DAILY PROGRESS

Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 95, 19 October 1933, Page 14

DAILY PROGRESS

BECOVEBY IX AMEBICA

MILESTONES ON THE WAY

(Received October 19, 2 p.m.) WASHINGTON, October 18. Although farm prices increased 32 per cent, against the average for the year ended March 31, it is understood that President Booseyelt feels that they are not yet high enough. figures also submitted show that factory employment in September compared with 1929 had recovered 40 per cent, of its decline and the income of factory workers had regained a quarter of the loss, while the living costs rose 9 per cent, from March to September, 1933. The Labour Department also announced that the upward trend of. wholesale prices which had begun in March had continued unbroken through. September with a 2 per cent, advance in the weighted index of 784 commodities. Meanwhile the retail code agreement, which is expected daily, has not yet been reached. Further discussions are pending. The N.H.A. offices were also today advancing plans for the enforcement of President Eoosevelt's order regarding violators. High officials in the automobile industry failed to appear at a hearing today before the National Labour Board on the tool and die makers' strike. It. is understood that they declined to come, declaring thiit. no 'N.E.A. code question was involved. Mr. Alvin Macauley, head of the National Automobile Chamber of Commerce, as well as Packard Motors, and Mr. William. Knudsen, executive vicepresident of General Motors, had been called. Both, it is understood, sent refusals by telegrams. The employing groups contended that there was no question of arbitration since the workers at Flint and Detroit had returned to their ,iobs. The opposing group stated that 17,000 were still striking. The strike in the collieries of the Hudson Coal Company, in the Pennsylvania anthracite area, called somo weeks ago, today spread to include 20,000 workers in the whole fields.