Word: coding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sugar Institute has dwindled rapidly with the rise of the trade association under the NRA to the position of a quasi-public body. The Sugar Institute has not yet been dignified with administrative powers of most other trade associations, for sugar refiners are still drafting a code. Though anti-trust prosecution and the NRA are by no means irreconcilable. Judge Mack made haste to wash his hands of the whole question. Preparing to grant the injunction which the Government will ask. Judge Mack said: "If and when a code shall have been approved for this industry the injunction decree...
...convention in Washington last fortnight both President Roosevelt and General Johnson had much to say about the "little fellow" who found himself and his business painfully pinched by code provisions. On General Johnson's desk last week lay a complaint from a business man in Columbus, Ga. which was typical of the little fellow's troubles. Tom (not Thomas) Huston was asking to be relieved from the operation of the chewing gum code. Tom Huston has not always been a gummaker. He used to be in the peanut business. Last year his gum salesmen spent so much time...
...Julep Gums." Having no capital with which to start a gum factory, he arranged to have his product made under contract by Walla-Walla Chewing Gum Co. of Knoxville, Tenn. Almost before he knew what had happened Tom Huston found himself forced in under the Chewing Gum Manufacturers' Code which contains this clause: "No member of the Industry shall guarantee the sale of his product by the purchaser thereof...
...retail outlets have ever called on him to make good his money-back agreement, but that in new territory his salesmen cannot sell without it. It was to stifle just such new competitors, charges Tom Huston, that the big gum-makers inserted the clause in the code. "My hopes of making Julep Chewing Gum a nationally known product from coast to coast are hopes that have been blasted...
...York, March 16--Gen. Hugh S. Johnson, NRA administrator, and members of the auto code authority will confer here tomorrow in an effort to avert the threatening strike of 100,000 men in the industry expected Wednesday...