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...House, which passed it last month, for action on minor amendments. Aimed to stabilize the sick coal industry (see below), the bill lacks the labor provisions which caused Supreme Court invalidation of the original Guffey Coal Act, creates a National Bituminous Coal Commission to fix minimum prices, enforce a code of fair practices. ¶ Passed the wheat crop insurance bill which provides an appropriation of $100,000,000 to establish the Federal Crop Insurance Corp. through which wheat farmers, paying premiums in grain or cash, can insure their crops against natural hazards. If this pioneer legislation, which is concerned with...
...Passed the Guffey-Vinson coal control bill, imposing a 19½% tax on coal sales by producers who do not subscribe to a coal code fixing minimum coal prices; omitting the labor provisions which caused the old Guffey Coal Act to be invalidated. Sent it to the Senate...
...United Automobile Workers' de mand for recognition as sole bargaining agent for all Chrysler employes, Richard T. Frankensteen, chief automobile union organizer in Detroit, telephoned a code phrase "My hand is up" to his lieutenants in the factories and within two hours all Chrysler plants in Detroit were shut tight (TIME, March...
...years younger than Mr. Taylor and still owning an interest in the department store his father owned in Nashville, Tenn., George Arthur Sloan became a U. S. notable in June 1933, when as president of the Cotton-Textile Institute he walked into the White House with the first NRA code ever drafted. His trade association experience later included the big textile strike of 1934, during which picketers outside his Manhattan office sang: "We will hang George Sloan to a sour apple tree." An apostle of NRA cooperation, he predicted "inflation, chaos" on its demise. Since his resignation from the Institute...
...found the Act did not distinguish be tween the jurisdiction of Federal and State courts, recommended an omnibus code of U. S. law to include the Constitution, common law, Federal statutes and the laws of the several States which might arise in U. S. courts. Congress did nothing...