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...very existence." On one point, however, the industry was in perfect accord last week: Federal regulation was a colossal fizzle. The overwhelming majority of the industry was ready to cooperate with Administrator Ickes in the suppressing of the festering hot oil racket. Yet after a year under the code and despite constant thunder from the Department of the Interior, the Department of Justice and the Treasury, hot oil flowed freer than ever. The sole landmark in the oil badlands was the fact that the price of crude was still $1 per bbl. And by last week it was no longer...
...last blow to the oil industry's faith in Federal regulation came last fortnight when Government prosecutors suddenly withdrew a test case which had been carried to the U. S. Supreme Court. The reason given was a '"technicality": the clause in every other copy of the Oil Code which made a violation of a State production quota a violation of the Code-the clause on which the whole case hinged - was found to be missing from the original text signed by the President. New oil legislation will probably be presented to the next Congress...
Villain No. 1 was Samuel Clay Williams, chairman of the new National Industrial Relations Board. Delegate I. M. Ornburn of the Cigar Makers International Union charged that when he was chairman of R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., as well as head of the cigaret code authority. Mr. Williams had used his NRA prestige to delay the code's enactment, to lower the code wage level and to frame the code so that it "deprived the President of the United States of the mandatory power contained in other codes." On this score a resolution was presented asking the President to "reconsider...
...bright spot in NRA's code enforcement week was the case of 4,700 New York Chinese hand laundrymen. Since few of them read English, they were surprised to learn that they were expected to comply with NRA's minimum wage and hour provisions: $6.82 for a 20-hr. week. $12.40 for a 39-hr, week. Most important wage basis in a Chinese laundry is the liberal meal of rice, chop suey and tea served at noon, much relished by the industry's Negro employes. After 15 leading launderers had been summoned for wage violation, Louis Wing, president of Wing...
...York Times: "One thought . . . forces itself to the front of the mind in surveying the rise of a business like that built by Mr. Simon. It would have been impossible if he had been hampered at every step by government regulation and meddlesomeness. What need of imposing a 'code' upon a man like him? He was his own code?always one of honor and humanity...