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...Recovery Administration to put down the labor controversies stirred up by NIRA. Both disputes flunked the National Labor Board because nowhere in the law was that agency, an extra-legal body backed only by the President's prestige, given authority to force settlements in the backwash of NRA code-making. The Ford and coal strikes exemplified the stubborn militancy of Labor to overreach itself, the stubborn militancy of Capital to resist to the limit...
...Ford strike involved wages and hours of some 3,000 unorganized workers in Henry Ford's Chester, Pa. export assembly plant. Though Mr. Ford has not yet signed the automobile code (which binds him just the same) he pays his men a minimum wage (50? per hour) which is 7? higher than the trade agreement requires. But because of the seasonal peaks and valleys of automobile production, Mr. Ford did not have enough work to run his Chester plant more than four days a week. As a result his men earned only $16 per week. They struck...
...Workers by the "captive" soft coal mines of Pennsylvania. These mines are owned and their entire output is used by the great non-union iron and steel companies. Last fortnight U. M. W. won complete recognition from most commercial mine operators in a blanket wage contract under the coal code. Because that contract did not include the "captive" mines of U. S. Steel Corp., Bethlehem Steel and others, some 75,000 Pennsylvania diggers under Insurgent Martin Ryan refused to work in any sort of mine...
Will the Blue Eagle Labor Code make the Course catalogue read: Indic Philology B, Tuesday, Thursday, and (at the pleasure of the government) Saturday...
President James" Lukens McConaughy of Wesleyan University (Middletown, Conn.), expounded a "recovery code" for colleges to his students, with a six-day week and a minimum 40 hr. of work...