The Detroit News-Herald (Detroit, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. [22], Ed. 1 Thursday, September 7, 1933 Page: 4 of 4
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THE SCOPE AND PURPOSE OF THE
EMERGENCY
RE-EMPLOYMENT
CAMPAIGN
The President'* Emergency Reemployment Campaign may be
described briefly aa a plan to add from 5,000,000 to 6,000,000 persona
to the nation’s payrolls within the next six weeks or so, through
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la ordse that due number of jobs may be made available, it will
he necessary, of course, for employer! in many cases to shorten work-
ing hours. The plan also provides for certain minimum wage scales
which also in muf mift Will mean added labor costa for the employer.
3V The President’s Agreement, however, includes a pledge of coopera-
tion from the consuming public, and it is thus anticipated that the
employer, while undertaking a larger expense as the direct result of
bis agreement with the Pi esident, will' gain added patronage as the
iuat reward of his public spirited attitude.
The fact also is to be borne in mind that where all employers act
together to put peophe back on their payrolls or to raise wages, no
employer, as the President himself has pointed out, “will, suffer because
the relative level of competitive cost will advance by the same amount
It is to be understood that this plan is supplementary to the plan
of code adoption by various industrial and trade groups which has for ,
its purpose theoliminatinn of unfair competition, the establishment of
more equable rewards for labor, the spread of enpMvment and the1
control of production. This plan hue speeding recovery,
launched under the provisions of the National Recovery Act passed |
■ by the last Congress, is rapidly being made eflert’.ve, and there will
F be ua let-up on the drive to make its adoption wideaprerd.
The President’s Emergency Re-employment plan w.ll bridge time
and bring the nation out of the depression more vap: ily than if the
ware depended upon exclusively. The President’s
_ n many business group* that would not be amen*
«Me to any of the code arrangements.
„ Aad what ia stiR male important, perhapa, the President’s Emer-
gency Re employment campaign carries certain psychological value*
•bat ate aa prirelsss aa patriotism at this juncture of our economic
history. Tbe President himself made this quite clear in bia recent radio
• site as the nation wfami be aaidtrOW the basis of this.simple pein-
of everybody doing things together, we ars starting out on this
TStionwide ottorh ms unemployment, ft naif' succeed if our people
iinfirrrr"* it—in tbe big industries, its ike Utde shops, in the great
rirr— mU in the small villages. There it nothing complicated about it
^ cud then is nothing particularly mam m the principle. It goes back to
the basic Horn of society, mod of the Notion itself, that people meting \
in e group cam accomplish dungs which no individual meting alone
could™ bop. to bring obontT
Tims we have all the power and potency of mass attack directed
unemployment: In every community,
organisations ere fmmed along military lins^ which iecfitUag enough,
because the Pmident’s Emergency Re-easploymont campaign ia Undo
Sam’s war on unemployment andj^rMtioB^UraUying to the colors jurt
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The 1ml comu*m ia made up of the active beads of the leading
hmtinnr and civic organizations, and includes also the mayor: These
committees in the thousands of cities snd towns throughout the country
were formed following telegrams and letters sent by General Johnson
to the presidents of Chamber* of Commerce or similar trade bodies in
j every section of the United-States. These local committees elect a gen-
eral to have charge of the city campaign and a lieutenant general who
is a woman. The general selects three colonels, each of wlytm is tp Jako
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na* cnargr u* iuc auui*|ww« w mhsoiu«iuu« ut-pusiwuim v..mu» *..»
I j direction block-to-block canvasses will be made to check up on com*
] pliance with the President’s Agreement, and to make a survey of the
| unemployed, as to adaptability by experience as to trades and indus-
tries and thus be able more readily to help in the processes of assimila-
tion of lalmr by expanding industries. Colonel No. 2, briefly, has charge
of newspaper publicity and kindred activities; and Colonel No. 3 has
(be training and direction of public speakers under his charge.
Each of these three colonels has seven or more majors on his staff,
and each major has about the same number of captains. Each captain
ha* seven or more field Workers. All of the local organizations are, of
course, constantly supplied with educational and inspirational material
of all kinds from the National Recovery Administration ia Washington.
* . Literally tons and tons 6i printed matter has been shipped to every
liook and corner of the country.
* The NJLA. emblem, known popularly as the Blue Eagle, is one of
the most interesting and vital features of. the campaign. All employers
who sign the Preside.it’s Agreement are entitled to display the Blue
Eagle with the initials N.R.A. and the words “We Do Our Part."
Merchants, manufacturers and all others who .have the right to display
the insignia by reason of their having complied with the President’s
Agreement, are permitted to hang it on their walls, or in their windows,
or on trucks and cars, and, if they so desire, to stamp it on their prod-
ucts or merchandise. It ia, in fact, the desire of the Recovery Admin-
istration that all make liberal use of this badge of patriotism.
Any person in the United States who wishes to cooperate in the
President’s Emergency Re-employment Campaign and be considered aa
| ti member of the N.R.A. may go to the authorized establishment in his
locality and sign a statement of cooperation as foDows:
“I will cooperate in reemployment by supporting and patron-
ising employers and workers who ore members of NJLA."
Any such signer will then be given and may thereafter use the
Insignia of consumer membership in NJLA.
Every phase of the progress of this mighty campaign wffl be flashed
| in the newspapers of the country aad announced constantly over thu
radio. In this way everyone will be ia a poeition to know just what the
campaign ft doing from day to day in actually putting people back out
the payroll* and adding to the mam purchasing power of the country.
3* While, as kas been stated, k is denied that liberal uee of the
Insignia ha nude by employer aad consumers, it ia to be remembered
that the official NJLA. emblem is the praperty of the United Staton
Government and may not be need or reproduced without authority of
ffim National Recovery Administration.
The lists of sfl employer* who sign the Pnsideut’s Agreement are
1 dhpleyed in local post-offices and ft is urged (fast all employee* who
hove not yet signed the agreement do oo immediately aad dsiivor them
to their local poot-master.
[ With ootne minor exceptions, tbe terms of tbe Preeident’e Agree-
ment with employers is. briefly, as follows: Any employer of a factory
or mechanical worker or artieaa must not pay him tern than 40 <
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The Detroit News-Herald (Detroit, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. [22], Ed. 1 Thursday, September 7, 1933, newspaper, September 7, 1933; Detroit, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth901916/m1/4/: accessed June 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Red River County Public Library.