have not yet et presented their code form form formally for for- m mally lly but we have told them that the they can use the professional category cx ex exemption emption from hour limitation for their pharmacists p and arid for tor the rest they must keep the 40 hours hour S If Jf they can actually separate the theS end of their b business that section S rp rpy y be run under the hour 48 limit of the food dealers dealers' code Restaurants also have not been heard from officially but the understanding was as that Johnson Jahnson would seek to have them also keep the 48 limitation While this this' concentrated effort to bring g the Uie millions ns of small employing establishments under permanent and md b binding codes was in progress K M. M Simpson deputy 1 Jn i. charge of steel el was carrying g on private conferences I with leaders of the industry and advisers ad to seek seeka a final decision on the steel agreement discussed in open hearing Monda Monday There was some ome expectation the flexible 4 hour 40 hour work week proposed by the n as an ail era a average e to be betaken betaken betaken taken over each six months' months period might nIght be tightened to furnish a definite definite deti nite limitation on the hours that any man would be required to put in dur ing o e week S JOHNSON SEEKS SPEED 1 Johnson n n a C W o s peed hearings on on automobiles coal and other industries which have filed Wed cod cods codes s. s A new new hearing was under way today on millinery a line employing around persons mostly in the big biJ cities R R. V w. w Lea the most recent addition to the staff stat of deputy administrators has been selected by Johnson to conduct con con- duet duct the hearing on the automobile code i He came back from Europe Europe last week tek yeek sooner than he had expected at the Joh Johnson on As a colonel in lit the army h he worked with Johnson during the World war and has been intimately in associated with him In various vadous enterprises since Expecting It to put over additional addi people to work the president at Hyde Park N N. Y V. signed the wool textile code providing a hour 40 week eck eckfor for the workers in th this industry with minimum wa wages cs of 14 M weekly in the north and 13 in the south Spokesmen for lor the la laundry industry went to the administration today seekIng seeking seek seek- ing InJO temporary ee effectiveness for a code to cover more than Because o of the fall tall in th the laundry business due to washing bc being ns done at home In recent years cars the thc laundry laundr owners owners contended they were vere financially financially finan finan- daIly unable to comply with th the terms of the presidents president's agreement ment There was no indication yet whether concessions would be made because of this and the laundry men be permitted to put their own code into effect pending pending pend pend- ing consideration of it it using the blue blueeagle blueeagle eagle meanwhile CAMPAIGN C. ADVANCES In th the meantime the campaign for lor voluntary agreements to raise wages and limit hours was advancing all over the country Telegrams from postmasters and district dis offices told a story stor of oC mounting totals of a agreements signed r I However reports also were that the number of oC questions needing answer before merchants and business men could sign was growing steadily Several Several Several Sev Sev- eral chambers of commerce reported retaining ning specialists to study the agreements agree agreements ments and interpretations issued b by bythe the administration so as sto to give si their members correct information A zinc code was submitted to the administration last week by the spokesmen spokes spokes- men for the industry but its contents are still being withheld It is is' isone one of several se hundred proposed pro pro- proposed posed a agreements presented by various industries which have not been made public and pending official announcement announcement announcement announce announce- ment the administration declined to give out any wy of the terms Word has reached the administration that a copper code is being drafted in New York and probably will vill be completed com corn within a few days das |