Evening Star Newspaper, August 31, 1933, Page 4

FOR MORE BUYING Pescribes N. R. A. as Rules Bwoup Striving for Fairer Business Game. @ the Associated Press. BOSTON, August 31.—Hugh 8. John- denied yesterday the National covery Administration was attempting make business “goosestep.” “N. R. A is in no sense a czardom,” e administrator told a mass luncheon ting of recovery workers. “It is a sort of rules committee where e great coaches of the American in- ustrial and labor teams are col- borating to make a new and fairer e out of business competition in this try.” Pointing out that the “whole experi- ent” is up to the workers and con- mers, Johnson said: “There is not & manufacturer or mer- ant who can live if we workers are with him. We must help those who Ip us, or we all go down together. Rules of Game Simple. “I want to say with all earnestness it this campaign of consumer educa- jion which you are launching here to- y is the crux—the very vitals of the eat national effort. * * * “That is the true rugged individual- sm. That is the new freedom. And e rules cf that game are simple. For e consumer there is only one, and I y it in 17 words: ‘Buy under the Blue le. Buy freely and buy now to thé imit of your present needs.’" After recalling that the American volution was not a rebellion against he British constitution, but “‘resistance economic pressure—to business ex- oitation,” he said: d of limitless resources. We are still people of boundless energy. There no more sense in starving in a i o{ plenty now than there was in 716, % * o “There is no use in pointing back | the 1928 boom and saying that pros- rity is possible without change—God ve us from any more prosperity of &t pipe dream substance. * * * Goods and Money Given Away. “The smoky dream was built on an panding export trade which we got y lending busted foreign customers vish billions to buy our goods when e were already on notice that they uld not or would not pay even a rtion of other lavish billions they Iready owed us. “We were giving away both our goods the money to buy them as fast ships could carry them across the ean and then building here a bonfire ©f hope under our speculative market grom the warmth of hot I. O. U.’s. “Anybody who wants any more pros- ity of that kind is a candidate for me economic Keeley cure.” Comparing the development of box- g to business, the general said, “No- ly ever heard Jack Dempsey com- lain of any hampering restrictions of is rugged individualism when Luis irpo lifted him over the ropes into e typewriters, and he came back to $loor Mr. Firpo four times in 40 scc- nds and, of course, neither of them &sfi any eyeballs—they didn't even hit low the belt—but they squeezed into 8 furious minute about as vigorous dis- lay of human effectiveness and in- vidual liberty of action as anybody 1d want to see. “But that was only in boxing: in business we were still in the eye-goug- mg era until PFranklin D. Roosevelt an to revise the rules.” Johnson flew here from Washington &nd returned there by plane soon after delivering his address. CONSUMERS BACK N. R. A. MANHATTAN, Kans., August 31 (# =~—The N. R. A. scored impressively in Bn “election” here. More than 3,200 Manhattan con- sumers voluntarily went to their polling laces Wednesday to vote and regis- r. The local N. R. A. Committee utilized such a plan rather than con- @uct a house-to-house canvas. A force of 60 clerks worked at the Mive polling places. LUMBER MILLS ON CODE TACOMA, Wash, August.31 (#).— umber mills in the Pacific Northwest uglas fir distrist will work a maxi- mum of 30 hours a week for the month beginning September 4, the first period f N. R. A. production allocation, the ‘est Coast Lumbermen's Association announced yesterday. ‘This will mean a “substantial reduc- $ion” in lumber production, Col. W. B. Greeley, secretary-manager of the as- gociation, said. MEMBER ‘We are still a| Report on Ford Prepared And News of Progress Throughout Nation Seen. Today's N. R. A. activities follow: Hugh 8. Jt n, administrator, pre- jpares repo.t President it on Henry Ford's refusal to sign sutomobile code. Bituminous coal operators consider increased labor costs as N. R. A. offi- cials speed drafting of final coal code. Administrators receive new re| of progress of President's re-employment drive throughout Nation. Negotiations continue on master code for entire retail trade. Secretary Ickes summons new Ofl Committee into session. Hearings held on numerous codes for smaller industries. Yesterday's developments: Johnson returned from Boston, where he urged mass buying. President Roosevelt asked Johnson for a complete report on why Henry Ford has not signed the automotive code. Bituminous coal operators considered marketing agencies as a price-stabiliz- ing means in selling their product. President named committee of 15 to govern oil