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...step last week which won him a fresh armful of bouquets from them- and a shower of brickbats from organized reporters. Over the protest of the American Newspaper Guild, President Roosevelt ordered the National Labor Relations Board to pass the case of Dean Sothern Jennings back to the Newspaper Code Authority's Industrial, Board for final settlement...
...Washington, NRA will go on trial before the U. S. Supreme Court because a smalltime battery manufacturer in York, Pa. could not pay the 40? per hour minimum wage required by his code. No newsreel camera was on the spot when Fred Perkins was visited by the Federal marshal, told he was violating the law, but he and his wife and his workmen will never forget the scene. To York, Pa. and into Fred Perkins' home and battery shop went The March of Time's photoreporters (scriptwriter, director, cameramen). The story was reconstructed and rehearsed just...
...public does not find such prices a barrier to buying. Hence man by man, hour by hour, Business rose to argue and protest against what NRA proposed. The substance of the argument was put on its highest plane by George A. Sloan, head of the Cotton Textile Code Authority: ''Maximum hours and minimum wage provisions, useful and necessary as they are in themselves, do not prevent price demoralization. While putting the units of an industry on a fair competitive level in so far as labor costs are concerned, they do not prevent destructive price cutting in the sale...
Furthermore, the Oil Code, undisturbed by the Supreme Court's decision, was still in force. That code was supposed to outlaw hot oil but, through an "error" which was not discovered for nearly a year, the pertinent section was missing from certified official copies...
...Administration, however, has no intention of confining its strenuous strivings for Federal regulation of a great natural resource to a mere code. But Vice President Garner and some of Mr. Roosevelt's best legislative friends are good Texas Democrats who mortally hate & fear the thought of Federal meddling in their State's biggest business. It was the Texas delegation that succeeded in shelving the toothy Thomas-Disney oil control bill in the last session of Congress. Even last week Texas' Congressman Sam Rayburn, who chairmans the powerful House Interstate Commerce Committee, took time out to thunder...