BLUE EAGLE CAMPAIGN.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 285, 30 October 1933, Page 8

BLUE EAGLE CAMPAIGN.

PUBLIC INTEREST WANING. jEADERS EXPRESS CONCERN. Concern at reports that public interest in the Blue Eagle campaign . shows a marked decline is frankly ex- ? pressed by National Recovery adminI' istration circles (says a Washington message dated October 18). || Visitors to United States cities note that the theatre audiences are stated j» to be glum and unresponsive to the | screen announcements of President I- Roosevelt, General Johnson, adminisfi trator of the N.R.A. campaign, and || other leaders. Two months ago similar % audiences went wild with enthusiasm, j;': The National Labour Board is facing ■j the necessity at an early date of fulH filling its promise that it would re--1 quire employers to submit to its juris- | diction in labour disputes. 1 The immediate case at hand is the f nine Western Kentucky coal operators : ivho ignored and defied summonses to ; a hearing on charges that they were \ discriminating against union labour. There are numerous other cases of alleged defiance of code regulations, i Regarding the “blanket code,’' a big enforcement problem has developed. * Some notable violators of the Blue Eagle have been disciplined, but they refuse to take down their ensigns when ordered. Sharp protests continue to reach . Washington in considerable numbers $ from owners of establishments who say | ; that they can no longer afford to coni' tinue under their re-employment agrecf ments because competitors are violat- | ing them. Despite sincere efforts by General Johnson’s" assistants., “racket- ; ing” and “chiseling” by underhanded 1 violators (of the N.R.A. are very pre- | valent throughout the country. * , : ;v v =—=• .'