[?]N'T ADOPT CODE

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 630, 7 September 1933, Page 5

[?]N'T ADOPT CODE

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Idjustment of wages lvknd worklng hours in progress 51violation attempted

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theB Chicagjo, Sept. 5. ■government will take no action the®jg jjr- Ford into the National e o®ry Movement unless he violates R.Hes 0f the Automobile ManuL'°fljBers' Code, according to„ an an--d ^traent by General Hugh John^ltBday. lndHeral Johnson remarked: "It is !°n,B0rd's move. Mr. Ford's minidtnBay is high enough ; it tops the 0UfBum set up by the general code herB National Recovery Act." ihti® dictator indicated that the only iflL hy which Mr. Ford might come taBonfiict with the recovery proBie would be through his deale *®ith his employees. If Mr. Ford's RcBrees should organise and send 2 U®entatives to negotiate with him e, Biai Johnson stated) and Mr. isoB.efuged to meet them it would, 4 he violation of the auto'er®> code. Probably he will not troX, the code. If he does I will ier*o do sometliing." nS®rn Detroit ^ *s statecl (though Un®acking in official confirihation) iabsB re-adjustment of wages is nn■B, Bay in the Ford plant. It is esBstood that many employees who r' ®>fore have been receiving f our ttfls a day, the minimum wage, are TlBeceiving 4 dollars 80 cents per 4®How many of the 40,000 em3®es are affected by the upward 4 sRn has not been determined, but wBndicatod that the re-adjnstment dlaBges is a part of a factory-wide "Wor increasing workers' pay. Two Ks ago the Ford Motor ComjgiBadopted a five-day week and pren By adopted four dollars per day unS minimum wage.