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With pride the cotton textile industry points to itself as the biggest single industry in the U. S., because it employs more workers than any other. With equal pride NRA points to it as the first industry to take a code, the first to abolish child labor, cut hours, raise wages. So neither the industry nor the Administration could last week read with equanimity reports that every single employe of the U. S.'s biggest industry would soon be without a job as the result of a "national cotton textile strike," called by the United Textile Workers of America, affiliate...
...industry has thus taken its courage in its hands. It has blocked out a plan of operations on its sector of the industrial front and today, putting that plan into effect, advances as the spearhead of the attack. . . ." Such was the stirring announcement with which the Industry plunged into NRA 13 months...
...Hugh S. Johnson and Donald Richberg, head of the President's executive council, were in a hard hitting bout tonight over the future of NRA...
Good reason had the General for nursing doubts. For weeks members of the New Deal had been saying that it was time for NRA to be reorganized. The President had approved the idea. All Washington felt that the General, his usefulness over, was soon departing. Three days before the happy interview last week the General himself outlined a plan for a new NRA headed not by one man but by a board of which he himself would be a figurehead chairman. When it was announced that the NRAdministrator would take a two-week rest at the seashore, it was prophesied...
...hour at the White House reassured the General. NRA would still be reorganized. The only important change was that he would have a guiding hand in the re-organization and his departure would be postponed probably until after Congress meets in January...