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Wages of about 25% of the 40,000 Ford factory employes were last week scaled up from a $4 per day minimum to $4.80. Outsiders thought the increase was Mr. Ford's first move to go his industry's code one better. Insiders declared it was all part of an old wage-upping program...
Next day Cleveland's Frank Taplin, famed union mine operator who wants a U. M. W. code, called on Administrator Johnson, declared: "General, you're letting that gang of non-union Appalachian operators make a sucker out of you." Rapped back General Johnson: "You wouldn't think so if you knew what I told them yesterday...
...example, that nothing but the Ohio River separated Western Kentucky's $3.84 per day scale and Illinois' $5. Having listened to such talk for six weeks, General Johnson was unmoved. With the law and the President behind him, he was supremely confident of riveting a coal code on the industry this week...
...Last week General Johnson admitted that he had let the "merit" provision on labor go into the automobile code "in an unguarded moment," declared he would bar it from all others...
...Liaison. Dr. Zook would gear the Office of Education to be a powerful liaison service between the schools and the new agencies of the Government. This month the Office's School Life (paid circulation 10,000-largest of any Government organ) describes for teachers the "Children's Code" (child labor ban), tells how school districts may apply for Public Works funds for building. School Life asks: "Can you name the ten new Federal agencies whose long names have shrunk to initial letters? Do you know the purpose of each of these ten weapons