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Here are a lot of resolutions sent me by businessmen promising to live up to code standards, but most of them add "as long as we are able." Even a well-meaning businessman will have to cut wages if the 10% of chiselers in every business force him by cutting prices. Voluntary co-operation is hopeless. Here's a columnist-saying that he hopes the death of NRA will end a lot of industrial confusion. I hope he is right. And here is an editorial printed in a nation-wide chain of newspapers giving thanks that "at last...
...Lewis' union workers all that he asked. And Mr. Lewis had seen that if the badly overexpanded coal industry could charge high prices, Labor could demand and get a slice of the profits. Only trouble was that from the standpoint of maintaining coal prices, the Soft Coal Code went to pieces some six months ago. Three weeks ago meeting in Washington miners and operators amicably agreed that: "the operators are in no position to make definite commitments for wages, hours and conditions of employment...
...ingenious devices to get around the Supreme Court's ruling. But by the end of the week one fact was manifest: The Supreme Court had shattered NRA into such fine particles that a new brand of cement would be needed to make them stick together again. NRA wired code authorities that their official status and official existence had ended-both "officials" underlined. Attorney General Cummings announced that the Administration was abandoning 411 NRA cases in the courts...
...notice that their jobs would terminate June 16. He called his Cabinet together, held another press conference, spent many more hours with Congressional leaders. Meanwhile the U. S. Chamber of Commerce and the National Manufacturers Association were urging all businessmen not to cut wages and lengthen hours, to uphold code standards. A. F. of L.'s William Green warned workers to resist any changes attempted by employers. All denounced the chiseling which "had been begun in many places." NRA ordered defunct code authorities to wire it collect reports of all code infractions. The reports were withheld from the public...
Reports trickled into the Press of wage cuts. A restaurant in Honolulu had put waitresses on a $4 seven-day week. Most news concerned the textile industry, pride of the Blue Eagle, first to take a code. At Lincolnton, N. C. mill hours were upped from 40 to 50 per week, minimum wages also upped from $12 to $16. At Greenville, S. C. the Piedmont Shirt Co. cut wages 25%, upped hours from 36 to 40 hours. At Atlanta 20 piecework shirtwaist makers struck when wages were cut from $1.80 to $1.50 a dozen, hours upped from...