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...months ago the General tried to salve a chronic NRA sore spot by getting President Roosevelt to decree the cancellation of the irksome price-fixing and "fair trade practice" provisions of the codes of service industries: cleaning & dyeing, laundry, automobile storage & parking, etc. Last week three of the affected industries boldly renounced what remained of their codes. In plain-spoken letters to the White House the cleaners and garagemen all gave the same reason: The benefits of a code had been taken away and only the burdens remained...
...wave of buying broke over the copper market fortnight ago. In three consecutive trading days 41,000 tons were sold, equivalent to the output of all U.S. mines for two months at current production. Reason: domestic producers had notified the sales clearing agent of the Copper Code Authority that they were about to raise the price of copper from 8½? to 9? per Ib. Last week as the new price went into effect, sales slumped off considerably. Not in three years had coppermen been able to get 9?. When President Roosevelt took office they could get barely...
...armies crave the quick-burning carbohydrates of candy which their governments did not supply. After the War candy became a $400,000,000 industry, with only 47 others ahead of it in size and importance. Last week the National Confectioners Association, reshuffled by Depression and reunited by an NRA code, met in convention in Manhattan and announced that candy sales for 1934's first four months were 28% better than in 1933. U. S. citizens were again eating an average of a pound of candy apiece every month. Candyman William F. Heide gloated, "The time when people were content...
...hour or two after school serving a delivery route in the residential district. But whatever their number and their methods of work, U. S. newsboys were this week's issue in the long drawn-out warfare of the American Newspaper Publishers Association against NRA. When the Press Code was drawn up last winter the publishers haggled over three points: 1) They wanted no possible licensing of newspapers.* 2) They wanted editorial workers getting $35 per week or more classified as "professional men," and hence outside the minimum work week requirements. 3) They wanted no Child Labor nonsense to interfere...
Last week the A. N. P. A. code committee adopted a resolution against the proposed amendments on the grounds that: 1) newsboys "are not in any sense of the word engaged in Child Labor"; 2 ) the proposals would upset delivery systems and throw needy boys out of work; 3) the badge license idea would cost taxpayers a great sum, might develop into "a legal machine devoid of human kindness, causing hundreds of unnecessary arrests." Backing up A. N. P. A. was the International Circulation Managers Association which met in Manhattan this week just before the hearing. Boldest opponent...