“RECOVERY” IN U.S.A.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18249, 18 November 1933, Page 5

“RECOVERY” IN U.S.A.

CONFLICTING CLAIMS

HEAVY STRIKE LOSSES

WASHINGTON, Nov. 16. The Secretary of Labor, Miss Frances Perkins, reported to-day that 85,000 workers had received jobs, and £1,200,000 had been added to the weekly payrolls during October, according to a survey of 89 manufacturing and 16 nonmanufacturing industries. Since March over 2,800,000 workers have returned to employment, with an addition of over £600,0CQ,000 to the pay-rolls within the seven-month period. Mr. Roosevelt to-day designated Mr. William Myers, at present deputy-gover-nor of the Farm Credit Administration, to succeed Mr. Morgenthau, jun. Mr. Myers was formerly professor of agriculture and economics at Cornell University. The first federal indictment for a violation of a National Recovery Act code was to-day returned by a grand jury here. The Government prepared the case with great care, following an exhaustive investigation, but the puzzling feature of the indictment is that it is against a'firm, the officers of which state that they did not sign the code because their business was outside the jurisdiction of the National Recovery Act. The indictment is against the Hercules gas filling stations, which are charged with violation of the working hours of the code, and failure to post the price of petrol in the manner prescribed. Those indicted claim that a number of their competitors who signed the code violated it in the same manner, and in order to compete they followed their competitors’ methods. The National Association of Manufacturers announced that 1630 strikes occurred in the United States during the first 10 months of the year, and 588,000 workers were involved. There were 1100 strikes in the last four months, with a wage loss of £4,800,000. The time lost was 7,000,000 working days, the employers losing £1,300,000. The total loss for the four months approximated £6,000,000.