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Last week General Hugh S. Johnson found himself in much the same sort of hot water as other employers of labor who had been badly scalded by NRA's rigid rules on unionism. Industrialists whom the NRAdministrator had browbeaten into accepting collective bargaining were anything but sympathetic...
...tariff, the ceiling of copper prices is self-limited at about 12? per Ib. by the threat of foreign competition. Chairman of the Code Authority is an oldtime copperman, President E. Tappan Stannard of Kennecott, who works side by side with a onetime tool manufacturer, Harry O. King, NRA Divisional Administrator. When the copper market developed into a three-price affair-Blue Eagle, non-Blue Eagle, and regular export copper-President Stannard had to slap a ban on non-Blue Eagle copper which he extended for the second time last week. When scrap producers failed to agree on quotas which...
...youngster who puts in an hour or two after school serving a delivery route in the residential district. But whatever their number and their methods of work, U. S. newsboys were this week's issue in the long drawn-out warfare of the American Newspaper Publishers Association against NRA. When the Press Code was drawn up last winter the publishers haggled over three points: 1) They wanted no possible licensing of newspapers.* 2) They wanted editorial workers getting $35 per week or more classified as "professional men," and hence outside the minimum work week requirements. 3) They wanted...
...opponent of the proposed changes was Publisher Jerome D. Barnum of the Syracuse (N. Y. ) Post-Standard who, like many another publisher, performs extensive social welfare work among his delivery boys. Snapped he: "I shall certainly oppose the modifications at the hearing and refuse to assent to them if NRA seeks to enforce them on publishers. Of course by the specific terms of our code no modification thereof can be made effective against the publisher who refused to accept it." Ready to meet all comers at the hearing was the National Child Labor Committee which argued that any shortage...
...Last week the President's licensing power under NRA automatically lapsed...