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...Ford was balking at the NRA code for his industry. President Roosevelt asked Recovery Administrator Johnson why. General Johnson could have replied that Mr. Ford paid better wages (50? an hour) than his competitors under the code (43?) but that he strenuously objected to its collective bargaining clause which might unionize his factories and to its provision permitting the National Automobile Chamber of Commerce (of which Ford is not a member) to pry into his books, unearth trade secrets. Whether he signed or not Mr. Ford was subject to the Code's provisions, could be fined...
...comply with the collective bargaining requirement of the law and at the same time to keep their plants non-union the motor makers got this provision into their approved code: ''Employers in the industry may exercise their right to select, retain or advance employes on the basis of individual merit, without regard to their membership or nonmembership in any organization." Wrathfully organized labor pointed out that "merit" would be made a cloak behind which manufacturers would discharge union workers. NRA's Labor Advisory Board reluctantly accepted the stipulation, warned that it was no precedent. But other...
...work & wages the automobile code was slightly better than the NRA average of 40 hours per week and 40? per hour. It provided a 43?-hour minimum wage in all big-city plants. The average work week was set at 35 hours. Because of the seasonal peaks and valleys of automobile production provision was made that employes might be worked a maximum of 48 hours a week during such periods so long as time during slack periods was scaled down to keep the average. Office help was put on about the same minimum basis as the President...
Still to be heard from was sly old Henry Ford, who had not signed his industry's code, had not given an inkling of what he proposed to do. He had ten days in which to make up his mind whether he would: 1) voluntarily subscribe; 2) be forced in by Presidential license; or 3) go the trade one better in a code...
...When the gangster shoots a schoolboy whom he finds skulking in his bedroom, the schoolboys form a secret society for revenge. Here Director DeMille, more up to date in method than in ideology, stole a few ideas from Nerofilm's M. Whistling bars from "Yankee Doodle" as a code signal, the members of the secret society creep up on Garrett, gag and bind him with adhesive tape while he is having his shoes shined. A high-school girl (Judith Allen) entertains his bodyguard while the boys take Garrett to a deserted factory, try him in a kangaroo court, exact...