Salt Lake Telegram | 1934-05-29 | Page 4 | Service Trade Codes Go

1 I SERVICE TRADE CODES GO SUSPENSION of the fair fail trade practice prof pro- pro f 0 SUSPENSION J visions of seven service trade codes by br General Johnson may be taken tal to signalize the thc of the thc whole cod codi- codi I- I of revamping lc t a It is hardy hardly fic tion setup at Washington will WH see cc such sucha that the country likely however sweeping development as th that t pre predicted d. d d b bR by Y Representative n R Britten Britte Republican n o of Illinois The suspensions lIe he is IS quoted in m In dispatches saying indicate the the expected expected ex ex- cz- cz from Ironi the capital capita as sa cracking up of the thc N R II A. A The industries affected by the suspensions suspensions ions will continue to be bound by the maxi hour and minimum wage terms of th their ir mum codes and employment of child labor is is still proscribed The Tile famed Section 78 labor section section sec sec- tion also remains in force orce The authority for suspension was given by the president General Gen- Gen oral eral Johnson chose the trades to be included in the order order motor motor vehicle storage and parkin parking parking park park- ing in bowling and billiards barber cleaning and find and dyeing J tt shoe rebuilding and amI advertising display installation and distributing It may confidently be expected that the list will vill be added to The trIte experiment of codifying all nIl business could not from the start have Ilave been expected to to work out to the general tion There arc are other service iee trades wherein the codes have failed to work Moreover in cases the codes have not been a practical move in the direction of the recovery tives The case of the small business enterprise is ii yet et to be settled also The Tue Darrow report f J Jo o ld have helped in this direction but it did Inot ot N Nevertheless there is widespread recognition recognition tion of many of the thc claims made by the small business man and sooner or later the thc problem will vill have to be taken faken up f for r handling We Ve may not have codes with us as a permanency per per- but we will retain some same form of control control con con- against the worst vorst evils of unbridled competition corn com petition which impose undue burdens upon the whole hole body of consumers and against which the country has been fighting for or more than thana a quarter of a century There will continue to tobe tobe be bc a ban on socially destructive exploitation of children in industry on sweatshop practices practices practices tices and perhaps man many other ills of tile the economic eco CeO system It would be a mistake though to lo believe that the heavy leavy hand of government is principally principally pally to strike in the direction o of big busi busi- ness It has been generally the case that jn- jn in intolerable n tolerable working conditions slave wages the ivor Worst t features of child labor and numerous other evils have been associated ass with relatively small business enterprises It will win not finally be a case as between bet big business and small business It will be between clean business and dirty business That is all an anyone could ask askan an and l no one could in good conscience oppose such a program The Tue era ahead may turn out ut to be bc as di different dif dif- ferent from that of today as the tile present is unlike t the le pa past t. t We Ve could hardly have expected expect expect- ed ed that in a little over oyer a year ear an anything thing resembling hung bling a permanent national economic policy could have been fashioned from the wreckage and chaos that accumulated between the termination ter ter- of the V World orld war and the inception of the new deal Willingness to abandon or reshape re re- shape hape the recovery program rather than tItan stubbornly stub stub- clinging to impracticalities on principle pie should restore some confidence even in those who have feared from the first that the country was surely on tho the way to a choice as Mr 1 Darrow believes between communism communism or f fascism ism Of or the two there is little doubt as to which 3 he would prefer