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...cigaret code, lost in the White House office for days (TIME, Feb. 11), was found. Promptly the President signed it, bringing the big tobacco companies after 18 months' delay into NRA. Hardly had the President done so when William Green, who had just come off second-best in an argument with him, declared the A. F. of L. keenly disappointed that the minimum wage of the code was 25? an hour. One kick Mr. Green could not make: that S. Clay Williams, as head of NIRB and erstwhile president of R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., had been partial...
...renewal of the Automobile Code contrary to the wishes of the A. F. of L. followed by his blunt rebuff of A. F. of L. protests...
...Their Code renewed, motormakers turned in a production figure for January 1935 of 306,000 cars and trucks-87% above the same month last year and a January figure surpassed only twice (1926, 1929) in history...
...time of strike. For the past year the Federation has worried, and the more it worried the more urgently the Federation sought Government assistance. And the more importunate the Federation became, the more reluctant the Government seemed to be to give aid, until finally, over the renewal of the code for the great automobile industry, the President and A. F. of L. definitely breached...
Humiliated by these elections, the A. F. of L. roared its protest when President Roosevelt renewed the Automobile Code, extending it to the legal date of NRA's expiration, June 16. The President did not consult the A. F. of L., did not stipulate a 30-hr. week, did not abolish the hated merit clause. But what galled the Federation most was that, in renewing the Code, the President provided that the Wolman Board should continue to be binding on the industry...