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Behind all the whooping headlines, NRA's biggest concrete achievement last week was President Roosevelt's signing of the automobile code. It was the fifth major industry to be brought under a permanent trade agreement, which affected some 300,000 factory workers, promised new jobs for some 40,000 more.* The motor code was flown by Army plane from Washington to the President's home at Hyde Park in the lap of Miss Frances ("Robbie") Robinson, pert secretary to Recovery Administrator Johnson. The President mulled over it in his cubby-hole study, talked with General Johnson...
...Said the code: "No employe and no one seeking employment shall be required as a condition of employment to join any company union or to refrain from joining, organizing or assisting a labor organization of his own choosing...
...Manhattan harbor the Rex, decked with code flags, received flag and siren salutes from liners, ferryboats and tugs, reached her pier amid frenzied cheering. After sounding the Rex's great whistle one last time Captain Tarabotto rushed into his cabin, "I cried like a child!" he said afterward. "I wept for my beloved dead mother that I could not send her news of this great...
Last week in Washington the American Newspaper Publishers' Association and the Blue Eagle came to final terms. A. N. P. A.'s President Howard Davis, anxious to end four weeks of wrangling, submitted a "temporary" code by which publishers could officially receive their eagles, got it approved by Administrator Johnson pending a hearing. It stipulated that publishers would not be bound by any requirements which might impair the Freedom of the Press, thus quieting a controversy raised by newspapermen who feared the licensing powers of NRA. It included (but left for future discussion) settlement of a second controversial...
...condition of employment. Meanwhile staff writers of eight Philadelphia and Camden newspapers, not at all pleased with being classed as "professionals," drew up a list of objections, appointed Andrew McClean Parker, star reporter for David Stern's Philadelphia Record, to present their demands in Washington. They wanted the code to fix a 40-hr. week (as Scripps-Howard and Hearst voluntarily did fortnight ago) consisting of five 8-hour days, with no deduction in pay, and to guarantee that publishers would not seek to reduce wages by paying their reporters on a space-rate basis. Last week in Cleveland...