Show Retail Code Rushed I Despite esp te Pleas For Delay From Advisory Board ii Dy Associated Freu WASHINGTON Sept 11 Despite 11 Despite pleas for delay from N R B As A's consumers consumers consumers' consumers consumers' con con con- sumers' sumers advisory advisor board the retail code covering code covering more workers and more individual employers employers' establishments establishments establishments establish establish- ments than any other trade compact wAs vIta was being prepared today for presentation pres pres' presentation to Administrator Hugh S S. Johnson tonight or tomorrow with the hope that President Roosevelt could sign it within a day or two While the muddle over o the new bituminous coal conI code drafted by b- Johnson continued tending tomorrows tomorrow's public hearing Deputy Administrator Arthur D D. Whiteside was finishing n a report of ot the retail a agreement which carries a requirement require require-i ment meat that prices be at least 10 per percent percent percent cent more than the invoice cost of ot goods The c consumers consumers' board had asked that this provision be studied carefully carefully care care- fully tully because of possible conse onse consequences orise- orise QU nc s of such a price rice control pol pol- t ft icy but Whiteside r resolved not to delay the agreement Whether Johnson with the theco co coal l problem on his hands would be able to pass upon t tie the e retail code and lay It before the president quickly however however how how- ever was not definite Coal activities centered on the drafting of union contracts to regulate regulate regu regu- late relations between tho the hitherto nonunion operators of 01 the North and South Appalachian areas and the United Mine Workers who claim to have Organized these areas com corn Johnson appeared at his office today to day looking cheerful and optimistic despite the barrage of ot objections fired at his code by the big mine operating groups and the threat of ot new strikes in Pennsylvania mines H He clung to the expressed expectation e of ot winning an a agreement on the code rather than having to impose one upon the Industry industry indus Indus- try and thus invite a court test of the Industrial control law which might hamper the entire program I |