“BUY NOW”

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 659, 11 October 1933, Page 5

“BUY NOW”

(Press Assn.-

AMERICANS INAUGURATE A NEW INTENSIVE CAMPAIGN VIOLENCE AT MINES

— By Telegraph — Copyright) .

Washington, October 9 A reintensified "Buy Now" campaign has been inaugurated by the National Recovery Act administration in an elfort to stimulate lagging business, to increase employment in capital goods production and distribution. and also to consolidate the re-employ-ment which already has been achievcd. Buying by the American housewife, who it is pointed out controls 85 per cent. of the income of the nation's families, will be urged not only as a patriotic duty but "good investment" in anticipation of a further rise in prices. Meanwhile the labour situation continues the outstanding problem before the Administration. Thousands of ' striking miners are returning to work in the "captive" mines of Western Pennsylvania in responsc to Mr. Roosevelt's plea to resume production pending negotiations, but violence ,in other sectors has flared. up, and martial law has been [declared in the Sullivan County (InIdiana), militia. maintaining order. I The long standing tension between [the co-operatively-operated mines and [the union broke into open violence |Many operators owning unprofitable [mines have allowed the workers to loperate on a co-operative basis to ■which the union objects. If the trouble lcontinues it is unknown what action, ■if any, the National Recovery Act adiBiinistration will take, as the code lcontains no provision governing such Ivoluntary collective operations.