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THOUSANDS PLEDGE AD FOR RECOVERY Ohief Executive Encouraged by Respense to His Plea to Nation. (Continued From First Page.) have not already done so—the big fel- lows snd the little fellows—shall at once write or telegraph to me personally at the White House, expressing their in- tention of going through with the plan.” ‘They did, big fellows and little. One of the big ones was Harvey S. Fire- stone, who pledged to put the program into effect immediately. While the mass movement was off, beating the gun on the campaign which gets under way officiaily day after tomor- row and seeks to have 6,000,000 men re- employed by Labor day, with increased wages for those who now have jobs, Johnson and a corps of lieutenants| worked away at & collection of difficult| problems—continued and new hearings | on codes of fair competition, complaints ot widespread discrimination by indus- tries against union sympathizers, puz- sling requests for interpretations of the |sity would fail, and, therefore, that a blanket re-emplovment agreement. The Administration’s Labor Advisory Committee sought Johnson's consent to issuing & public warning to employers | who discriminate against and discharge | workers of union tendencies | To deal demands for clarifica- tion of the “blanket code,” a special committee headed by Gen. Thomas H. Hammond, new director of the re- | employment campaign, was set up to-| day. Questions should be sent direct to him, and will be answered personally. | Selfish Interests Warned. | ‘The President’s address served clear warning that selfish interest is not going to be let stand in the way of the re- employment drive, and that he is satis- fled the blanket agreement is fair to all. | “Shere are, of course, men, a few of them, who might thwart this great com- | mon purpose by seeking selfish advan- | tage.” he said. “There are adequate | penalties in the law, but I am now | asking the co-operation that comes | from opinion and from conscience. These are the only instruments we ahall use in this great Summer offensive | sgainst unemployment. i “But we shall use them to the limit | to protect the willing from the laggard | snd to make the plan succeed.” | ‘With this statement he joined the fol- | lowing: | “You can look on every employer who adopts the plan as one who is doing ' his part, and those employers deserve | well of every one who works for a living. It will be clear to you, as it is to me, that while the shirking em- ployer may undersell his competitor, the saving he thus makes is made at | the expense of his country’s welfare.” It was a deliberate urging to patronize | only establishments on the “roll of honor,” those that have the right to dkphgolhe Dblue eagle with the legend: | “We Our Part.” The President heeded a number of | requests for & word to labor against stirring up strife: “While we are groat eommon effort there e no dis- | cord and dispute. This 15 no time to | cavil or L‘:u s the lllflflll'dx set this versal agreement. i 3l and_eo- 5 of this country have “The wollks wnder \w which cahnot be away from , and nobody will e permitted to whittle them away, but, on the other hand, no aggression is tain those rights.” | now necessary to Discrimination Seen. | Meanwhile, however, reports of wide- spiead discrimination against unlon- fration of labor in many industries set | industrisl administration officials to | wmh:&:um of ending strife be- | tween and oy employers. Dr. Leo Wolman, chief of the Labor Advisory Board, said there was every indication of prejudice being shown, with employers diseharging and other- | wise hampering the unionizing which | is specifically authorized in the re- covery act, - | These reports came into the office of Gen. Johnson along with fmm' interests in Detroit, San cisco and Denver against the provisions of the bianket voluntary wage-raising and hour-limiting agreement proposed by President Roosevelt. From the Detroit Retail Merchants’ Association came a long telegram to Johnson asserting s 48-hour week was the shortest the mercantile industry should employ and predicting that the 40-hour limitation specified by the Chief Executive would unduly raise | costs to the buying public. Also they sought consideration of minimum ‘wages below the $15 to $12 for junior employes, who, they said, received less than that even in 1928. The garage division of San Fran- cisco's Automobile Repair Association said the blanket agreement would hlnk-[ rupt garages because of competition from private garages, all-night parking | lots and inability to enforce municipal ordinances. This telegram said San | Francisco