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...many people know it, but this is an epoch-making Valentine Day. It is the last time that one will have the choice of fantastic shapes and sizes. Next year, the dimensions of the cards will be set by the valentine manufacturer's code and there will probably be only four or five standard sizes...
...Coal Association, had addressed the gathering. Never before had the union boasted so many members (360,000), never before had so many delegates (1,700) attended a U. M. W. convention. There was a whole sea of new faces, delegates from areas hitherto un-unionized before the NRA coal code took effect. President Roosevelt, whose recovery program had raised every miner's pay check from 20% to 300%, was God-blessed as the greatest humanitarian since Lincoln...
Bushy-maned President John Llewellyn Lewis made a graceful bow to the "partnership" between Labor, Capital and Government. He told his men that, although he would ask for a 30-hour week (coal code maximum: 40 hr.) and higher pay when new labor contracts are discussed with bituminous operators in Washington Feb. 12, the miners would be "in a mood of cooperation, conciliation and constructive contribution...
...footed up to a grand deficit of $43,724,000. Even so, the Steel directors decided to continue the 50? quarterly preferred payments. The New Deal, so far, has not been an unmixed blessing to the steel industry. "Due to the requirements of the steel code," declared U. S. Steel Chairman Taylor last week, "wages in the fourth quarter . . . averaged an increase of about 24% over the rates prevailing prior [to the code]." Although U. S. Steel was operating at less than one-third of capacity in the last three months, there were 190,000 people on the payroll-about...
...Encouraged by steelmen and not denied by motor makers is a persistent rumor that other automobile companies will take a tip from Henry Ford and buy or build their own steel plants. Steel's biggest customers resent the fact that under the steel code they no longer get discounts on their orders. Last week it was no sooner discovered that General Motors was dickering for an option on Corrigan-McKinney Steel Co., than it was learned that negotiations had been dropped...