Show Blue Eagle Use By Small Store Owners Permitted Br Et IS United Press Preset Pr si WASHINGTON Aug 1 Owners l-Owners of small mall stores stares who tend their shops by themselves and have no were granted permission today to display dis play the N R A sign of o the blue eagle Many such shopkeepers had feared they hey might be placed at a disadvantage tage age In competing with larger establishments which had come under the voluntary reemployment agreement gr ement and were displaying the emblem In order to obtain the blue eagle however the one one man man stores must sign the agreement the same as stores with many clerks The minimum wage and maximum hour lour provisions of course will not apply in such cases as the storekeeper er has n no Other sections of the agreement such as the pledge to refrain retrain from profiteering will be binding Coincident with this ruling the theN theN theN N R A asked the public to deal fairly with employers who are arc striving to comply with the agreement but find It i difficult to effect quickly the readjustments read read- which they must make beor be be- for or they can display the blue eagle The N R A recognized that it is hard for or some small stores particularly those hose with only one or two empl yes to make the readjustments in hours at once Following receipt of ot several complaints com com- complaints plaints of unfair use of the blue eagle in in advertising the N R A called attention attention attention at at- to the fact tact that the insignia is the property of ot the government and may be used only b by authority of the N R A. A It asked t the e cooperation cooperation tion of newspapers in preventing use of the emblem in advertisements of companies which have not complied with the reemployment agreement |