garages have been working | floor men 80 hours a week for 20 years| and are now paying as low as $10 ‘weekly. Johnson to Get Problem. From Denver, the Sweetbriar Shops, | Inc., said the code would work un- bearable hardships on small, struggling | merchants in towns from 3.000 to 15 000 population serving strictly agri- cultural areas. Last night's radio address was Pres dent Roosevell's third heart-to-heart | talk to the people of the Nation since he became President. He spoke from the oval room of the White House over & Nation-wide hook-up of both large broadcasting chains. He started at 9:30 pm. and finished half an hour later. | He started this important message %0 the people by giving & brief sum- mary of the fundamentals of his ad- ministration’s planning for national recovery. He wanted the people to know st the start, he said, that all of the proposals and all the legislation since March 4 have not been just a collec- tion of haphazard schemes, but rather the orderly component parts of a con- nected and logical whole. He stated that long before his inauguration he was convinced that individual effort and local effort and even disjointed Pederal effort had failed and of neces- sity would fail, and therefore a round- ed leadership by the Pederal Govern- ment had become & necessity both™of | theory and of fact. “Such leadership, however, had its beginning in preserving and strength- ening the credit of the United States/ Government, because without that no leadership was a possibility,” Mr. Roosevelt explained. , “For years the| Government had not lived within its income. The immediate task was to bring our regular expenses within our revenues. That has been done.” He then explained why it had been necessary to spend billions for an emergency while the Government itself ‘was retrenching. He summed this up by saying that it was not as incon- sistent as it ,appeared and that throughout it all, the credit of the Na- tion had Deen kept. This was the base of the whole recovery plan, he said. PAPER ADOPTS 35 HOURS Reed, Parson, Kans., Sun Editor, Sends Wire to President. PARSONS, Kans. July 25 (A).— Former Gov. Clyde M. Reed, editor of the .Parson Sun, sent a telegram to President Roosevelt saying “my ne | Por this reason large numbers of peo- | | and interest charges mpr subscribés fully to your p’n)g‘ o\;-} very. We announce & weekfipday.” of the newspaper. .were | either on s seven-hour day. - Text of President Roosevelt’s . Radio - CHIEF EXECUTIVE CALLS ON ALL EMPLOYERS TO CO-OPERATE UNDER:NEW The text of President Roosevelt's speech ‘last night follows: After the adjournment of the his- torical special session of the Congress five weeki ago I purposely refrained from addressing you for two very good Teasons. First, I think that we all wanted the opportunity of a little quiet thought to examine and assimilate in a mental picture the crowding events of the 100 days which has been devoted to the starting of the wheels of the new deal. Secondly, I wanted a few weeks in which to set up the new administrative organization and to see the first fruits of our careful planning. I think it will interest you if @ set forth the fundamentals of this plan- ning for national recovery, and this I am very certain will make it abundant- 1y clear to you that all of the proposals and all of the legisiation since the 4th day of March have not been just a collection of haphasard schemes but rather the orderly component parts of a connected and logical whole. Preserving Credit First Step. Long before insuguration day I be- came convinced that individual effort and local effort and even disjointed Federal effort had failed and of nect rounded leadership by the Federal Gov- ernment had become a necessity both of theory and of fact. Such leader- ship, however, had its beginning in pre- serving and strengthening the credit of the United States Government, because without that no leadership was a possi- bility. For years the Government had not lived within its income. The im-| mediate task was to bring our rel\llll', expenses within our revenues. That| has been done. 1 It may seem inconsistent for a go ernment to cut down its regular ex: penses and at the same time to borrow loans which will be repaid to the Treas- | | ury over a period of years, and to cover the rest of the gmergency money we have imposed taxes to pay the interest | and the installments on that part of | the debt. | So you will see that we have kept our credit good. We have built a gran- | ite foundation in a period of confusion. | That foundation of the Federal credit | stands there broad and sure. It is the | base of the whole recovery plan. Then