industry under new oil code. Drafting of scores of codes for smaller industries went ahead. August activities of the N. R. A.: Permanent codes approved—18. Modified President’s re-employment agreements approved—240. Permanent codes set for hearing— approx:mately 25. Number of workers re-employed, as utolmn!ed by Hugh S. Johnson—2,000,- 000. Number estimated by N. R. A. as working under codes and P. R. A.’s— Upwards of 10,000.000. Permanent codes approved which be- came effective in July—Cotton textile. Permanent codes approved which be- came effective in August—Coat and suit, corset and brassiere, electrical manufacturing. fishing tackle, iron and steel. lace manufacturing, legitimate theater, lumber, rayon weaving, ship building, photographic manufacturing and wool textile. Permanent codes which become ef- | fective in September and the dates— Automobile, September 5; hosiery, Sep- tember 3; men’s ready-to-wear cloth- ing, September 11; oil, September 1, and rayon and synthetic yarn, Septem- 9. FINSHNG TOUCHES o7 ON TRE CODE { Major Companies Tentatively Agree on Work Week of 36 Hours. | By the Associated Press. | NEW YORK, August 31—Having| agreed tentatively on a 36-hour maxi- mum work week for the automobile tire industry, representatives of the major rubber companies were at work today on a final revision of their code. | The tentative code provides that each | employe may work an additional 104 | hours each year to meet emergencies or | | peak demands. | ""White collar workers and delivery ! men were limited to a maximum of 40 hours of work per week and factory workers were not permitted to work more than 8 hours a day. Supervisors and technical men earn- ing more than $35 a week and outside | men were exempted from the maximum | | hours provision. | | Minimum wages of 40 cents per hour | were provided for factory and mechani- | | cal workers and artisans, unless the; rates for the same work were lower on | July 15, 1929. Under the provisions of | | the code in this case, the wages would | be what they were at that time, but | never less than 30 cents an hour. The code also set a $15 a week min- {imum wage for accounting, clerical, office, service or sales employes, except outside salesmen in cities of 500,000 or more inhabitants, or in “the immediate | trade area of such city.” | A maximum week of 48 hours and a | minimum of $15 per week were provided | for service station employes and em- ployes of a controlled dealer selling tires | and other rubber products and supplies |at retail in cities of 500,000 or more population. Under the provisions of the code each company must report monthly to the Rubber Association how many overtime hours which may have been worked and the ratio of the overtime to the toi\ working hours of the month. THE EVENING LABOR 10 INSIST ON SHORTER HOURS Green Says 11,000,000 Workers Are Still Idle, and Cause Will Be Pressed. By the Associated Press. To Insure greater and more rapid spread of employment, labor will insist on shorter working hour provisions in N. R. A. codes, according to William Green, president of the American Fed- eration of Labor and N. R. A. labor adviser. Hours of work now being inserted in codes by manufacturers are not short enough to take in quickly the unem- ployment slack, Green asserted. He said that statistics of the American Federation of Labor -show that since March 2,000,000 persons have been re- turned to jobs, leaving about 11,000,000 still idle. Hugh 8. Johnson, national recovery administrator, on Tuesday estimated the number of re-employed at 2,000,000, predicting this numi would be in- creased rapidly in the next few months. Campaign for Workers. The labor leader sald an intensive campaign was in progress to form unions and bring workers into the Fed- eration. So far, he said, about 1,000,000 ne‘fi\"s members had been added to the rolls. Organization activity, Green reported, was going forward steel, rubber, automobile and other mass production plants, with the intention of setting up “Federal unions” to take in all crafts. This method of organization would supercede the old order of creat- ing unions embracing individual crafts. The Federation leader attended two meetings of the National Labor Board yesterday. The board heard the col tractors’ side of the labor dispute i volving construction of the New Or- leans bridge over the Mississippi. Senator Wagner of New York, chair- man of the board, said that both the contractos and labor representatives who were heard yesterday had been in- structed to flle briefs by Saturday night, after which time the board would ren- der its decision. Decision Is Binding. . Whatever decision is given, Wagner said. would be binding upon both parties under the law inasmuch as both had agreed to submit the case to arbi- tration. Wagner added the board was without power to arbitrate