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Show CLEAN UP CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY -HOOVER; i I - 1 SCANDAL HAS MADE PUBLIC SICK, HE SAYS Secretary of Commerce Urges Action in Con-struction Con-struction Industry I WAYS POINTED OUT Hoover Assails Business and Labor Practices of Minority CHICAGO, April 14 "The practice of a small minority In the construction construc-tion Industry are unendurable and j must he cleaned up if business and commerce desires protection from the, steady invasion of regulatory hands 1 of the government," said Herlert I Hoover, secretary of commerce. In his address today before the fiftieth an-Inual an-Inual meeting of the National Federation Federa-tion of Construction Industries Th"; secretary said that during tho past ten, months the department of rommercol has given intensive study to the sltua-j tlon in the construction industry and he made the comment "Tlilu situation must he cleaned tin " 1 Conclusions reached in. Ihe department. depart-ment. Mr. Hoover summarized as follows: fol-lows: HIS ( ONCLtTSJfOXS That the Industry needs cleaning and the decent men In the Industry must organize to (lit; that the great indirect Iwastes which are beyond the control of any one Individual man or com .-m iniust be eliminated by associrted action ac-tion and that to accomplish these ends there is needed a cleaner organization of the trades, not the destruction of the trader organisations "In the matter of business and labor la-bor practices of the minority," aid Mr Hoover, "I need not recite the repeated exposure in all directions that have sickened the- public during tho past twelve months. There are other thousands thou-sands who hive not vet been exposed I have no taste lor demagogic statements. state-ments. I do have an aspiration for Constructive remedies. HIM l SSI s DUMBER "Let us take a single material lum-'her lum-'her Several leading manufacturers! Inform me that the time has come when we must have a guarantee against short delivered and fraudulent, alteration of qualities. The product of the honest miller must reach the consumer con-sumer as the manufacturer wishes his product lo reach the consumer. Alao h must have protection from the crooked competitors Man;, commodities commodi-ties are assured as to quanlty and. grade under the Inspection and rules of our voluntary trade associations. If you think It wiser to do so wo could probably secure the enactment ot a pure food law in all building materials. mate-rials. I would much rather see the trades themselves establish their own standards. "We noed a cleaning up In the statistical statis-tical work of tho trade associations Some of this work stands condemned In the courts as a restraint of trade and against public Interest, yet other kinds of statistics aro in the. Interest of the public :i-s well ' |