THORNS IN CODING PLAN

Hawera Star, Volume LIII, 12 September 1933, Page 5

THORNS IN CODING PLAN

LABOUR CAUSES CONFUSION RESTIVENESS GROWING-. • LONG STRIKE BY BAKERS. COAL. CRISIS APPROACHING. (United Presa Association —By Electric Telegraph Copyrigut-; NEW YORK, Sept. 11. . An example of the peculiar difficulties facing the local National Recovery Act boards is the failure successfully to negotiate in ’ a strike of 2500 bakers of fancy cakes and confections. . Tha strike has been m progress for several months. Hie union leaders allege the specialty bakery owners’ association is unwilling’’ to cooperate under the Recovery Act. A temporary court injunction forbids the strikers the right to picket, and they are threatening to take the matter to the highest courts to clarify the legality of picketing under the N.R.A. Such manifestations as the bakers’ strike are examples cf the general confusion- respecting labour' 'features Oil the N.R.A. which are now being threshed out at Washington. With the larger industries there is noticeable growing restiveness ' among many classes of workers, and similar comparatively small strikes are breaking out in other sections of the country. It is believed a settlement of the coal code which is now before the administration at Washington will effect an adjustment of differences in the smaller industries, but meanwhile strikes are causing considerable worry to the local and national administration boards. The negotiation of the coal code now appears to be reaching a crisis, with some observers predicting that President Roosevelt will eventually have to use force on recalcitrant operators. The code formulated by the administration met with reservations by the operators of such a nature as virtually to constitute rejection of the entire code. They still resist the “closed shop” provision, while it is understood President Roosevelt is determined to adhere to the original wording of the Act and allow labour the right to organise as it sees fit.