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...worked his employes more than 40 hr. a week, paid some of 'them less than the 28.5¢ minimum hourly wage required by the Lumber & Timber Products Code. The McDowell County prosecutor went to Circuit Judge Beno F. Howard, asked for an injunction against Miller Killem under the State NRA enforcement law. Judge Howard must have remembered the motto of West Virginia, Montani Semper Liberi (Mountaineers Always Freemen), when he handed down his decision. Maintaining that it was "not the purpose of this decision to interfere with'' NRA's collective bargaining provisions, he nevertheless denied the prosecutor's petition. Grounds...
Coal & Coke, Next day another New York State Supreme Court Justice, also in Manhattan, saved NRA from a whitewash score for the week by forbidding a coal company to sell fuel below the price set by code authorities...
Price-fixing, an NRA provision which liberal and conservative enemies of the organization have united in damning, was the issue in the week's big case...
...Washington, suave Donald Richberg stroked a soothing hand over the troubled brow of Business when he told the National Press Club that NRA was planning a return to the principle of "good old competition" in certain industries. From Boise, Idaho one of NRA's severest critics grumbled approval. "I assume when Richberg says price-fixing should end." said Senator Borah, "that he means it shall end. If so. the importance of his statement cannot well be overestimated. When you put an end to price-fixing, you have cut the jugular vein of monopoly...
...Samuel Clay Williams, chairman of the new National Industrial Relations Board. Delegate I. M. Ornburn of the Cigar Makers International Union charged that when he was chairman of R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., as well as head of the cigaret code authority. Mr. Williams had used his NRA prestige to delay the code's enactment, to lower the code wage level and to frame the code so that it "deprived the President of the United States of the mandatory power contained in other codes." On this score a resolution was presented asking the President to "reconsider" Mr. Williams' appointment...