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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...
Board's baby was NRA's associate counsel, Blackwell Smith, Manhattan lawyer. Board's oldster was Leon Carroll Marshall, a Johns Hopkins law professor who had served on the National Labor Board and been one of NRA's assistant administrators. President Arthur Dare Whiteside of Dun & Bradstreet had served the Blue Eagle as a division administrator. Sidney Hillman, president of Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, had been on the Labor Advisory Board. From the Consumers Advisory Board came Walton Hale Hamilton, professor of political economy. Economic adviser was Leon Henderson of the Russell Sage Foundation...
...buffer for criticism. Even as he was bowing out of the picture, his enemies-and he had many -took many a resentful parting shot. "It ought to have happened nine months ago!" cried North Dakota's Senator Nye, who had quarreled with the General about NRA hardships on small businessmen. "Military man that he was," grumbled old Clarence Darrow, whose three NRA reports marked the start of the reorganization movement, "he went at it like an Army mule driver and when he reached the end of his rope and he realized that the people were about to rise...
Suddenly emerging from hiding, General Johnson appeared at NRA headquarters, called all hands into the auditorium. Quoting freely from the classics, the Bible and the remount depot, the voluble warrior urged his followers not to resign through "sentimental foolishness," thanked them for their devotion. Said he: "I predicted this end from the very beginning. Red fire at first, dead cats and oblivion at the end." There was not a dry eye in the house, including the General's when he concluded: "Goodby. God bless...
...They have to carry vast inventories which in meat's present upward swirl have proved wonderfully profitable. Employment is at least 110% of normal. Last week, after decorous palaver with employe representatives, the Big Four consented to up wages 8%. Topping an 18% increase at the start of NRA another 10% boost last December, last week's raise put the industry's wage scales above 1929 levels. Little packers throughout the Midwest promptly followed suit...