| Show News Review of 01 kr x Events 1 Y Tr the World h Yh Y Over 2 v 4 j Johnson Bringing Basic Industries Into Line Under Cod Cods Codes rants ants Banks to Renal Relax Credits C Caff Caffe cl cry to Succeed Welles W V cUes elles in Cuba By EDWARD W. W PICKARD t CODES for tor the oil oU steel and lumber lum ber her industries formulated In Washington Wash ash ashington ington after hot discussions and with great travail tra were agreed to io b by the ya representatives of the Industries and signed b by President resident Roosevelt Roosevelt Roose Roose- velt who thereupon retired to his summer summerhome summerhome home at Hyde de Park Parl a N. N Y to complete his Interrupted vacation But nut General Johnson Indefatigable N R n A chief had to continue a the battling for there remained of the so sop Henry Ford called calc basic basc Industries indus Indus- tries coal coni and automobiles to he be brought under the wings of the blue en eagle le Despite the sometimes angry debates over oyer main points of dl divergence especially the open shop question Johnson was certain the automobile code would be completed within a few fe days Donald Donnld llA general counsel asked that the open shop clause I be r IH o It left doubt as ns to whether the Industry accepted accept accepted ac ac- ac- ac d the collective e bargaining pro pro- vision Islon The motor car manufacturers seemed disposed to agree aglee to this without without with with- out surrendering the policy E Every Ery ry one was anxious to learn what stand Henry Ford would take C but he be maintained deep silence Mr 11 Ford is Js the only large automobile manufacturer man who Is not a member of the National Automobile Chamber of Com Com- merce Hitherto he has Insisted on his right to bargain with his workers without the Intervention of unions That he may alter this policy voluntarily voluntarily volun volun- or otherwise was indicated by dispatches from Edgewater N. 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J which said the employees ces of the Ford assembling plant there were organizing ing lag under the auspices of the American American Amer Amer- ican Jean Federation of Labor In the past Mr r. r Ford has maintained the open shop by meeting or exceeding the thc demands dp- dp mands of or organized labor In pay and working conditions It was thought possible he would adopt a R similar course In the tike matter of the blue eagle cagle code Coal operators according to General Johnson were all displaying a n cooperative cooperative op co-op cooperative spirit that Insured an nn early carly agreement for the bituminous Industry and the representatives es of the miners appeared willing to accept compromises compromises compromises com com- promises on the question In debate BY B r LABOR LABon day the time oil on code will go o Into effect and the Industry generally gener gener- generally ally will support it although It do does s snot not completely satisfy the trade To Toa a nr very limited extent It provides es for price fixing for gasoline Standard Oil of Indiana did not wait walt for the effective effective circe tl tive e date of the thc code Jut but put all its refineries on code schedules of hours enl and wn wages es Tho The part time system wits was abandoned resulting In a 11 13 per cent increase in the total wage pa payment and a n corresponding increase In the tho purchasing power of the refinery emp employees em em- p o ees as o n group Baso p so rates of pf pay in the various refineries re- re fineries were established as prescribed b by the code as ns follows Whiting Ind mud 52 02 cents an hour Wood River flyer cents Sugar Creek Mo 10 48 46 cents halt Kan 48 cents Casper Wyo Wro 50 fiO cents These rhese rates tIre pre for common labor Proportionate adjustments adjust adjust- adjustments ments were ma made e In hi rates for skilled I Ibor labor bor I I Ij j 4 RETAIL dealers who gathered In Johnsons Johnson's office for a hearing on OD their code were warned by hy the admin admIn- admInIstrator administrator that the government go would not countenance unreasonable unreasonable un un- reasonable price inc increases inere in- in c ere creases r e a s se e s and were urged to resist such jobbers who supply them with their theil goods lie said baid the national Industrial recovery act would woul Increase p prices r i Ice c e s to meet new costs im imposed l J posed by compliance with the trade chargers charters char char- r gers ors but Just because Mrs Mm Mary 1 pt pf this there is no Rumsey Ramsey reason renson to tp go way be beyond ond reason If you rou ou d do this you ou Just kill the goose gOOS that la lays s 's the golden egg The hous ho that we are tl trying ing to build will collapse col col- col lapse like a n house bouse ot- ot of car cards nil In lt th j pine blue lu a lp provisions ions Johnson asser a pd rd d that there would be no violence I r no and no ho boycotting ng But t 1 lie said the administration would k F. prove e to uncover cheaters behind tI 1 glue blue eagle an and then we Y jre plC going OI viii 1 i f to I r o e. In ip arm aira tal take c the Ii blue lIlue u e angle e rrt pit R their wit windows ul ws Human luman n nature ture h being what It Is 18 ei e natula naturally I are lots of ll s of M chiseling by pel persons SOliS and c that have e received tin Ill t 1 O It H joe most mast r mm ly io to Mrs In Marl tal 7 II 11 head h m u of if time the c o it tt hc a that ts is supposed to protect the thc con nm though sumer-though though Professor O Ogborn sa says s 's 1 it isn't doing it it and and to President William Wil I liam Haul Green Grcen of the American I Federation Federa edera tion lion of Labor Both of theta them ha leave have organized or or- mi ed s systems stems for watching HIli and I catching the code evaders Mr rr Green Creen has instructed all union men to an nn c eye e on our things throughout the country country coun coun- try and to report to him an any suspected violation of codes he then reports to General Johnson In this way a closer closer closer clos clos- er scrutiny of code colle chiselers than the tIle government could Institute is made possible S SOME OME O time ago Administrator Johnson Johnson John John- son hinted that the banks banIs were rot nut doing their thell part in the cl recovery pro program program rI r- r I gram anI and he has now persuaded ed them to lo relax credit extension conditions and thereby make money money available in time thc channels of general commerce To fo begin with he lie conferred with mem mom members bers belS of the federal reserve e board and Jesse Jones Tones chairman of ot the Finance corporation con con- Continued on page two |
