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...When the Recovery Act expires next June it should be renewed for one year only on a limited basis. Continuation of codes should be voluntary; minimum wages, maximum hours and prohibition of child labor should be a parf of all codes; Section 7(a) should be amended so as not to force a closed shop on any industry; price fixing should be limited to the prevention of "price demoralization''; no industry not in interstate commerce should be codified: the Government should not require compliance certificates or discriminate against any firm until it is judicially adjudged a code violator...
Price-fixing was written into the Oil Code on the ground that it would help conserve a great natural resource. Hordes of hungry businessmen from other prostrate industries were soon loudly demanding the same thing. Before the battle of the codes was done, NRA was fixing garage rentals, dry-cleaning charges and the price of a shampoo. Out of 677 codes in force today, no less than 510 provide for some measure of price control...
...Administration never really made up its mind on the problem. It approved "cost protection," "loss limitation" and all the other pretty names for price-fixing with serious misgivings. First to go were the service codes. Last week the National Industrial Recovery Board struck price-fixing from a basic industry code-Lumber. The job of policing 1,000,000 different prices in an industry composed of thousands of individual units was too much of a chore...
Southern hardwood lumbermen openly defied NRA to enforce code prices after they were offered a huge order from Fisher Body Corp. (TIME, Sept. 17). In the softwood regions of the Northwest chiseling was the rule. To keep a finger on the chaotic industry, NIRB last week made a point of retaining the Lumber Code's production control...
...Richberg, "Assistant President," had gone to the defense of Publisher Hearst, had asked the Labor Board to reopen the case. Again Chairman Biddle held court, heard what amounted to a rebuke to himself by Mr. Richberg and NRA Counsel Blackwell Smith on "respect, co-operation and support" of NRA Codes. Prime point: The order establishing the Labor Board said that it "may decline" to take jurisdiction if a code provides other means of settling a dispute. In the case of the Newspaper Code, a special Industrial Board was provided to handle such cases as that of Dean Jennings. Hence...