came the part of the problem | that concerned the credit of the indi- | vidual citizens themselves. You and I know of the banking crisis and of the great danger to the savings of our people. On March 6 every national bank was closed. One month later 90 per cent of the deposits in the national banks had been made available to the | depositors. Today only about 5 per cent of the deposits in national banks are still tied up. Frosen Deposits Reduced. | ‘The- vondition relating to State banks, ‘while not quite so good on & percentage basis, is showing s steady reduction in the total of frozen deposite—a result much better than we had expected three months ago. ‘The problem of the credit of the indi- | vidual was made more difficult because of another fact. The dollar was a dif- ferent dollar from the one with which the average debt had been incurred. | ple were actually losing possession of | and title to .their farms and homes. | All of you know the finsncial steps| which have been taken to correct this | inequality. In addition, the home loan rm loan act and the bank- Tuptcy act were passed. It was a vital necessity to restore purchasing power by reducing the debt | our people. But, while we were hewing people. 1o save their credit it was at time absolutely essential to do some: thing about the physical needs of hun- dreds of thousands who were in dire | straits at that very moment. i Municipsl and State aid were being stretched to the limit. We appropriated | half a billion dollars to supplement their efforts and in addition, as you know, we have put 300000 young men into practical and useful work in our for- | ests and to prevent flood and 3oil| erosion. The wages they earn ar going in greater part to the support | of the mearly 1.000,000 people who con stitute their families. Public Works Program. | In this same classification we can properly place the great public works | program running to a total of over $3,000,000,000—to be used for high- ys and ships and flood prevention | and inland navigation and thousands | of self-sustaining State and municipal | improvements. Twe points should be made clear in | the allotting and administration of these | projects—first, we are using the utmost | care to choose labor creating quick acting, useful projects, avoiding th smell of the pork barrel; and secondly we are hoping that at least half of | the money will come back to the Gov- ernment from projects which will pay for themselves over a period of years. Thus far I have spoken primarily of | the foundation stones—the measures | that were necessary to re-establish credit and to head people in the op- posite direction by preventing distress and providing as much work as poasible through governmental agencies. Now I come to the links which will build us_a more lasting prosperity. I have said that we cannot sattain that in & Nation half boom and half broke. If all of our people have work and fair wages and fair profits, they can buy the products of their neigh- bors and business is good. But if you take away the wages and the profits of half of them, business is only halfl as good. It doesn’t help much if the for- ate half is very prosperous—the best ay is for everybody to be reasonably Pprosperous. Purchasing Power Cut. For many years the two great bar- riers to a normal prosperity have been low farm prices and the creeping | paralysis of unemployment. These fac- tors have cut the purchasing power of the country in half. I promised action. Congress did its part when it passed the farm d the industrial recovery acts. Today we -are putting shese tWDI scts to work and they will work if people understand their plain objectives. First, the farm act: It is based on the fact that the purchasing power of nearly half our population depends on adequate prices for farm products. We have been producing more of some crops than we consume or can sell in a depressed world market. The cure is not to groduca so much. ‘Without our help the farmers cannot get logether and cut production, and the farm bill gives them a method of bringing *heir production down to 2 reasonable level and of obtaining rea- sonable pricés for their crops. F have clearly stated that this method is ln‘ a sense experimental, but so far as we have gone we have reason to be- lieve that it will produce good results. It is obvious that if we can greatly increase the purchasing power of the tens of millions of Qur people who make a living from farming and the dis- tribution of farm crops, we will greatly increase the consumption of those goods which are turned out by industry. That brings me to the final step— l;rln!lnz back industry along sound