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...automobile industry in particular has reason to suspect the good faith of the NRA. After considerable discussion there was inserted in the code of the motor group a provision to the effect that collective bargaining would not in any way impair the right of the employer to promote or discharge on the basis of merit and efficiency. No sooner had this clause been approved when it was publicly repudiated by the NRA in response to the protests of organized labor. No other industry was later permitted to have a similar clause and for all practical purposes the famous merit clause...
...National Industrial Recovery Act requires all signers of codes--and this is not the NRA speaking but the language of the law itself--to agree to comply with various wage and hour rules and "with other conditions of employment, approved or prescribed by the President," which, of course, means the NRA and its various officials. If, therefore, after weeks or months of discussion a code is written and accepted by an industry and a man goes home thinking his problems are settled, he may wake up some day and find: an executive order completely changing everything agreed upon because...
Recently the NRA has been inserting in addition in a number of codes the following power: "and specifically, but without limitation to the right of the President to cancel or modify his approval of this code, or any conditions imposed by him upon his approval thereof...
...another code drafted by the NRA itself appears the following provision: "subject to such rules and regulations as may be issued by the administrator...
Price fixing and monopoly practices banned by the commission under the anti-trust laws have been revived under the code, the report said...