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...stubborn industrialists. Just before midnight, when the President is leaving for Hyde Park, General Johnson dashes for the White House. "Three major codes signed!" he cries. "That's a day's work!' Estimated jobs created: lumber, 115,000; steel, 50,000; oil, 240,800. Aug. 27-The automobile business becomes the fifth major industry to be codified. "My one regret," says General Johnson, "is that Henry Ford did not sign." Aug. 31-Dudley Gates of Chicago, Johnson's right hand man for industry, resigns. Mr. Gates believed in vertical unions, rather than the oldstyle horizontal unions...
...Blue Eagles NRA has issued, only 48 have been revoked. It has fought eight code violators in the courts, has won seven cases. Pending are twelve more. To date 168 codes have been approved. Seventy-five more will be approved by New Year. Man of the Year Johnson believes that he has put 4,000,000 people to work, has upped the national payroll $2,500,000,000 in the past half-year. Last week the President extended his blanket re-employment agreements to May i, but these have lost their importance since 70% of the nation's workers...
...factory hand gets hardly more. But CWA puts jobless men to work at 50? an hour-$3 for a six-hour day of not too arduous labor. Last week in Toledo four metal manufacturers complained that workers whom they were paying between 35? and 40? under an NRA code were deserting to take better-paying CWA jobs. While relief officials were investigating, Georgia's Governor Talmadge charged that CWA was also hiring help away from the farm. He complained that Federal authorities would not listen to his protests. CWAdministrator Hopkins retorted: "All that guy is after is headlines...
Three months ago, as chairman of the Motion Picture Research Council, President Emeritus Abbott Lawrence Lowell of Harvard signed a petition to President Roosevelt asking that the cinema code include restrictions on block booking. President Roosevelt signed the code without such restrictions and appointed Dr. Lowell. Eddie Cantor and Marie Dressier as Government representatives to the Code Authority. Last week Dr. Lowell refused the appointment. His reasons, explained in letters to General Johnson, showed a remarkably sound knowledge of the cinema industry...
...Lowell's first letter complained that the code, instead of checking block booking, gave it "a certain legal sanction." When General Johnson reminded him that the code does permit exhibitors to cancel up to 10% of the blocks of films which they are forced to buy from major producers if they want any films at all, Dr. Lowell wrote back...