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Darrow Criticism: Small producers were not allowed to share in making the code. Large producers make small exhibitors agree to take short films and newsreels in order to get the feature pictures from which most profits are made. Large producers demand a big share of small exhibitors' gross receipts, sometimes 35% for popular pictures, and dictate the days on which pictures shall be shown. The code gives distributors the right to fix admission prices. Many independent theatres cannot get popular pictures until their competitors have largely exhausted such pictures' drawing powers...
Richberg Answer: The code was assented to in writing by 9,039 members of the industry. Twenty-one complaining witnesses were heard by the [Darrow] board, including 15 out of 7,500 theatre operators. In contrast to 14 hours and 20 minutes of "hearings" by the board, NRA spent over 1,200 hours on the drafting of the code, heard 206 witnesses and obtained a code acceptable, not only to the industry, but approved by all the advisory boards of NRA. The board acted solely on the basis of a disorderly mass of unsworn and largely false testimony...
...headquarters codification troubles do not vary in direct proportion with the number of units to be codified. Aluminum, which consists of Aluminum Co. of America, still has no code. Neither has the telephone industry. The communications industry-Western Union, Postal Telegraph and other International Telephone & Telegraph units, American Telephone's telegraph business and Radio Corp.-had no code until last fortnight when, after months of wrangling, General Johnson threw the foursome a ready-made one which needed only the President's signature. Last week the telegraph and radio companies and their big customers had a last opportunity...
...fearing higher rates on the mass of facts & figures which they flash by wire daily. Brokers feared for their leased wire systems; railroads, for their ancient and exclusive contracts with Western Union; newspapers and news services, for their favorable press rates. A delegation of Manhattan messenger boys, afraid that code wages would be too low and code hours too long, went to Washington and were forced to pass the hat for train fare home. But the Telegraph & Cable Code hearings quickly reverted to the old family feud between Postal, which does one-fifth of the U. S. telegraph business...
...President Roy Barton White, an oldtime railroad telegrapher who rose to run Central R.R. of New Jersey, had hung out the first bit of dirty linen by sending telegrams to his big customers, inviting them to protest and declaring that for all intents & purposes the President's Code was Postal's code. Bitterly he lashed the proposed fair practice clauses which minutely regulate leased wires, exclusive contracts and special services. At last week's hearings he thundered: "We strenuously object to injecting in the long-established rate arrangement . . . provisions which we know will add unnecessary and increased...