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Washington, March 20--The steel code tends to climinate small operators and discriminate against some areas, the Federal Trade Commission reported to Congress today in response to a resolution by Senator Borah, (R) Idaho, asking an investigation of the industry...
...there can be no doubt that the outright partisanship by General Johnson of the cause of the A. F. of L. in his speech to the assembled code authorities last week was a straw that broke, the camel's back. If the Government is to take the side of labor, and determine the method of dues paying and organization, industry is willing: but it wants the Government to supervise the labor unions for their financial affairs and every detail of the work now being done by the local organizers. In fact, Government control of labor unions may be the answer...
...Julep Gums." Having no capital with which to start a gum factory, he arranged to have his product made under contract by Walla-Walla Chewing Gum Co. of Knoxville, Tenn. Almost before he knew what had happened Tom Huston found himself forced in under the Chewing Gum Manufacturers' Code which contains this clause: "No member of the Industry shall guarantee the sale of his product by the purchaser thereof...
...retail outlets have ever called on him to make good his money-back agreement, but that in new territory his salesmen cannot sell without it. It was to stifle just such new competitors, charges Tom Huston, that the big gum-makers inserted the clause in the code. "My hopes of making Julep Chewing Gum a nationally known product from coast to coast are hopes that have been blasted...
...York, March 16--Gen. Hugh S. Johnson, NRA administrator, and members of the auto code authority will confer here tomorrow in an effort to avert the threatening strike of 100,000 men in the industry expected Wednesday...