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 SIrATIOlL0AL'RECOVRY ADi"IiI S'MATION ,I



 May 25, 1934



M14r. Jaues C. Worthy
Assistant Deouty AdcL'inistrrtor
National Recovery Adjliinistr 't ion
Washington, D. C.

 RE: Lr _ies' H1ndbag: Code Authority

Dear Mr. Worthy:

 Shortly after this Code Authority started it3 session last night,
Notice of Hear7rin_ ,7ith roso'ict to definition of sepi-skillecd w-orkers
t.nd the plea for a chrn-u of the Code Authority -peisonnel on the ground
that it is not truly repornse':tntive, ,.as read a.nd the fire works were
on. I thought my mi llinery friends coulO. fight but they don't know how
to go about it as do the ue:be; o of the LadiesI H-.rndbr.g Codr. Authority.
So nuch bitterness developed that I finally adjourned the meeting at
ten-thirty and said if the industry members of the Authority cared to
stay, I would be gird to sit u-p all night if n.ecessrxry, and stay all
day on Friday, for the purpose of tr;ring to arrive at an amicable settle
ment of the differences thn,., exist between the various factions and
r oup s.

 This they aVreed to Lo -nd I asked thiat Labor ,ind the code director U
leave. I thereupon started the meeting which lasted until nearly four
o'clock this morning. When I mc,de this offer, I, of course, realized a
number of others had attempted to do the sane thing, including your own
good selves, but feeling; that perhaps the situatib-n night be a little .
different today as a result of the work, little as it has been on the
surface, done by the ('ode Authority, I blithely set out on, That shall
I say my errand of aercy. Oh boy, I am a 1-reck to .y but I do see a
little glimmering of light and the possibility of finding a common gro
upon which they can all agree.

 The basis of my thought is that all present associations shall go ai
of business and that there be formed one new association, th. name of
which is imr.terial at this point, and the aembershi-) of whichh shall be-
-ll -reozc-it -ie-b-;rs of the old groups; and that possibly the memrbershipI1
of the Code Authorityr should consist of a number of men representing i
out-of-to-n, equallin,-; those representing Ne,'r York or some such oroOer :
b sis. i

 It then developed, and this is '-here the .-re-test bone of conten- :
tion lies, that the proposed definiti-,in of senii-s'-illed -'orkers is the ,
kernel if the whole situntio.i. It sees to be evident that there is tow.'
"ide a labor cost differential e:;isti;a jet;emen i.e" York and out of towh
Of course, o't of town feels this is not so but as is usual, neither sif
has any fact u-ion whichh one cla reach a reasonable conclusion.
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