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...Washington, NRA will go on trial before the U. S. Supreme Court because a smalltime battery manufacturer in York, Pa. could not pay the 40? per hour minimum wage required by his code. No newsreel camera was on the spot when Fred Perkins was visited by the Federal marshal, told he was violating the law, but he and his wife and his workmen will never forget the scene. To York, Pa. and into Fred Perkins' home and battery shop went The March of Time's photoreporters (scriptwriter, director, cameramen). The story was reconstructed and rehearsed just...
...quite a talk with a sub-contractor who gave a little dope on Jim Farley, organized labor and the NRA the other day. This honest man had it right in his simple way. He said that the logical unions were entirely controlled by a small cabal of thieves who blackmailed everybody, including their own members. This isn't five star final material, I know but it simply substantiates an old prejudice of mine to the effect that collective bargaining is all right if honest men are doing the bargaining, but crooked organized labor is a menace to the honest laborer...
...most part Author Johnson confined himself to justifying NRA's creation by a temperate statement of orthodox Roosevelt economic theory, such as any sympathetic professor might have written. Only when he came to answering attacks on NRA price control features and monopolistic tendencies did the General burst into genuine Johnsonese. Excerpt...
...course, price control can be used as a weapon of monopoly. It has frequently been so used, and that use of it was the very reason for the Antitrust Acts themselves. But that was price control downward in an effort to destroy competition. . . . NRA price stabilizations were all for exactly the reverse purpose-to prevent cut-throat and monopolistic price slashing, to maintain small industry, to continue employment, to abolish economic murder...
...There is a school-I had, inaccurately, almost said 'of thought,'-in NRA that has prevailed since I left it which insists that any provision against predatory price slashing is 'economically unsound' and 'unenforceable and 'rendered unnecessary by the wage-fixing rules.' I fear that they have prevailed and that new NRA legislation proposed by the Administration will follow this so-called view. It is a ghastly paradox and I will fight it with all that I have to give. Here we have self-styled reformers echoing the shibboleth of some...