"BLUE EAGLE” TANGLE

Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 18, 16 October 1933, Page 9

"BLUE EAGLE” TANGLE

(Code Violators Who Hold N.R.A. Emblems WASHINGTON’S QUANDARY By Telegraph-—Press Assn.—Copyright (Received October 15, 7 p.m.) ' Washington, October 13. General Hugh Johnson, administrator of the National Recovery Act, in a Press interview to-day admitted that the N.R.A. faced a serious enforcement problem as regards recalling the Blue Eagle emblems from alleged code violators. He referred to the right of the President to take such steps under the agreements signed, but admitted that he did not know if the action could be enforced in the courts. General Johnson deprecated the possibility that those losing the emblems, with their names published, might have grounds for a libel suit against the Government, and indicated that more withdrawals would follow proper complaints. Meanwhile, according to reports from New Rochelle (New York), one loser of the eagle has reported that increased business resulted. The proprietors of a beauty salon there were asked to give up the eagle on charges of paying employees less than the minimum wage specified In the code. They did so, after which business was immediately stimulated, and they announced they would cut prices and wages and hire more operators, this in direct contradiction to the N.R.A. policy. General Johnson to-day indicated that the administration considers the dispute regarding “captive” Coal mines to be closed. He declared that the executives’ acceptance of a check-off was satisfactory. Miners still refusing to return to work would be considered as code violators. STABILISED DOLLAR Unwarranted at Present (Received October 15, 11 p.m.) New York, October 15. An Associated Press dispatch from Washington states it was learned tonight that a high authority in the Government considers that prices are not yet high enough to warrant the stabilisation of the dollar and that “it would be absurd to attempt in the present circumstances to stabilise the dollar against foreign exchange.” The correspondent adds that President Roosevelt plans to provide dollars of constant purchasing power, but must await a higher price level. TAXES SIDE-STEPPED Revelations in Washington Washington, October 13. James Forrestal, a partner in the firm of Dillon, Reed and Co., told the Senate to-day that he paid no income tax in 1929 on 864,000 dollars’ stock profit, by means of setting up with his wife a personal company in Canada. The tax, he declared, would have been 91,000 dollars. However, it was disclosed that the banker this year paid 6000 dollars’ tax on the Canadian company after the recent disclosures before the committee concerning the incomes of other bankers. It was also revealed to-day that a 300,000 dollars’ loan, only half Of which had been repaid, was made to a director, Mr. Couch, of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, by Dillon, Reed and Co. in 1928. RIOT IN NEW YORK Ended by Mounted Police New York, October 13. Mounted police rode their horses through the ranks of 3500 demonstrators at the National Recovery Act headquarters on Friday, making 50 arrests. Riots started when 2000 striking members in the tailoring industry assembled, and officials alleged that the demonstration was inspired by a Communistic faction, which refused to be taken into the right wing unions, following N.R.A. mediation in the threatened strike of 25,000 workers in the clothing shops of the neighbourhood. DISEASE, ACCIDENT Annual Loss in Industry (Received October 14, 7 p.m.) Chicago, October 13. At the College of Surgeons’ conference, Professor Beckwith, of White House University (Birmingham), in a survey presented to the college showed the annual losses to industry through accidents, disease, and outlined the “Medical Code” presented to the N.R.A. for the consideration df such conditions. It is estimated that five billion dollars is the annual cost of deaths and injuries in the nation’s industries, also that at least a billion dollars could be saved annually through an effective health and safety programme.