Show MOP uP DRIVES DRIVE OF N R A BEGINS L Labor bor Advisory Board Meets to Speed Hour Cuts Wage Boosts WASHINGTON April 26 UP- UP Under direction of Recovery Recover AdminIstrator Admin Hugh S S. S Johnson Johnon the N R A moved Thursday into a mop up campaign designed to clear r up a anum num number ber or of pending matters On the N R A pro program ram were A conference of the N R A labor advisory board Thursday to seek means of speeding up the drive for general 10 per cent working hours reductions and 10 per cent wage in creases An effort to promulgate ate a code for forthe forthe I the anthracite industry during durin the next week General Gener l John Johnson on will confer con con- fer with anthracite leaders as soon as last det details of t the bituminous mattel matto mat tel to are arc taken care or of Renewed se search r h for a 3 m means means' ans' ans of oC controlling prices Labor board members believe the 10 and 10 provision can be applied ap- ap plied piled to the cotton garment arment code the thc mach machine ne tool and die code and several other industrial groups The cost control effort was spurred by an attack by the consumers consumers' ad board and research and planning plan plan- ning on proposed rate sta provisions ot of the shipping code Motor Head Opposes r Mandatory Work Week BOSTON April 6 61 1 Alfred Jr-AIfred Po P Sloan Jr president of General Motors Mo tors corporation is not in harmony with the proposal for lor a mandatory mandator hour H-hour week He Hc sa says s 's he believes collective c bargaining bar bar- gaining a step forward in American industrial life and he also alo ors favors the proposal now before congress to place in iii the presidents president's hands the authority to deal M as a business man with other countries with respect to foreign trade I 1 am entirely out of harmony harmon with the thought that the number of at man hours of labor is definite and that th the unemployment question is b solved by dividing the number of man hours by the number of workers work work- ers No greater fallacy e. e exist isLo Around this thinking COmes the proposal for fora a mandatory thirty hour week I do donot donot not believe in the thc principle underlying under under- lying that proposal Mr Sloan said |