labor ques- tions unless both sides agreed to sub- mit the issue. Among other cases coming up today was one in which the Westinghouse Electric Co. of East Springfield. Mass., was_accused of refusing to deal with employes organized under the recovery act and of attempting to continue re- lations with the old company unfon. Green said he believed the Westing- house employes would strike unless their unions were reccirized in accordance with N. R. A. guarantees. He added that the case might well be taken to court for determination. The Labor Board has requested the Westinghouse officials to submit their side of the question before considering further procedure. ASK 8-HOUR DAY Yardmasters’ Convention Petition N. R. A. for Code. OMAHA, Nebr., August 31 (#).—Dele- gates to the convention of International Railway Yardmasters ended their three- day session here yesterday by voting to petition the national recovery adminis- tration for inclusion under a code that would give them an eight-hour work- ing day. C. D. Anderson, Chicago, president of the organization. said an effort would be made to bring the Yardmasters' Union back to its proper strength of 23,000 members. The union now has about one-half the number, he said. RAPS N. R. A. CRITICS Speaker Rainey Declares They Are “Near Treason.” OKLAHOMA CITY, August 31 (#).— Speaker Henry T. Rainey told a Southwestern N. R. A. rally last night that those who attack the N. R. A. are “not technically” guilty of treason “but morally they graze the very edge of treason.” ““There is no partisanship in the | present movement toward recovery,” he said. “In both the House and the Sen- ate, a check-up, I think., would show that as large a perecentage of Repub- licans voted for the recovery program as Democrats.” WBDEMANN began brewing fine beer in 1870, and stopped only with the coming of Prohibition. Now Wiedemann is entering the field again, and will brew more than 600,000 barrels a year of draught and bottled beer. The Wiedemann brewery covers five city blocks and owns three acres of railroad yards. This great plant—largest in the Cincin- nati Area—will soon be in full operation. It will mean work for more than 1,000 people. STAR, WASHINGTON, CODE 15 APPROVED FOR SMALL PAPERS Reporters Earning $25 or More a Week Exempt From Provisions. By the Associated Press. A code for small daily and weekly newspapers throughout the Nation has been approved by Hugh S. Johnson, recovery administrator, officials of the National Editorial Association announc- ed today. The papers which would be affected are those outside the category of the so-called metropolitan press, which has been enlisted in the Blue Eagle cam- paign under an agreement proposed by the American Newspaper Publishers’ Association. 48-Hour Maximum Week. A 40-hour work week, with a 48-hour maximum, was provided in the N. R. A. agreement, with reporters earning $25 and more a week exempt from these provisions. ‘The code provides against employ- ment of child labor under 16 years, ex- cept those who are able without im- pairment of health to deliver or sell newspapers during the now established hours of such work where it would not | interfere with day school, and except | those between 14 and 16, who may be engaged not more than three hours a day between 7 am. and 7 p.m., but not in mechanical or manufacturing duties The minimum wage for non- mechanical employes ranges from $12 & week in towns less than 5.000, $13 a week in cities between 5000 and 25,000, to $15 a week in any city over 500,000 population. Set-up for Printers. It is also provided that publishers- printers and printers shall not pay any factory, mechanical worker or artisan less than 40 cents per hour, unless the hourly rate for the same class of work on July 15 1929, was less than 40 cents per hour, in which latter case they shall be paid not less than the hourly rate on July 15, 1929, and in no event less than 30 cents per hour: provided that apprentices (who shall comprise not more than one for 20 em- ployes and in establishments of over 20, not more than 5 per cent of the total number of employes) during their first three years' service in the indus- try, may be paid not less than 20 cents | per hour. Wages for part-time shall be computed at proportional rates per week, not lower than the prescribed | minimum rates. It is agreed this para- graph establishes a guaranteed mini- mum rate of pay regardless of whether an employe is compensated on the basis of a time rate or piece-work perform- ance. In no event shall the weekly| wage be less than that which employes | receli(\'ed on July 1, 1933, for the same worl DOy J s Who’sWho of N.R.A.,| Private Project, Is Scored by Johnson Chicago Publishing Ven- ture Draws Fire as Im- pudent and Undesirable. By the Assoclated Press. CHICAGO, August 31.