NATIONAL RECOVERY

Feilding Star, Volume 11, Issue 4180, 1 March 1934, Page 5

NATIONAL RECOVERY

Plans in United States ..... ,i TWELVE NEW POINTS SHORTER WORKING HOURS FOR HIGHER WAGES PREVENTING MONOPOLIES By Telegraph—Press Assn—Copyright (Aust. and N.Z. Cable) Washington, February 28 General Johnson, Administrator of the National Recovery Act, addressing a public meeting for the purpose of constructive criticism, today reviewed the National Recovery Administration’s accomplishments and projected a twelve-point programme to widen tli e . scope of codes. The principal features are:— A further reduction in working hours. An increase in hourly wages. A more uniform and equitable rule of price stabilisation to prevent cutthroat competition, with further insurance against prices outstripping purchasing power. A more effective rule to prevent sales below cost of production. Uniformity of wages and hours in competitive industries. Protection against monopoly.

A wider use of mechanism for settling labour disputes. Adequate labour and consumer re presentation in an advisory capacity on code authorities.