Word: coding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Henry Ford continued to stay in the nation's headlines by doing nothing at all last week. As a "rugged individualist" he persisted in holding out against "robust collectivism" in the form of the NRA automobile code. He puttered around his northern Michigan camp, gave no inkling of his intentions, sneaked back to Detroit in the rear of a canvas-sided auto trailer. His friends said he was more concerned with his health than with the Blue Eagle. His critics called him a stubborn old codger who had never learned to cooperate with anyone...
Wages of about 25% of the 40,000 Ford factory employes were last week scaled up from a $4 per day minimum to $4.80. Outsiders thought the increase was Mr. Ford's first move to go his industry's code one better. Insiders declared it was all part of an old wage-upping program...
Next day Cleveland's Frank Taplin, famed union mine operator who wants a U. M. W. code, called on Administrator Johnson, declared: "General, you're letting that gang of non-union Appalachian operators make a sucker out of you." Rapped back General Johnson: "You wouldn't think so if you knew what I told them yesterday...
...example, that nothing but the Ohio River separated Western Kentucky's $3.84 per day scale and Illinois' $5. Having listened to such talk for six weeks, General Johnson was unmoved. With the law and the President behind him, he was supremely confident of riveting a coal code on the industry this week...
...fight for free oil prices, it was a bitter defeat. He had seen Sococal, often a maverick in the Standard family, stampede to the price-fixers, drawing Sohio with it. He had seen his $100,000-a-year vice president James Moffett resign to help draft the code. And last week he saw Price-fixer Moffett go on the P. C. C. as one of the NRA's three representatives, saw Presidents Kingsbury of Sococal and Holliday of Sohio go on as representatives of the industry. Only other company committeemen were Presidents Reeser of Barnsdall, Dawes of Pure...