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...Hour Week. Fortnight ago the President told the 3.500 members of industry's code authorities that he was opposed to arbitrary flat reduction of the work week for all industry. Yet Congressmen are much inclined to favor a bill for a 30-hour week. If it were passed allowing no exceptions the President would veto it. If it were passed allowing him wide discretion in its application, he might accept...
Last week two critics took President Roosevelt to task for his criticism of critics week before in an address to NRA code authorities (TIME, March 12). At that time the President said that critics who only criticize are unpatriotic, that critics who offer substitute proposals are patriotic...
...Sugar Institute has dwindled rapidly with the rise of the trade association under the NRA to the position of a quasi-public body. The Sugar Institute has not yet been dignified with administrative powers of most other trade associations, for sugar refiners are still drafting a code. Though anti-trust prosecution and the NRA are by no means irreconcilable. Judge Mack made haste to wash his hands of the whole question. Preparing to grant the injunction which the Government will ask. Judge Mack said: "If and when a code shall have been approved for this industry the injunction decree...
...convention in Washington last fortnight both President Roosevelt and General Johnson had much to say about the "little fellow" who found himself and his business painfully pinched by code provisions. On General Johnson's desk last week lay a complaint from a business man in Columbus, Ga. which was typical of the little fellow's troubles. Tom (not Thomas) Huston was asking to be relieved from the operation of the chewing gum code. Tom Huston has not always been a gummaker. He used to be in the peanut business. Last year his gum salesmen spent so much time...
...Therefore we welcome you. We will try to give you every opportunity to pre sent your case. We will record that presentation and give it earnest consideration in connection with the code conference. You will understand that there are rules necessary to orderly procedure that we must ask you to observe. You will also understand from what I have said why we will not receive personal aspersions. Neither will we receive attacks on the law itself because that is not a matter within our control. It should be taken up with Congress. Nor will we entertain at tacks on other...