lines. United Action Necessary. Last Autumn, on several occasions, I expressed my faith that we can make possible by democratic self-discipline in industry general increases in wages and shortening of hours sufficient to enable industry to pay its own workers m:f: to let those workers buy and use things that their labor produces. This can be done only if we permit and encoul co-operative action id industry because it is obvious that with- mu u:ned lffil‘?n a le"'le“llhh 'Itl:rn each competitive group pay. vation wages and insist hours of work. hers amust {ollow. -suit..or. close .up. shop. We have seen the result of action of President Roosevelt, Gen. Hugh 8 | and to spend billions for an emergency. industrial recovery unit of the Government, and Mrs. Johnson, But it is not inconsistent because a ' before the Chief Executive made his radio appeal to the large portion of the emergency money ' immediate enrollment of all employers under the blanket agreement to | has been paid out in the form of sound wages and create new jobs. . P, High Lights President’s Plea for Co-operation Puts Success of Program on Shoulders of Employers of Labor in By the Associated Press. Some of the President Roose- velt said in his request for co-operation in the re-employment movement: “The blanket (pay-raising, work- shortening) agreements which I am semding to every emplover will start the wheels turning now, and not six months from now.” “This Nation-wide attack on unem- ployment * * * will succeed if our people understand it. * * * It goes back to the basic idea * * * that le act- ing in a group can accomplish things which no individual acting alone could even hope to bring about.” “If all employers in each competitive group agree to pay their workers the same wages—reazonable wages—and re- quire the same hours—reasonable hours —then higher wages and shorter hours will hurt no employer.” “In war * * * soldiers wear a bright | badge on their shoulders to be sure that comrades do not fire on comrades. * * * Those who | must know each other at a glance. * * * We have provided a badge of honor for this purpose, a simple design with & legend, ‘We do our pars,’ and I ask that all those who join with me shall display that badge prominently.” “There are, of course, men, & few of them, who might thwart this great common purpose By secking selfish ad- vantage. * * * The co-operation that comes from opinion and conscience * * ° are the only instruments we shall use in this great Summer offensive against unem ent.” “It 18 obvious that if we can greatly increase the purchasing power of the tens of millions of our people who make a living from farming and the distribu: tion of farm crops, we will tly in- crease the consumption of tm goods which are turned out by industry.” “I (have) expressed my faith that we can make possible rate in this program | by democratic self- | cess. Johnson, the man who is running the , photographed | Nation last night for | Taise | Photo. | of Address » | discipline in industry general increases | in wages and shortening of hours suf- ficient to enable industry to pay its own | | workers enough to let those workers buy | and use the things that their labor | produces. “s * ¢ Tt is obvious that without | united action a few selfish men in each | competitive group will pay starvation wages and insist on long hours of work Others in that group must either follow suit or close up shop. We have seen the result of action of that kind in the continuing descent into the eco- nomic hell of the past four yea | “On the basis of this simple principle | of everybody doing things together, we are starting out on this Naticn-wide at- tack on unemployment. It will succeed |if our people understand it.” — N | _ Avolshment of child labor “makes me personally happier thafh any other | | one thing ‘with which I have been con- | nected since I came to Washington.” “We are not going through another | | Winter like the last.” | | Opfnion and consctence “are the only | instruments we shall use in this Sum- ! mer offensive against unemployment. But we shall use them to the limit to protect the willing from the laggard | | and to make the plan succeed.” | | S | | “It is my purpose to keep posted in the post office of every town a roll of | honor of all those who join with me.” | “You can look on every employer who adopts the plan as one who is doing his part, and those employers deserve well of every one who works for a living.” “If T am asked her the American people will pull themselves out of this | depression, I answer, ‘they will if they | want to."” “I cannot rantee the success of this Nation-wide plan, but the people | of this country can guarantee its suc- America. that kind in the continuing descent into the economic hell of the past four years. There is & clear way to reverse that process: If all employers in each com- petitive group agree to pay their workers the same w: reasonable | wages—and require the same hours— hours—then reasonable higher wages apd shorter hours will hurt no em- ployer. . Moreover, such action is better for low wnfu, because buyers for his product. simple idea which is the very heart of the industrial recovery act. On the basis of this simple principle of everybody doing this together, we are starting out on this Nation-wide attack on unemployment. It will suc- ceed if our people understand it—in the big industries, in the little shops, in the great cities and in the small villages Principle Not Complicated. There is nothing complicated about it and there is nothing particulaily new in the principle, It goes back to the basic i of soclety and of the Nation itself that people acting in & group can accomplish things which no individual acting alone could even hope to_bring about. ~Here is an example. In the cotton textile code and in other eements Iready signed, child labor been sbolished. That makes me rmn-lly happier than any other one tl u:m;nh which I have been connected 1 came to Washington. In_the textile industry—an industry which came to me spontaneously and with a splendid co-operation as soon as the recovery act was —child labor was an old egl. But no em- ployer acting alone Was able to wipe it out If one employer tried it, or if one State tried it, the costs of opera- tion rose 8o high that it was impossible to compete with the employers or States which had failed to act. ‘The moment the recovery act was passed, this monstrous thing ‘which neither opinion nor law could reach mlh years of effort went out in a As a British éditorial put it. we did more under a code in one day than thev in England had been sble to do under the common Jaw in 85 years of effort. Time for Courageous Action. I use this incident, my friends, not to boast of what has al Been don But to point the way to you for even greater co-operative efforts this Sum- mer and Autumn. We are not going through another ®incer like the last. T doubt if ever any people so bravely and cheerfully endured a season balf so bitter. We cannot ask Americans to face such needless hardships. time for courageous action, and recovery bill gives us the means to conquer unemployment with exactly the same weapon that we have used to siurike down child labor. The proposition is simply this: If all employers will act together to shorten hours and raise we can le back to work. No employer the relative level | weeks of consultation. This agreement | checks the voluntary codes of nearly the large industries which have already been submitted. This | blanket agreement carries the unani- | mous approval of the three boards { which I have appointed to advise in | this, boards representing the great lead. in industry and in d! The agreement has already brought s flood of approval from every State, and from 'so wide a cross-section of the | common calling of industry that I know | {1t 18 fair to all. | It is a plan—deliberate, reasonable | and just—intended to put into effect at once the most important of the | broad principles which are being estab- | lc‘odum' industry by industry, through | Naturally, it takes a good deal of or- | ganizing and great many hearings Lme n ® No Charge for Alterations! ® Sizes 35 to 46— Regulars, longs and shorts. - 1005 Pa. Ave. :n‘ ted a-i.:l ected an wait for all of them to blanket ‘The which I am mdmfiw will start the wheel not_six months from now. There are, of course, men, & few jof them, who might thwart this great common purpose by seeking selfish ad- vantage. There are adequate penalties in the law, but I am now asking the co-operation that comes from opinion and from conscience. These are the only instruments we shall use in this great Summer offen- sive against unem t. But we shall use them to the limit to protect the willing from the laggard and to make the plan succeed. Basic Industries Come Forward. In war, in the gloom of night attack, soldiers wear a bright badge on their shoulders to be sure that comrades do not fire on comrades. On that prin- ciple, those who co-operate in this program must know each other at & glance. 