AMERICA’S TASK

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 263, 4 October 1933, Page 2

AMERICA’S TASK

FOOD SHORTAGE POSSIBLE. THE CODES CRITICISED. (United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) Received October J, 2.15 p.m. WASHINGTON, Oct. 2. President Roosevelt’s address at the opening of the Legionaires’ Convention at Chicago was to-day’s N.lt.A. highlight. Meanwhile a serious food shortage is possible in New York, as 20,000 truck drivers started a strike in the early morning. Within a few hours the piers were piled high with undelivered Hour, grocery supplies and other goods. Many instances of violence are reported, including the dumping of a lorry load of flour into the sea. The Edgwater assembly plant, like that at Chester, was ordered to be closed by Mr Henry Ford to-day. Mr William Green, President of the Federation of Labour, opening a convention at Washington, not only demanded a 30 hour week, but criticised the hours and wages set up by many codes. He declared that Labour was “unflinchingly against inflation.” He stated that Labour knew that, when the dollar cheapened, prices would rise and wjges would stand still. He was not opposed to credit expansion. The N.R.A. to-day announced an immediate canvass of every employer in the country to determine the new employment increase in payrolls brought about by. the recovery programme since July 15. The census will be carried out by means of 3,000,000 confidential questionnaires.