Word: coding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...When the Recovery Act expires next June it should be renewed for one year only on a limited basis. Continuation of codes should be voluntary; minimum wages, maximum hours and prohibition of child labor should be a parf of all codes; Section 7(a) should be amended so as not to force a closed shop on any industry; price fixing should be limited to the prevention of "price demoralization''; no industry not in interstate commerce should be codified: the Government should not require compliance certificates or discriminate against any firm until it is judicially adjudged a code violator...
Price-fixing was written into the Oil Code on the ground that it would help conserve a great natural resource. Hordes of hungry businessmen from other prostrate industries were soon loudly demanding the same thing. Before the battle of the codes was done, NRA was fixing garage rentals, dry-cleaning charges and the price of a shampoo. Out of 677 codes in force today, no less than 510 provide for some measure of price control...
...June 1933 President George A. Sloan of the Cotton Textile Institute walked into the White House, slapped down on President Roosevelt's desk a cotton textile agreement which, with modifications, became the first NRA code. When Mr. Sloan tried to resign as chairman of the Code Authority and president of the Textile Institute last summer, the industry would not hear of it. Fortnight ago the Institute re-elected him president. Last week, complaining of the "double load of important activities," he compromised by keeping his job with the Code Authority but resigning his job with the Institute. Goldthwaite...
...Call-Bulletin management, challenging the board's jurisdiction, refused to appear at the hearing. Up went the case to the National Labor Relations Board in Washington. Again Publisher Hearst, through counsel, insisted that jurisdiction belonged solely to the Newspaper Industrial Board created under the Newspaper Publishers' Code. That code permitted of no modification without the consent of the publishers who subscribed to it. For the Labor Relations Board to take over the Jennings case, it was argued, would constitute "modification" which in turn would nullify the code which in turn would justify all publishers in withdrawing...
...Richberg, "Assistant President," had gone to the defense of Publisher Hearst, had asked the Labor Board to reopen the case. Again Chairman Biddle held court, heard what amounted to a rebuke to himself by Mr. Richberg and NRA Counsel Blackwell Smith on "respect, co-operation and support" of NRA Codes. Prime point: The order establishing the Labor Board said that it "may decline" to take jurisdiction if a code provides other means of settling a dispute. In the case of the Newspaper Code, a special Industrial Board was provided to handle such cases as that of Dean Jennings. Hence...