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...when he has a point to make to the country through its newspapers. President Roosevelt primed a friendly newshawk to ask him about commodity prices at last week's first press conference. He thereupon delivered a 20-min. discourse. Chief points: 1) the Administration, through AAA, HOLC and NRA, is still firmly committed to raising the national price level; 2) the goal will not necessarily be the fabled 1926 index, may aim at pre-War parity between agricultural and industrial prices; 3) wages will have to be upped responsively...
Villain No. 2 was Attorney General Cummings, who, according to .the bellicose Wisconsin Federation, had given organized Labor "the shabbiest treatment accorded to any set of people in recent years." Mr. Cummings was flayed for failing to prosecute NRA violators. "Only a single injunction suit has been brought by Mr. Cummings." said Judge Padway, "involving the Weirton case, and this one has been so badly bungled that it should never have been started...
Villain No. 3, singled out by President Green himself, was that famed friend of Labor, Director Donald Randall Richberg of NRA's new Industrial Emergency Committee. Mr. Green was angry with Mr. Richberg because Mr. Richberg had just announced in Washington that employers would be allowed to bargain collectively with individuals and minority groups among their workers...
Truce. Temporarily, at least, Labor was even inclined to regard Franklin Roosevelt himself with anxiety. Well did the President know that the dockets of lower courts throughout the land were sagging with NRA violation cases, that work was being bootlegged in the U. S. on a scale comparable with whiskey during Prohibition.** For this and other reasons he was unable to agree that A. F. of L.'s 30-hr, week, for which there was growing Congressional sentiment, was operable...
...bright spot in NRA's code enforcement week was the case of 4,700 New York Chinese hand laundrymen. Since few of them read English, they were surprised to learn that they were expected to comply with NRA's minimum wage and hour provisions: $6.82 for a 20-hr. week. $12.40 for a 39-hr, week. Most important wage basis in a Chinese laundry is the liberal meal of rice, chop suey and tea served at noon, much relished by the industry's Negro employes. After 15 leading launderers had been summoned for wage violation, Louis Wing, president of Wing...