BLUE EAGLE CAMPAIGN

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22099, 1 November 1933, Page 7

BLUE EAGLE CAMPAIGN

PUBLIC INTEREST WANING LEADERS EXPRESS CONCERN. WASHINGTON, October 18. Concern at reports that public interest in the Blue Eagle campaign shows a marked decline is frankly expressed by National Recovery Administration circles. Visitors to United States cities note that the theatre audiences are stated to be glum and unresponsive to_ the screen announcements of President Roosevelt, General Johnson, administrator of the N.R.A. campaign, and other leaders. Two months ago similar audiences went wild with enthusiasm.^ The National Labour Board is facing the necessity at an early date of fulfilling its promise that it would require .employers to submit t 6 its jurisdiction in labour disputes. The immediate case at hand is the nine Western Kentucky coal operators who 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. 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 continue under their re-employment agreements because competitors are violating them. Despite sincere efforts by General Johnson’s assistants,, “racketing” and “ chiselling ” by unddrhand violators of the N.R.A. arc very prevalent throughout the country.