'I‘lru;l is 'ht' ':hrl':" provided badge of honor for rfurpme, simple design with a lp&:n , “We do our part,” and I ask all those who join with me shall display that badge prominently. It is essential to our purpose. Already all the 'rnt basic industries have come for willingly with pro- posed codes, in these codes they accept the principles leading to mass re-employment. ut, important as is this heartening demonstration, the richest field for results is among the small employers, those whose contribu- tion will give new work for from one to_ten people. ‘These smaller employers are indeed a vital part of the backbone of the Already the telegrams and letters are pouring into the White House—mes- sages from employers who ask that their names be placed on this special roll of honor. They represent great corporations and companies and part- nerships and individuals. I ask that even before the dates set in the agreements which we have sent out the employers of the country who have not already done so—the big lows and the little fellows—shall at once write or telegraph to me person- 10| Government-approved ‘code. in the post roll of homor of all those who | town join with me. Gevernors’ Actien Praised. I want to take this occasion to say to the 24 Governors who are now in conference in S8an Francisco that noth- ing thus far has helped in strengthen- ing this great movement more than their resolutions adopted at the very outset of their meeting. giving this plan their instant and unanimous ap- proval, and pledging to support it in their States. To the men and women whose lives have been darkened by the fact or the fear of unemployment, I am justified in saying a word of encouragement, because the codes and the agreements alresdy approved. or about to be passed upon, prove that the plan does raise wages, and that it does put people back to_work. You can look on every employer who adopts the plan as one who i doing his part, and those employers deserve well of every one who works for a living. It will be clear to you, as it is to me, that, while the shirking em- ployer may undersell tor, the saving be thus makes is the ex) of his country’s ‘While we are mak! this great com- mon effort there sl be no discord and dispute. This is no time to cavil or to question the standard set by this universal agreement. It is time for patience and understal and co- operation. The workers of this country have rights under this law which cannot be taken from them, and nobody will be permitted to whittle them away, but, on the other hand, no aggression is NOw necessary to attain those rights. Workers Asked te Help Alse. ‘The whole country will be united to get them for you. The principle that applies to the employers applies to the workers as well, and I ask you workers to_co-operate in the same spirit. When Andrew Jackson, “Old Hick- ory,” died, some one asked, “Will he g0 to heaven” and the answer was, “He will if he wants to.” If I am asked whether the American people will | pull themselves out of this depression, I answer, “They will if they want to.” ‘The essence of the plan is a universal limitation of hours of work per week for any’ individual by common consent, and & universal payment of wages Information & reservations for all airline destinations EASTERN AIR TRANSPORT SYSTEM 308 15th 8. N. W. _ (National 3932) Washington Alrport ‘National 3616} WASHINGTON NEW YORK EVERY HOUR ON THE HOUR omorrow Only! @ All $12.50 and $10 Seersucker|Studio AN D Suits 95 ) D.J KAUFMAN 1nc. i) Thinks 8| invoke its power, under the industrial FRM WIL HLP, HARRINAN SAYS 90% of Concerns Wilk Work' With Government :.on Recovery Plan. By the Associated Press. MINNEAPOLIS, July .25—Ninety per cent of the business and industrial concerns in the nation want the new Pederal codes t work and may be de- pended upon to support them, Henry 1. Harriman of Boston, president of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States, said yesterday. “As for the ‘chiselers’ and price- cutters; who represent not over 10 per cent of the total, the Government can recovery act, to license concerns in all lines of business,” he said. Business te Co-Operate. “This will be necessary in some lines, but 1o most, I believe, the business men will co-operate fully in making the codes effective.” As to the distusbed n price situ- ation, Harriman vok the hope that % moderate speculation.” : “I foresee action by Con- gress at its next session to regulate St e w . Some- thing of that nrt'rmmmuble and I am told that a bill is being drawn.” Harriman spent the day here en route West. GIVE WAGE BOOSTS. Nerth Carclina Textile Plants Also Re- duce Working Hours. By the Associated Press. CHARLOTTE, N. C, July 25.