NATIONAL UPLIFT

Northern Advocate, 18 July 1933, Page 5

NATIONAL UPLIFT

AMERICAN INDUSTRY. FORMER WAGES RESTORED. MILLION WORKERS REJOICE. (Received 10.30 a.m.) WASHINGTON, July 17. For nearly one million w’orking men and women in the United iStates the depression was as good as ended today, when their wages w T ere suddenly lifted back to the purchasing level of better days by voluntary co-operation of industry with the Government. For hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions more, the day holds out hope of similar good fortune in the immediate future.

Textile workers, not only in cotton, Imt rayon, silk and allied products all over the North and South went 'back to the mills on a 40-hour week schedule at rates of pay intended to give them the purchasing power of 1929. In steel mills, labour is earning 1”> per cent more than last week, and in some cases even better.

A. “boost” back to the 1902 level in countless other industries, which have submitted or soon will present their so-called codes of fair competition contracts by which the Government allows them to regulate themselves in exchange for giving labour a lift, and which promises a real living wage to workers, is near realisation.

This is the fruit of intensive work by Brigadier Hugh Johnson and a corps of aides ordered by President .Roosevelt to administer the political plan of the National Recovery Law, the main spring of his programme for restoring prosperity. *. i