Word: coding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...national drive against Child Labor. Last week Florence Kelley's grave at Brooklin, Me. was more than a year old but in Washington her cause marched on to score its biggest triumph. Cotton textile manufacturers were appearing before Industrial Recovery Administrator Johnson to get their work & wages code approved. Labor was pounding them hard for proposing to pay their employes too little ($10-$11 per week), work them too long (40 hours per week). Even the President of the U. S. last May had pointed a damning finger at them for using children in their mills. Administrator Johnson bluntly...
...Pennsylvania last May Mrs. Gifford Pinchot, wife of the Governor, took to the picket line as a protest against the exploitation of young girls in Northampton and Allentown shirt factories. Employers seduced 15-year-olds-or fired them. When a plant was fined for violating the State working code, the boss would take the fine out of the pay of his child laborers whose use had got him in trouble. Canning and food packing compose another industry which will have to purge itself of child labor when it brings its code to Washington for approval. Children are extensively used...
...Codes, Codes, Codes. Though President Roosevelt was off vacationing and Cabinet absences left Attorney General Cummings the Government's ranking officer on the job, Messrs. Baruch & Johnson had plenty of company in Washington last week. There was scarcely a private dining or meeting room in town which was not packed with the members of this or that trade group haggling over a code regulating minimum wages, maximum hours of work, prices and output which would make them eligible to do business under the Industrial Recovery Act. General Johnson flew to Manhattan during the week to advise other trade associations...
...itself chiefly with the paramount issues of wages and re-employment, the I. R. A. had failed to lay down specifications on intra-industry price-fixing, a vital factor to competing producers as well as to consumers. To clear up that Pineapple No. 2 General Johnson announced: "In these codes it will be proper for an industry to say it will not sell below cost of production. But if they use the code to fix extortionate prices. I should have to step in. . . ." Administrator Johnson hoped that industries would keep prices in the background "for at least 90 days" until...
Cotton Textiles. "We're gonna do this job in a goldfish bowl. We'll listen to everybody before we get through," promised General Johnson, referring to public hearings on all codes before their submission to the President for final approval. First "goldfish" to go on exhibit in the Washington bowl was the cotton textile industry. Week before a cotton textile code had been turned in to General Johnson. He thought the industry had done "a very beautiful job" even though its minimum wage fell $4.40 per week short of General Johnson's own standard and its maximum...