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...bade him show cause why he should not be barred from trading in all U. S. contract markets. No less important a New Dealer than Secretary of Agriculture Wallace, as titular head of the Grain Futures Administration, was Speculator Cutten's inquisitor. The Government's chief complaint was that Speculator Cutten had misreported or failed to report his long and short positions of 500,000 bu. or more, as the Grain Futures Act requires. He had, said the Government, "caused and procured various grain firms and persons, by and through whom his trades . . . were made, to keep false...
...Another complaint that was loudly voiced was that the Engineering School furnished practically no instruction in aeronautics. Only one half-course, Engineering 58, devotes any of its time to aerodynamics and students feel that the School is woefully deficient in that branch of engineering. Almost every other engineering school in the country, they claim, has extensive instruction in aeronautics...
...addition, the motor makers got a specific promise in answer to their complaint that the A. F. of L. had coerced their workers to join its union: "The Government makes it clear that it favors no particular union. . . . The Government's only duty is to secure absolute and uninfluenced freedom of choice without coercion, restraint or intimidation from any source...
Weirton Steel. For the first time NRA took a complaint against a big firm into court. Attorney General Cummings applied to a Federal district court in Delaware to issue an injunction restraining Weirton Steel Co. from violating Section 7 (a). This merely transferred to court the old fight on whether Weirton Steel had violated the steel code in refusing to recognize the A. F. of L. steel union, forming its own company union, and declining to supply a list of its employes for the National Labor Board to hold a poll on union preference. Promptly the leaders...
...convention in Washington last fortnight both President Roosevelt and General Johnson had much to say about the "little fellow" who found himself and his business painfully pinched by code provisions. On General Johnson's desk last week lay a complaint from a business man in Columbus, Ga. which was typical of the little fellow's troubles. Tom (not Thomas) Huston was asking to be relieved from the operation of the chewing gum code. Tom Huston has not always been a gummaker. He used to be in the peanut business. Last year his gum salesmen spent so much time...