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Newshawks asked President Roosevelt when he was going to sign the Cigaret Code. He answered that he did not know; it had been sent him five days before, had been lost in the White House offices...
...take away the Call-Bulletin's Blue Eagle (TIME, Dec. 24). Instantly the newspaper publishers of the U. S. sprang to arms. Dodging the merits of the Jennings case, the publishers insisted that the Labor Board had no jurisdiction over newspaper employes' complaints; that the Newspaper Code provided a special Industrial Board, composed of four employers' and four employes' representatives to handle such matters. Up to the line of battle the publishers trundled their biggest field gun, when Howard Davis, plump, sleek president of the American Newspaper Publishers Association and chairman of the Code Authority, told...
Such was the situation last week when President Roosevelt stepped in. To Chairman Francis Biddle of the Labor Board he wrote a "hands-off" letter which, at first blush, looked like surrender to the publishers. Acknowledging that a few of the 550 NRA codes contained special provisions for adjudicating labor disputes, the President laid down three principles limiting the Labor Board's activities in such cases: 1) The Labor Board shall refuse to hear any complaint or even review testimony. 2) It may hear complaints that a Code Board is improperly constituted, and submit recommendations to the President...
...meticulous Times and the loudly liberal Post printed Mr. Broun's comments about publishers and the President. Taking to the radio to point out this fact, President Broun delivered an equally one-sided report on the Jennings case, in which he failed to make any mention of the code requirements on which the publishers were making their stand...
...wiseacres saw significant strategy in the President's action: no lover of the publishers, he has been increasingly vexed by their mounting criticisms of the New Deal. Rather than give them the slightest justification for bolting NRA. he was leaning over backward to preserve the letter of the Code, thus paying out enough rope for the publishers to hang themselves. The White House apparently expected the Newspaper Industrial Board to deal quickly and fairly with the Jennings case or else hold its peace if the Government takes a hand...