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...William H Davis presided at the hearing. The dry-cleaners were read a decision just handed down in a New Jersey State court, permitting the NRA to enjoin a cleaner from cutting prices, on the grounds that "no citizen has any right in this emergency" to defy his industrial code. Chief plaint heard by the Compliance Director was that cash-&-carry cleaners were required to charge their customers the same rates as call-&-deliver cleaners. In chorus the cash-&-carriers squealed that they were being ruined...
...prepared to review the code's price schedule, but, meantime, violators would be turned over to the Federal Trade Commission unless they promised to go and sin no more against Recovery. On the strength of this combined promise and threat, 50 of the littlest cleaners knuckled under, among them the St. Petersburg, Fla. "pressing-club" proprietor whom Federal Judge Akerman, on a technicality, had exculpated from the charge of "chiseling" the NRA fortnight before (TIME, Dec. 11). Those big enough to have lawyers for the most part did not knuckle under. Hysterically cried one Irving Brukstone, representing Chicago...
...newshawks faced Secretary of Agriculture Wallace in his office with Agricultural Adjustment Administrator George Peek stony-faced at his elbow. The Secretary explained that: 1) the production of corn and hogs must be cut because the export of pork had fallen off; 2) the packers would be handed a code which provided the Government access to their books, power to control their margin of profit; 3) the AAA's milk marketing agreements were unsatisfactory and would have to be revised to control dairy production...
...excited over the possibility that liquor dealers were taking undue advantage of the drinking public was Dr. James M. Doran. For 26 years Dr. Doran has been on the Government payroll, since 1930 as Commissioner of Industrial Alcohol. As chairman of the Distillers Code Authority he said last week: "A mere boom. It is absurd for anyone to predict the price of liquor for the next few days...
...There are certain code mechanisms already adopted that limit machine hours, prevent the substitution of machines for human labor, set minimum prices, and prevent the sale of commodities at less than cost. Through all these methods the N.R.A. is pointing the way for monopolistic price-fixing and limitation of output. The consumer is very likely to be seriously injured, and therefore it is in his behalf that I oppose the N.R.A...