—Wage | increases and shorter working days were | ven operatives in & number of manu- | "I‘hlfll‘ textile ?lln";n North Caro- ine yesterday, although these ular plants are not >y The plants, all which would come | under the silk code when that industry’s agreement for fair competition is worked out, have voluntarily adopted a | | above a minimum, consent. I cannot guarantee the success of this nation-wide plan, but the people of this country can guarantee its suc cess. I have no faith in “cure-alls, but I believe that we can greatly in: flulm:: economic forces. ve no sympathy with the pro- fessional economists who insist gl(' things must run their course, and that human agencies can have no influence on economic ills. Believes in Unified Action. Ome reason is that I happen to know | that professional economists have | changed their definition of economic laws every 5 or 10 years for a very long time, but I do have faith, and retain faith, in the strength of com. mon purpose, and in the strength of | unified action taken by the Americap people. | That is why I am describing to you the simple purposes and the solid foun- dations upon which our program of | recovery is bullt. ‘That 18 why I am asking the em- ployers of the Nation to sign this com- mon covenant with me—to sign it in the name of patriotism and humanity. That is, why I am asking the work- | ers to go slong with us in a spirit of | ‘understanding and of helpfulness. ! also by common For Co-operation FIRMS AIDING RECOVERY TO ISPLAY POLTER. 1 MEMBER WE DO OUR PART A blue eagle on a white background, with red biock letters below declaring “We do our part,” make up the “badge of honor” which employers co-operating in the national recovery movement will be given to display in their windows and on their cogwheel, Te) ting industry, and a sheaf of lightning bolts, repre- | senting the' power of unmited action. | Every industry and every employer who has agreed with the President on the | rewveryorhn will be enrolled as a member of the N. R. A. minimum wage of $12 & week and maximum working week of 40 hours. The code is the same governing cot- | ton textile plants. Pour full-fashioned hosiery plants in Charlotte, the Larkwood Hosiery Mill, | the Hudson Silk Hosiery Co., the Nebel Knitting Co. and the Charlotte Knit- ting Co. installed the new code. The Gastonia Wea Co., manu- facturers of clothing labels, said the | code would mean a 50 per cent wage increase, effective immediately, for its employes. The plant also announced an increase for its clerical force, but did not say how much. | ‘The Bluebell Overall Plant, at Greens- boro, announced its 1,400 operatives would be given a 40 per cent wage in- crease in the hourly rate of pay. ‘Working shifts in all plants were cut to 40 hours each. Similar announcements were made by | other mills in the State. FIX HOURS AND PAY. CHICAGO, July 25 (#).—Wholesalers of wallpaper yesterday agreed to minimum wage scale of 30 cents an hour and a maximum week: of 44 hours for employes in. & code - Wallpaper llnu;. e seturers’. Tn- stitute decided on & $12 a week mini- mum wege after a telephone eonversa= l-.ll_:l mm-mmm in ey submiti code Ji 12 for a 40-hour -maximum .‘grklnc -g with & minimum wage of $12 & week for women and $14 for men, but offi- clals of the Federal recovery program demanded -the same scale apply to " istin: . Albma ladelphia, 3 n of Phi president “of the National Wholesale Wallpaper Association, said the whole- salers’ code would be submitted to the Government immediately. Hearing on the manufacturers’ code has been set for August 4. DRAFTING CODE. DETROIT, July 25 (#).—A 40-hour average maximum work week and a minimum wage of 30 to 40 cents an hour for all workers in the manufac- turing process, and $15 a week for other employes were adopted yesterday by representatives of the automotive parts and equipment manufacturing industry meeting here to draft a tentative code of fair competition under the national Tecovery act. Some 500,000 employes are affected by the code, which will be presented to Gen. Hugh 8. Johnson, national in- dustrial recovery administrator. The minimum wage of 40 cents was fixed in the manufacturing categories, except in plants where the rate for the same job was less than 40 cents an hour on July 15, 1929, in which case the 1929 figure would be the minimum. Th proposed code calls for continua- Molrll of the “successful open-shop policy.” MAY SPEAK AT FAIR CHICAGO, July 25 (#).—Mrs. Prank- lin D. Roosevelt will be invited to speak at a Century of Progress Exposition on the evening of August 15, Women's day, during Farm week at the fair. Edward A. O'Neal, president of the American Farm Bureau Federation, and Clifford Gregory, editor and publisher of the Prairie Farmer, will leave for Wash- ington today, to extend the invitation. 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