Evening Star Newspaper, August 17, 1933, Page 3

ROOSEVELT TAKES OVERN. R. A.LEAD Steel Dispute Seen as Caus- ing President to Assume Responsibility. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. President Roosevelt has assumed per- | sonal responsibility at last for the N. R. A ‘Up to now Gen, Hugh S. Johnson has had a free hand and it was not quite clear how far he, reflected the wishes and desires of the President beyond the bare administrative side of his job. Now that the general has reached an jmpasse on the steel code and Mr. Roosevelt has undertaken himself to deal with the steel manufacturers, the prospects are that other groups Wwill wish to have their cases decided by the President, too. There is some reason to believe the presidential influence has been exerted quietly in other industries, too, and that Gen. Johnson has been in con- stant touch with Hyde Park when the President has been there. open activity of the President in N. R. A. matters now is being construed as a course of the drive hereafter. Intervention Significant. precedent that may guide the wholel From a political viewpoint, the Roose- I velt intervention is most significant. Up to now such resentment as has been visited on the N. R. A. plan has been directed against the Johnsonian insti- ! tution and there has been doubt as to the extent of Mr. Roosevelt’s concur- rence. If the President, however, is active in settling disputes over codes, the whole question of political pressure may come up, especially as members of Congress are besought to go to the President. Most of the members of Congress who have been asked by constituents to aid in getting code matters settled have felt that the N. R. A. was not the place for them to try to use their influence. The whole atmosphere at the N. R. A. offices has been non-po- litical, very much as was the Draft Board activity of Gen. Johnson during the war. Mr. Roosevelt undoubtedly realizes that, irrespective of how he interferes in the N. R. A. machinery, he will be held responsible by public opinion for the whole operation anyway. Hence if his influence as a mediator can be effective, such credit as comes after a peaceful settlement of a tangled con- troversy on so conspicuous an industry as steel will be a feather in Mr. Roose- velt's cap, politically speaking. It will reveal him as still the leader of the war against the depression and a6 the conciliator of conflicting interests. Situation Held Tense. ‘The situation as between the steel men and the labor leaders has been tense. It is somewhat of a shock to the steel manufacturers to find official Washington apparently so much given over to the labor side. The refusal to sit down with Willlam Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, did create an unfavorable impression here and it is considered possible that there was & misunderstanding as to the official character of the conference and the capacity in which Mr. Green was serving. Efforts are being made to iron out the difficulty. is concerned, it is doubtful whether the steel representatives object to talking with Mr. Green, but they wish also to| have the opportunity to present their case to Government officials separately. There will be no trouble about ar- ranging all the necessary conferences. ‘What Mr. Roosevelt wants is approval of a code and the effort now is to get _the steel agreement, so as to give im- petus to the whole code movement. (Copyright, 1933.) RETAILERS’ ASSOCIATION SEEKS N.R.A. CODE CHANGE Telogram Says Members Feel They Were Not Adequately Represent- ed in Preparation of Program. By the Associated Press. ST. LOUIS, August 17.—Dissatisfac- tion with some of the provisions of the retailers’ general code was expressed yesterday in a telegram sent by the American Retailers’ Association to the N. R. A Continuance of a hearing on the code, scheduled for August 22, ‘was asked. The telegram, signed by Scott R. de Kims, secretary of the association, says ‘members of the organization “feel they were not adequately represented in preparation of the code.” It was pointed out the approximately 5,500 members of the association are operators of general or dry goods stores chiefly in cities with populations of 10,000 or less. and these members, with few exceptions, are not members of associations which approved the general e. Definite amendments will be sug-, gested, it was stated in the telegram, which' was addressed to Arthur D. Whiteside, deputy administrator. The American Retalers’ Association held its convention here last week. Invited to Speak. COLUMBUS, Ohio, August 17 (P).— nvitations were sent yesterday to Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt and Gen. Hugh: S. Johnson to address a public meet- here August 28 inaugurating the dfiyfih A. consumers’ campaign in this SPECIAL NOTICES. AY_ AUG. 19, 1033, AT PUBLIC fon. Gus Eichber, auctioneer, will sell Ford 1920 Coupe. 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O'CONNOR. of the Currency But _the | So far as conversation | Quick Glance Shows Status of National Recovery Program By the Assoclated ’k"" e 2 Here is a quick peek at today’s status of the national industrial program as industry and N. R. A. leaders go over plans. Experts seek common under- standing on labor for steel code. N. R. A. pushes efforts to bring coal and automobiles into cam- paign. Hearings held on lumber re- tailers’ code. Modifications of re-employ- ment agreement or blanket code annaunced to cover cigarette and other tobacco manufacturers, flat glass Industry, gas appliances, folding box manufacturers, cook- ing and heating appliances, book manufacturers, farm equipment, lead, chain and other industries. Labor Board prepares to deal directly with company officials in workers' charges they have been discriminated against because of union