Evening Star Newspaper, July 9, 1936, Page 14

X M s GREENHITSN.R. A L0SS T0 WORKERS Breakdown of Standards Affects 4,000,000, Presi- dent Is Advised. By the Assoctated Press. Death of the N. R. A. has been fol- fowed by a breekdown in labor stand- ards affecting hours and wages of more than 4,000,000 workers and pre- venting employment of nearly 1,000,- 000 more, it was reported to President Roosevelt yesterday by the American Federation of Labor. The report, based on a Nation-wide | survey, was submitted to the President | by William Green, president of the federation. | 1t said an increase in working time | for more than 4,000,000 werkers had averaged 8.7 hours a week. Although | the report included no recommendation | for labor legislation, the labor organi- | zation long has favored a 30-hour- week law. As he left the White House Green | told newspaper men the Chief Execu- | tive had “manifested great interest” in the results of the survey and prom- | ised to take the report with him for | study on his approaching vacation | trip. ' 30 Per Cent Gain Needed. In another statement later Green praised a recent Labor Department employment estimate, but said it showid that at least a 30 per cent in- crease in non-agricultural employment | would be required to provide work rori all the jobless. Asserting that the federation’s| survey was the most complete that| had been made, but did not cover all industry, Green said it had disclosed | that more than 4,000,000 workers had | “suffered from the lengthening of | hours” from June, 1935, when N. R. A. | was invalidated by the Supreme Court, until March, 1936, and that the proc- ess had deprived 839,123 wage earners of possible re-employment. | In many cases, Green said, hours| were lengthened without a propor- | tionate pay increase. | “Whenever this occurred,” the labor leader said, “the effect of the de- parture from N. R. A. standards was | doubly destructive, for not only were | the employed forced to work longer, | depriving the unemployed of jobs, but the additional hours without compensation meant a clear wage loss | to those so employed.” | | Wage Cutting Charged. | In addition to longer work hours, Green told the President, N. R. A.'s death had brought wage -cutting, abandonment of overtime rates for overtime work, the “stretch out,” widespread return to child labor, re- sumption of home work and other de- partures frem code standards. He reported the nking of the codes was followed by “a destruction of labor standards on a scale never precedented in our history.” But he considered that in all industries where workers were united solidly into unions labor standards had been protected. Green said the Labor Department estimates that 30,950,000 persons had | jobs in mnon-agricultural pursuits in May, against 26.312,000 in May, 1933. and 35,978,000 in May, 1929, was timely and corresponded closely to federation estimates. | T [ Dancing Class to Meet. ' A class in tap dancing, under direc- | tion of Miss Amalie Preische, will meet for the first time at 2 p.m. to- morrow in the Francis Scott Key | School in Potomac Heights. Another | class has been tentatively arranged for adults at 3 pm. each Friday, de- pending on the extent of public in- | terest in the course, Mrs. A. L. Irving, director of the area's activities, an- nounced. Bricklayer Sets Record of 36,519 in Day of 7', Hours Y the Assoctated Press. KEWANEE, Tl July 9.—Ben Williams, colored W. P. A. em- ploye who recently laid 27,000 bricks on a street paving job in one day, set a new record last week. With the thermometer register- ing above 90, Williams laid 36,519 bricks in 7!z hours—the equiva- lent of a quarter of a mile of 20-foot paving. A dozen helpers were kept busy bringing him the bricks, which at 7 pounds each weighed more than 120 tons. Contractors regard 15,000 bricks as a good day's work for one man. 'Eastman’s Newest ET us show you how this remarkable new 16 mm. Magazine Ciné- Gold Miner DIGGINGS AT CARROLL COUNTY “STRIKE.” WOODBINE, Md., July 9.— Charles Costley, Carroll Coun- ty farmer, is shown standing at the mouth of a shaft he sunk on his farm near here to mine a gold deposit. A Wash- ington gold mining company is financing the operations. Costley said he was getting some “fine concentrate” as the shaft went deeper. —Associated Press Photo. SILK HAT APPROVED BY NEW ZEALANDER New High Commissioner to Lon- | don Will Not Be “*Snobbish” About Court Dress. By the Associated Press. AUCKLAND, New Zealand, July 9 —New Zealand’s newly appointed high commissioner to London, whose | pavements he once pounded as a po- liceman, can take a high hat or leave it alone. He is W. J. Jordan, succeeding to the officé of Sir James Parr. Jordan was questioned concerning his atti- tude toward wearing court dress. “I always believe in wearing the | garb of the job.” he said. “I started life in London in a policeman’s uni- form, worked in New Zealand as a alls. “A man can have a heart below a | silk hat, and if T am invited to the | palace, I hope I shall not be such a snob as to refuse to dress like the others.” CRAVEN AUTOPSY THIRD, SAN FRANCISCO, July 9 (#).—A bushman, then wore a painter’s over- | THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., THURSDAY, JULY 0, Man Disappears After Dive, But Returns to Home |Came Up Near Strange - Boat, But Had to Swim Ashore. By the Associated Press. ELIZABETH, N. J., July 9.—Great was the consternation of Herman Fieldman, 30—Herman himself ex- pressed his amazement to police— when he rowed a boat with two chil- dren from Elizabeth almost to the Statue of Liberty, in New York Har- bor, dived into the water for a swim and came to the surface to find a boat with three strange boys in it. The three strange boys didn’t want him in their boat, so, clad only in his underwear, he swam to a pler in Clinton, Staten Island. There New York policemen gave him emergency covering and took him to the Goethals Bridge, which leads to Elizabeth. He hitchhiked to within a block of his home when Plainclothesman James Y. Yoos, puzzling at his strange cloth- ing, questioned him and learned of his strange plight. Clarence Pentz, 10, and Herman L. 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