Word: coding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Arkansas was not the only State to consider the labor of convicts last week. President Roosevelt approved an NRA code for prisons-signed by 28 States. Its notable provisions...
Editor Sinnott: Our main kick is that you are shooting too fast, it makes us all dizzy. You are trying to get heaven on earth-a code for this and a code for that. . . . But I didn't know the newspaper trade was exactly a sweat shop...
...baiting cousin "Bertie" McCormick, publisher of the Chicago Tribune. The News was the first newspaper in Manhattan to adopt a five-day week, first to fly the Blue Eagle. It roundly flayed the Press at large for pleading "freedom of the press" as a defense against an NRA newspaper code. It scolded its brothers for resisting Child Labor laws against newsboys and openly stated that it hoped to eliminate all newsboys from its own circulation system. It regularly whangs New York's archaic divorce laws and the breach of promise racket. It promised not to heckle President Roosevelt...
...used in miners' meetings to make him undisputed leader of the United Mine Workers. They were also used in private wage bickering with coal operators. Neither setting gave him the public recognition which he deserved. General Johnson settled the threatened coal strike by amendments to the bituminous coal code that cut hours from eight to seven per day, raised wages. The Appalachian coal operators, in whose mines the United Mine workers are strongest, were prompt to accept the agreement. The operators of the South and Southwest, who in years past have worsted the United Mine Workers, stood out against...
...General Johnson's suggestion, code authorities in Washington have been making surveys of potential buyers for machinery, plant equipment, and other products of capital goods industries-slowest to respond to Recovery. Last week the first to report was the cotton textile industry, which was also the first to sign a code. After a survey of 500 cotton mills representing one-half of the industry's 30,000,000 spindles, the Cotton Textile Code Authority discovered that mill owners were willing to spend $86,000,000 in addition to present commitments in the next 18 months - 60% for manufacturing...