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...President Roosevelt today ordered a 36-hour week in the cotton garment manufacturing industry and pledged speedy enforcement of all NRA codes in the future...
...signing the executive order reducing hours from 40 to 36 in the cotton garment industry effective Dec. 1, the chief executive specified that weekly wages be maintained at their present level...
Last August, President Roosevelt ordered the cotton garment industry to down working hours from 40 to 36 per week, up wages 10%, beginning Oct. 1. Protesting that they could not afford the change, manufacturers hotly threatened to shut down rather than obey what amounted to a unique White House command. Last week, with the order's effective date only four days off, shirtmakers announced definite plans to shut down, throw out 25,000 workers, whereas 50,000 cotton garment workers were primed to strike to enforce the President's order. But President Roosevelt was not yet ready...
Thus the "national strike of textile workers" remained a question mark. Last week President Roosevelt ordered NRA to cut the hours of cotton garment workers (not to be confused with cotton textile workers) from 40 to 36 per week and grant a wage increase of 10 to 11% to offset the shorter hours. United Textile Workers talked of winning a similar cut from 40 to 30 hours without reduction in pay, but few people believed that NRA would dare impose such an extra burden on the cotton textile industry. Much of the industry itself did not even care...
...week closed, garment executives met in Manhattan, resolved that they "could not accept or acquiesce in the President's demands," called them "unjustifiable, unwarranted, burdensome and inequable." From the violence of their reaction, observers guessed that the president would not back up the textile workers in their designs for shorter hours...