| Show CODE POINTS POINTS' RISE IN INSOFT SOFT COAL PRICES Shorter Hours Higher Wages Will Boost Costs Producers Pro Declare JOHNSON FAVORS FAVORS MOVE Roosevelt Eliminates Labor Proposal By fly Fresi W WASHINGTON Sept SepU 19 19 Now Now that the code to g govern ve n future operations o of the or-the the soft coal industry indus Indus- try try has has been promulgated to take effect October 2 2 coal operators rs and anti N R B A officials expect an increase increase in crease crease in the retail price of bituminous bituminous bituminous bitu bitu- minous coal after that date The National Coal association said today higher prices higher prices were Inevitable inevitable in In- evitable because shorter hours and higher wages called for lor un under under der the code would bring in increased increased increased in- in creased costs of production Officials of the association also pointed to the thc codes code's provisIon provision provision pro pro- vision prohibiting selling below the cost of 01 production as a factor actor in the impending increase Hugh S. S Johnson industrial re recovery recovery recovery re- re covery administrator during negotiation negotiation negotiation ne ne- ne- ne of the code declared it would be he reasonable to lift th the retail price of coal back to the level of three or four tour years ago In fact act he said ald Id stand for forts its ts' ts going up as 35 much as 2 a aton aton ton though though- 1 donot expect that expect that it 11 will S WASHINGTON Sepi Sept 19 Re fPh-Re tail price control supplanted soft coal as N R As A's big problem Hugh S. S Johnson was in the midst of ot this Job pressing for completion oia ofa ofa of oi a master charter to embrace all aU re retail retail re- re tail tall trades with their hundreds of oi thousands of stores and millions of oi within a single fair competition competition compe compe- code Outstanding among its issues waS vas a proposal to stabilize retail re i-c- re- re tail Lail prices at 10 per cent above wholesale wholesale wholesale whole whole- sale costs President Roosevelt's promulgation of the long-disputed long bituminous coal code freed Johnson for tor int intensive work on the retail agreement and for tor planning the Buy Now c campaign through which the administration hopes lopes soon to increase consumption Mr Roosevelt's pen last night made the he coal code effective October 2 But before he signed edthe the chief chIc executive executive tive live made certain alterations which included elimination of a provision organized labor charged sought to in interpret in- in its collective bargaining guarantee guarantee guarantee guar guar- antee under the the- r recovery overy law Because it is evident Mr Roosevelt Roosevelt Roosevelt Roose Roose- velt said that attempts by those submitting submitting sub sub- codes to interpret section 7 a of the national ind industrial recovery y act have led to confusion and misunderstanding standing such Interpretations should not be incorporated in codes of fair competition Therefore paragraph b of article live five must be eliminated without by this his exclusion indicating disapproval in any way war of the joint statement of the administrator and general coun- coun Continued on Pate Pare Six CODE p POINTS RISE IN SOFT COAL PRICES Continued from Pue ParC One sel set of the national recovery administration administration adminis- adminis which has been attached to the code as schedule B and was in incorporated incorporated incorporated in- in by reference in said paragraph paragraph para pam graph B D of ot article five Johnson termed the coal code the greatest accomplishment of his hit ad ad- ministration n. n William Green president president president dent of th the American Federation of Labor and John JohnL L. L Lewis president of the United Mine Workers both of whom had opposed the labor language stricken out by Mr Roosevelt promIsed promised prom- prom sed every possible co cooperation to tomake tomake tomake make the code a success The president inserted in the coal agreement a provision requiring the submission of ot all statistical data re reQuired required re- re by any government agency He added language to permit him to name three additional members to the he bituminous s coal board originally planned to number 14 five of whom would have been presidential ions The price control provision was was' wase Re Responsible ire ire- e- e for much of the great im im- ortance attached by Johnson to the e retail trade code ode What the administrator administrator adminis adminis- recommends to Mr Roosevelt on this point and what the president approves was was was' expected to provide provId an exposition of the administrations administration's policy policy pol- pol icy cy on on price e fixing ELIMINATES NATES SECTION The coal code section eliminated by the president said in part The plain meaning of section cannot be changed by any int I tation by anyone It is the function of the administrator and the courts to apply and interpret the law in its ad ad- ministration The words open shop and closed shop are not used in the law and cannot be written into the law These words have no agreed meaning arid and will be erased from the dictionary of bf the The law requires In codes and agreements that shall have havethe havethe the he right to organize and bargain collectively col- col through representatives of th their hir ir own choosing This can c'an mean thing which is that can choose anyone they desire to represent them or or they can choose to represent them them- selves Employers likewise can make collective bar bargains ains with organIzed organIzed organ- organ zed or individual agreements agreements agreements agree agree- ments with those who choose to act IndivIdually The liThe law does not prohibit the existence ex ex- of a local labor organization which may be called a company union m. m But it does prohibit any employer rom requiring as a condition to employment employment em- em that any join a company union Printing Code Study tudy Brings rings Disagreement W WASHINGTON S Sept pl 19 ff JP Em Em Employer and employ disagreed vigorously vigor today before the N R A over whether a n hour hour 40 work week for the printing ir industry would eliminate unemployment un uni employment W Wage Vage ge differentials between various vari van ous oils sections of the country were held necessary by L. L A. A Ireland representing represent represent- ing lag the San Francisco Printers Board of Trade Costs in California are higher than other sections Ireland asserted because because be be- cause of state minimum wage laws H. H O. O Owen who closed shop in Chic Chicago go asserted in hearings on printing industry codes that 40 hours would be bea a sufficient reduction to substantially increase employment employ employ- ment mont Owen argued against flexibility embodied em- em bodied in most of the odd 20 codes now pending holding that if employers employ employ- ers could work men inca 48 hours in one week they would find ways of doing that Instead of employing new men E. E F. F Barvoets of Albany representing represent represent- ing lag the Capital District T insisted that during the emergency there should be a temporary hour 35 week Forty hours would not relieve unemployment un ira- employment he testified It lilt would not be in the spirit of the national industrial recover recovery act |
