HOURS AND WAGES

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22205, 7 March 1934, Page 7

HOURS AND WAGES

AN AMERICAN PROPOSAL

WASHINGTON, March 5.

' ' (Received March 6, at 7 p.im) General Hugh Johnson, the National Recovery Act administrator, to-night tentatively proposed to the industrial member* of the several hundred code

authorities that working hours- in all code* be reduced by 10 per cent., and that thisbe accompanied by alO per cent; increase in wages. "INESCAPABLE CONCLUSION." THE PRESIDENT'S DECLARATION. ' » WASHINGTON, March 5; * (Received March 6, at 8,35 p.m.) Resident Roosevelt; addressing several thousand .members" of the National 7. Becoyery Act code,authorities, who were assembled for three days for a review of their activities, proclaimed the necessity ;,for the T National Recovery Act for economic rehabilitation ahd : at the same time flouted fears that.it was the foref runner ©1 .Fascism or Communism. •?'-.[ "Etfery. examination I make leads 7--16 the inescapable conclusion that we' . must now consider immediate co-opera--7 tion to secure an increase in wages and a shortening of hours. We must set up •very safeguard against i erasing small operators from the economic scene, and tha Ir»t task of industry to-day y is to create ooMuming power. It is the immediate task of iindustry to re-employ ■■'- people at purchasing wages and do it < (low; I am a little amused at' those few who proclaim tearfully tliat we are now committed to Communism, eollcctivisnt, or a Fascist dictatorship." the Supreme Court decision upholding ' the right of the New York State to fix i minimum milk prices is Interpreted here an indication of the constitutionality of similar Federal price fixing under the National \Recovery Act.