activities. PARADE OBSERVES COAL STRIKE TRUCE ! America’s First Official N. R. ! A. Procession Is Watched * by 30,000. { | | By the Associated Press. | UNIONTOWN, Pa, August 17— { America’s first official N. R. A. parade, celebrating the strike truce in South- western Pennsylvania's soft coal fleld, attracted more than 30,000 persons last night, who joined in a tumultuous dem- onstration. Gen. Amos A. Fries, chalrman of the National Parade Committee of the Re- covery Administration, and Col. Hector Lazo, a member of the N. R. A, flew from Washington to participate and afterward addressed a crowd of more than 10,000 at Hustead Fiela. Parade in Rain, Notwithstanding a drizzling rain that had continued through most of the day. more than 5000 miners, many with electric lights twinkling from their hel- mets, others with picks and dinner pails, swung down Main street to tunes of 10 bands and bugle corps. The 4-mile parade contained in ad- dition to miners 289 frucks and floats, 14 fire companies with 12 fire engines, 150 striking shirt factory girls, with shirts for banners; a division of dairy- and Girl and Boy Scouts. | “It is a sample of what we hope soon | to have under way all over America,” said Gen. Fries, who reviewed the marchers. He said it was the first offi- cial N. R. A. parade. Dense crowds of men, women and children packed the streets and cheered the marchers, who returned the shouts with a vim. 72 Locals Represented. ‘The 72 locals of the United Mine Workers, who recently were on a two weeks’ strike, all were represented. delegation from the Footdale mine of |the H. C. Frick Coke Co. carried two caskets with banners reading: “We'll Bury Old Man Depression” and “We Have Buried Old Man Moses. Simultaneous with the parade it came known that the Frick Co. ex- pects to swing its 15 mines into full- time production next week. The company is considering plans for 8 40-hour week for miners, which may be placed in effect next week. This would mean employment of more than 2,000 additional workers if a six-day ;lg(r)l; week is followed. California Employment Up. SAN FRANCISCO, August 17 (#).— Employment in California increased 7.1 per cent in July, 1933, as compared with July, 1932. and pay rolls 2.8 per cent, Frank C. MacDonald, State labor com- missioner, announces in the August issue of the California Labor Market | Bulletin. Manufacturing ¥s Increased. Mexico, has increased its manufactur- ing output in many lines in the last year. men and farmers, World War veterans | Al It now employs | YHE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, WOMEN ARE GRED "™ e oo e 10 WATCH PRICES Can K.eep Values Down, Mrs. Roosevelt Says, by Cut- ting Services. By the Associated Press. Giving her support to the unorgan- ized consumers, Mrs. Franklin D. Roose- velt has appealed to all American housewives to watch closely the trend of prices in their localities and report any undue price changes to N. R. A. headquarters for investigation. She gave this advice at her press conference yesterday while a woman writer from England and one from Hol- land listened attentively. Dame Rachel Crowder of England, former head of the social section of the League of Nations, asked many ques- tions on present-day American life and commented: “I'm mest awfully thrilled with this experiment you are trying in the States, in spite of my cold British blood. If your scheme does pull you out, it will pull a Jot of us out.” Can Demand Less Service. Andt Mme. Boni of Holland busily took notes. Mrs. Roosevelt also said woman buy- ers could aid through keeping down prices by demanding less in services. The Government, she said, should furnish information that ‘would help the consumer buy intelligently and keep prices at an adequate level, returning proper profit to those engaged in mar- keting, and still not raise prices un- reasonably to the consumer. Laughingly, Mrs. Roosevelt added that “we women” are “sometimes aw- fully stupid as consumers.” She recalled that she herself had been guilty, on occasion, of making such a purchase as several spools of thread with the instruction to “send it out.” ‘The services that a few had grown to demand, she said, made commodities more expensive for the many. She explained that the “pay cash and carry it away” retail customer had in the last analysis, to pay extra on ac- count of those who require all their purchases delivered and who buy some- times for the actual purpose of ex- changing the article afterward. Pronouncing price-fixing so difficult as to be almost impossible, Mrs. Roose- velt warned that consumers would have to learn to protect themselves. Through Many Hands. | She recalled tracing a crate of spinach, years ago, through 12 hands to the child who actually ate it for the ood of his health—adding, she said, | enormously to its expense. “If we set our minds to it as con- sumers, we could fine ways in which we could eliminate some of the handling through which goods go,” she contended. Asked if that would not deprive some persons of jobs, she answered: “Work which is not necessary had | better be eliminated. We shouid use our ingenuity and find something for people to do that is really necessary— | there is plenty of useful work to be done in the world.” MENTOR BESIEGED Applications for Jobs Swamp Man | Who Gave Johnson Army Career. ENID, Okla. (#).—If J. Y. Callahan of Enid, Delegate to Congress from old Oklahoma Territory, hadn’'t appointed Hugh Johnson to West Point in 1897 he might not be flooded with appeals to use his influence with the national re- covery administrator to obtain jobs. Job seekers who knew Gen. Johnson as Callahan’s protege lost no time in leaping to the conclusion that Callahan might be able to help them. “I've had enough requests for help to get people jobs with the administra- tor,” Callahan said, “to fill every job he has, with a small army of applicants left over.” PILES cesstully treated with a doctor’s prescription. thing, healing applica- iy brings blessed reliet to s ers of Blind, B Protruding or Itching PILES. T: | Guadalajara, second largest city of e ties. PILE-FOE must benefit YOU, ey back. Do not suffef . GET PILE-FOE today! Guaranteed 16,000 Miles List Price $3.65 Other sizes reduced in proportion TURN IN YOUR OLD TIRES AT THESE LOW PRICES! 