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...opening the NRA "Buy Now" campaign, while Mrs. Roosevelt and daughter started a little recovery campaign of their own by promising to accept from a Manhattan manufacturer the first two ladies' coats with NRA tags sewn in them, to prove they were stitched under the coat & suit code...
Marshaling his parade toward Recovery, by last week President Roosevelt had swung Industry into line with a series of NRA codes. The nation's storekeepers were being regimented under a Retail Code. He was about to turn his attention to the nation's consumers, whose purchasing power was to be set in motion with a "Buy Now" campaign. Special posters, silhouets of the Capitol in blue, were rolling from the presses. Individual manufacturers were ready to launch private advertising campaigns. General Hugh Johnson declared that the "flat wallet era" was about...
...Pennsylvania. While the President thus addressed all U. S. Labor, he was particularly mindful of 55,000 insubordinate Pennsylvania coal miners. These men had originally struck to force recognition of their union. United Mine Workers of America, by non-union operators. In the code and contract that became operative last week, the miners had won this objective. Their union chief had ordered them back to work, when they demanded something more: recognition of U. M. W. by the operators of "captive"' mines- those owned by the non-union steel industry. The steel men had agreed to give their miners...
Although he might license out of existence any mine, shop or factory which violated its industrial code, no law empowered the President to make workers work. Personality and the prestige of his office were all the President could bring to bear. How he had tried these were revealed by Philip Murray, the United Mine Workers' white-haired, black-browed vice president, in a speech at Pittsburgh last week...
...this has been a recognized plank of Fascist policy since that party came to the fore, and its adoption by the N.R.A. will be an unpleasant piece of plagiarism. For these boards cannot possibly discover violations of code agreements unless apprised of them by the labor of each industry: the job of policing would be entirely too vast, and the violations could be too easily veiled. It is asking a great deal of Labor, which contrary to silly reports of selfishness, has not been able, in the larger industries, to raise its individual weekly wages above the regular depression...