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Most important trade code up for a NRA hearing last week was Steel's. Its provision for company unions as a means of collective bargaining between companies and their workers threatened a major deadlock. NRA looked forward fearfully to a knock-down-&-drag-out fight. General Johnson had bluntly hinted to steelmen that they could not qualify the law by such labor clauses. When the hearing opened President Robert Patterson Lament of the Iron & Steel Institute (since leaving Washington as President Hoover's Secretary of Commerce) announced amid great applause that the industry had agreed to knock...
...automobile industry needed to be bullyragged into a code because its members had been tied up in knots for weeks on the labor question. As with Steel, their traditional "open shop" policy was threatened by the mandate for collective bargaining in the National Recovery Act. In Detroit General Johnson told them that they were free to bargain individually with their men but they could not legally refuse to bargain with any representatives their men chose to elect, even if their representatives happened to be A. F. of L. agents. Nor could they specifically close their plants to union workers...
General Johnson's ability to "sock" a balky industry "right on the nose" and get the kind of trade code he wants was demonstrated in Washington earlier in the week. For three days at NRA hearings, U. S. shipbuilders and their employes tussled and fought over a code. The employers would take nothing less than a 40-hour week; the men stood out for 30 hours. At stake was the Navy's vast building program for which first bids were opened last week. With no compromise in sight, General Johnson called in both sides, ordered them to agree...
...last week as he hopped out of an Army plane at Detroit. Awaiting him at General Motors Building was a deadlocked board of directors of the National Automobile Chamber of Commerce. Two hours later General Johnson marched out of the board room, his pocket bulging with a trade code for the automobile industry which was expected to put 60,000 additional men to work. "That's what I came for and that's what I got." said he. "My one regret is that Henry Ford hasn't signed...
Administrator Johnson flew back to Cleveland, stopped there for some lamb chops and beer. Asked a newshawk: "What will happen to objectors who won't go along with this new code?" Wiping suds from his lips. General Johnson snapped: "They'll get a sock right on the nose...