—Publishers of an official “roll of honor,” listing firms which have signed to operate under the N. R. A. Blue Eagle drew a sharp rebuke yesterday from Gen. Hugh 8. Johnson, who termed the publication “undesirable” and “impudent.” “Attention has been called to a maga- zine published by Ira Wolfe,” the general said in a telegram to Chicago N. R. A. headquarters. “He publishes a roll of honor of people who have signed the N. R. A. code, the implica- tion being that only those in this list have so signed.” The list is advertised, Gen. Johnson said, as 8 “Who's Who of the N. R. A,” the publishers asserting they would ac- cept. contributions of 25 cents to $35. “Anybody who contributes to be in- cluded in such a ‘Who's Who' is simply co&mb\mnc to a racket,” Gen. Johnson sal SOCIALISTS PROTEST COAL CODE PROVISION | Strife, Especially in Illinois, Seen Unless Independent Unions Are Recognized. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, August 31.—Strife in the Nation's coal flelds, especially in Tllinois, was envisaged” by Liberal and Socialist leaders last night unless the N R. A coal code guarantees the| rights of independent unions as well ! as the United Mine Workers of America. In behalf of these men and women, the American Civil Liberties Union telegraphed Gen. Hugh S. Johnson, Te- covery administrator, and Dr. Leo Wol- man of the Labor Advisory Board, as follows: “Protest strongly against reported provision for collective bargaining in coal code granting exclusive recognition to United Mine Workers with check- off system. We submit that such pro- vision directly violates section seven giving workers right to select own rep- resentatives. Independent unions in mining industry should be provided for. If reported provision adopted strife will follow, particularly in Illinois field. and court test inevitable. Urge your careful | consideration of this point.” The reference to Illinois fields re- | sults from the formation there a yelr{ ago of the Progressive Miners of | America, after a schism in the United Ming Workers | | TWO DAYS ONLY! Friday and Saturday Final Close-out of all Drastic reductions to clean out entire stock of h.rnken lots —odds and ends, etc., left from past season’s selling. (34) Underwear SETS Rayon shirts and broadcloth (9) 35c Rayon UNDERSHIRTS Colors . . HOSE Summer shades. ... (14) $1.50 Rayon UNION Sizes 38, 42, 44 .. (38) 65c Sport BELTS Black and white, tzn and white. (62) 35c Wash TIES (149) SHIRTS and SHORTS (16) Bathing SHIRTS, wer: Plain and fancy. All wool. (54) Packard Sp Special ........ Arrow Stiff COLLARS Discontinued styles, broken siz (43) Manhattan SHIRTS White, in collar-attached and soiled and mussed......... . (5) Silk ROBES Slightly faded. (6) $16.50 Linen SUITS Sizes 34, 35, 36, 38, 39 (5) White Flannel Trousers Narrow bottom. Sizes 33, 42 (30) Stiff STRAWS Clermont and Mailory. Sold (55) Odd TROUSERS All wool, all paiterns, all s (28) Flannetex SLACKS Plain and stripes. All sizes. (7) $30 Knit-Tex GOLF SUITS knickers. Sizes 36, 37, 38, 39. Sport coat (28) Silk TIES Resilient construction. Were (116) Silk TIES Were $1.00 and $150. .. . 79c shorts SUITS (6 for 31.00‘; 19c 35c 89c e $1.95 (50c doz.) es ranging from 13'; to 17%; »89¢ neckband styles slightl Sold as high as $30... up to $3.50 | Were $245........ (4 for $1.00) 65¢c .. REPEAL POSSIBLE WITHIN TEN WEEKS At Least 15 More States to Vote, With Ratification by December 6. By the Associated Press. A clear-cut possibility that the eighteenth amendment could be voted void within the next 10 weeks emerged today from the three-to-1 repeal ma- Jority cast by voters representing nearly three-fifths of the Nation's population. The heavy recording of Washington as the twenty-fourth State to ballot in favor of the twenty-first or repealing endment carried the anti-prohibition surge across two-thirds of the distance to its goal. The total vote for wet and dry dele- gates last reported, with 2,143 precincts out of 2,682 reporting, was 364,616 for repeal and 150,920 against. I Three More Than Needed. At least 15 or more States will vote | before November 8—providing a mini- | mum of three more than necessary for repeal—should the uninterrupted pro- cesslon of the first 24 be continued. New England became the focal point of national wet and dry interest today as Vermont and Maine sharpened pen- cils for early September balloting. They | Arizona to Enter Formal Repeal Vote | were the first of seven States within the next three weeks. | Should 12 of the 15 States sure to! to vote vote before November 8, follow the line' —_— of the first 24, the prohibition amend- ment would be formally abolished on December 5 or 6. Three ratifying con- ventions meet on December 5, and two more on the 6. Statisticians adding up and analyzing the vote thus far figured today that altkough only half the States had bal- lote], more than 