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Prominent speakers connected with the Drug Institute of America will ex- plain some of the code’s important clauses. This meeting is one of 35 such meet- ings held in various sections of the country on or about the same day in a Nation-wide campaign to secure & fair code for the retail druggist. ‘Washington ts who attend will leave from the D; Was] rug Exchange, 459 C street, at 6:15 p.m. For those who do not own cars trans- portation will be provided. WORKER PROTESTS T0BE INVESTIGATED). 2 Dr. Wolman Says Board Will Deal Directly With Com- panies in Complaints. By the Associated Press. ‘The National Labor Board, created by President Roosevelt, has announced it will deal directly with company officials in cases where workers charge they have been discriminated against and dis- charged because of union activities. Dr. Leo Wolman, acting chairman, sald many complaints of this char- acter have been received, particularly from the coal flelds of West Virginia and Kentucky. The first step will be to submit the charges coming in from individuals, groups and organizations, to the com- pany with a request for information. When that has been received, Dr. Wol- man said, the board will be ready to act if necessary. The board yesterday took action on complaints from miners in McDowell County, W. Va., employed by the U. 8. Coal & Coke Co., that they had been discharged and evicted because they had joined a union. The company was asked for full information. Other cases coming before the board were a shirt strike in Pottsville, Pa.: a dress strike in New York City and a labor dispute affecting employes on the New Orleans Bridge. Dr. Wolman said that for the present the question of union jurisdictional difficulties in the Hollywood motion picture strike are to be referred to conferences between the electrical workers and the theatrical and stage employes unions under the guidance of William Green, president of the Amer- ican Federation of Labor, and a mem- ber of the Labor Board. Pending these conferences, no other action will be taken by the board. ® Facsimile of actual letter from Joseph Obergfell, General Secretary Treasurer, Inter- national Union of United Flour, Cereal and Soft Drink Workers of America. ... Us. D. C., THURSDAY, AUGUST 17, 1933. TREEDDAE OF PRESS ASSURED IN CODE Gen. Johnson Issues Revised Modification Inadvertently Omitted. By the Associated Press. A revised modification of the tempo- rary newspaper code was issued yester- day by correcting the one approved Tuesday night by Gen. Hugh 8. John- son, recovery administrator. The re- vised code supplied a section guaran- teeing freedom of the press, which in- advertently was omitted from the earlier code, it was sald. Provisions of Section. “In submitting or subscribing to this the publishers do not thereby to accept or comply with any other requirements than those herein contained, or waive any right to object to_the imposition of any further or different uirements, or waive any constitutional rights or consent to the imposition of any requirements that mught restrict or interfere with the con- stitutional guarantee of the freedom of the press.” The temporary agreement, to remain in force pending hearings and approval of a permanent code, exempts hours and wages under contracts in effect on or before July 1, 1933, and which can- Contains not be revised except by mutual consent. A 40-hour work week and a $12 to $15 minimum wage scale is provided for office employes. For mechanical em- ployes & 40-hour week, with a 44-hour maximum for any six weeks within any six-month period is fixed. They will receive a minimum wage of 40 cents an hour. Limited to 40 Hours. and other editorial work- be employed only 40 hours. Others are '!c.umpz from the maximum hour provi- lons. The American Newspaper Publishers’ Association, which submitted the code, issued this statement last night in re- gard to the effect of the agreement on ex! mechanical contracts: “Under paragraph 9 of the newspaper code, as approved by Gen. Johnson pending hearings, contracts with em- ployes are not affected. In other words, all terms of contracts affecting hours and wages shall be observed, and unless both parties want to revise the con- tracts, there is no necessity for revision. The A. N. P. A. code does not require a reduction of hours or change of wages where employes are working under con- tract.” P WALK TAMES HORSES Wild Herd Permitted No Rest Until They Bow to Halters. SAN ANGELO, Tex. (#).—Forty head of wild horses, one of the last herds ‘Texas, are being “walked down” on a ranch near Fort McKavett. Relieved from time to time by cow- hands, a boy walks continually after the animals, never permitting them to rest. The process, often a long one, continues until the wild horses are tired and willing to submit to the halter. Most Costly Ingredient MOTORISTS who know their motors use Betholine be- cause it eontains benzol—the most expensive ingredient used in any motor fuel. That’s why they willingly paid Se more per gallon for Betholine than for regular gasolines. And now, with the premium on Betholine reduced to 3¢, it still contains the same amount of costly bensol! Try Bensol Blended BETHOLINE — Reduced 2 cents* ®and another 2¢ discount for cash ABNER DRURY is FAIR to all . ... 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