72,000,000 of the Nation's 122,698,190 _population lived within their borders on the basis of the 1930 census. The popular vote in the 24 recorded States stands in round numbers at 9,- 800,000 in favor of repeal to 3,000,000 against. These figures, of course, do not include the recordings in Nevada and ‘Wyoming, where delegates were elected :)‘)‘; mass meetings and county conven- ns. On the basis of present voting dates, all but nine States holding 14,565,076 of the Nation's population will have bal- loted by November 8. These nine in- clude Kansas and Louisiana. Kansas Vote Likely. Gov. Landon has called a special session of the Kansas Legislature to meet in September, and probably a voting day will be set during the present year. Gov. O. K. Allen of Louisiana has stated he also would call a special session. ‘Should both these States vote this year, only about 10,000,000 of the | population would not have been given an opportunity to ballot on repeal dur- ing this period. Here are the election days already established during the next 10 weeks: Vermont, September 5; Maine, Sep- tmber 11; Colorado, Maryland and Min- nesota, September 12; Idaho and New ber 19; Vi ober Mexico, irginia, Oct: 3; Florida, October 10; North and South | hio, Pennsylvania, Utah and (tentative), November 7. RATIFIES TUESDAY. at Capitol. PHOENIX, Ariz, August 31 | Delegates elected from Arizona’s 14' counties, pledged to vote for ratificae tion of the twenty-first amendment, will gather at the capitol next Tuesday to cast this State’s formal vote for repeal of national prohibition. The convention is a formality, Ari- Zo0na having on August 8 voted 313 to 1 for repeal. Holding of the formal convention was assured with the refusal of Supreme Court Justice Henry D. Ross to issue an injunction, application for which was made by Charles R. Osburn of the Arizona Temperance Federation. NOT DISCOURAGED. Dr. F. Scott McBride Convenes Meeting for Retention. CHICAGO, August 31 (P —Dr. F. Scott McBride, national superintendent of the Anti-Saloon League, yesterday convened a conference of organization leaders here to evolve a six-point pro- gram for retention of the eighteenth amendment. Not in the least discouraged by the fact that 24 States already have turned thumbs down on the amendment, Mc- Bride said the policy of the league would | be “no surrender, no retreat, no com- promise,” and asserted that of the State's voting against the amendment 17 of them were concededly wet strong- holds. “Of the 24 yet to vote,” he said, “20 were dry. If but 50 per cent of the dry voters go to the polls, the cause will not be lost.” - oo “No Rations in Angyt" CHERAW, 8. C. (#)—A new inter- pretation of the meaning of “N.R.A." was given here by an aged colored woman, who was informed that R. F. C. relief fumds for August had been given out and she could get no food until September. She saw an N. R. A. sign on the office window and said: “I allus wanted to know that dem letters stood for; now I know; dey means “no rations in August.” SEPTEMBER PIANO SALE UPRIGHTS—PLAYERS—GRANDS NEW AND USED PIANOS Every year for the last fifteen Jordan’s have had their annual September Sale of Pianos. This year we have the same wonderful values as years before. Thousands have taken advantage of these savings before the fall season starts. Now this year it will be even more to your advantage to save before prices go up to a higher level. Beautiful New Apartment Grand Piano We have managed to secure a few of these grands to be offered at this low price. Come in today—see for yourself these lone values. This is the best value for the money we have ever offered. Remember, only a limited number at this 295 LIMITED NUMBER ONLY price. USED PLAYER Bench and Rolls 97 Our shop of expert workmen have rebuilt this player to al- most look like new. What a bargain it is for the money. Small used apartment grand, mahogany case. 200 $5 Delivers New Apartment PIANO Bench to Match s185 Here is a brand-new apart- ment upright. Mahogany case, sweet tone, with plenty of vol- ume. Neat and attractive. Buy now. Just received in trade on a Chickering grand. 218 $5 Delivers USED PIANOS Practice upright piano—good for the beginner. s40 Another practice piano. One of the best grands we hdve ever offered at this price. Recelved in trade only recently. 5240 $5 Delivers MANY ATTRACTIVE USED PIANO BARGAINS HUNNINGTON..$45 GILBERT SMITH $49 SINGER .... WHITTIER ....... 50 BENNING . . 69 DOLL. The experience and tradition of a long and honorable record will stand behind every barrel and bottle. Wiedemann'’s slogan . . . “It is ‘BREAD’ in Old Kentucky” will soon be featured on the air. Waich for itl e NEWPORT, KENTUCKY (Metropolitan Clacinnati) (2 for 95¢) All sizes. . (132) Carter UNION SUITS Pajama check, seat and side openings. 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