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...their shillelaghs-florid-faced Thomas Francis McMahon swinging the threat of a cotton textile strike and pug-nosed Michael Francis Tighe brandishing what looked dangerously like a steel strike. If either or both landed a good stiff wallop with their clubs. General Johnson's job-making program with NRA would be sent sprawling in the dust of more labor troubles...
...labor leaders had taken Section 7 (a) of the Recovery Act as an invitation to unionize cotton and steel mills. They had made considerable progress, but neither could boast of a closed shop in either industry. Since President Roosevelt averted an automobile strike last March, NRA policy has been: 1) to back labor to the hilt on collective bargaining in general but 2) not to back any one union, A. F. of L., company or independent. The shillelaghs were carried into General Johnson's parlor last week to be used to change this policy and, if possible, line NRA...
...struggle between General Johnson and Unionmaster McMahon was brief, a settlement coming in three days. Mc-Mahon winnings: the appointment of textile labor representatives on 1) the NRA Labor Advisory Board, 2) the Cotton Textile Code Authority, 3) the industry's Industrial Relations Board, which was remodeled and given powers similar to those of the Automobile Labor Board. General Johnson promised that all three of these labor representatives should be picked from the United Textile Workers if the fact was established that the union was the only important cotton textile union and had at least 200,000 bona fide...
From Chicago, Publisher Hearst went on to Washington for his first visit with the man he had helped to put into the White House. Long after luncheon he and President Roosevelt sat talking about NRA. which Mr. Hearst last autumn called "a menace to political rights and constitutional liberties.'' They might also have talked of the Brain Trust, which Hearst papers once called ''infatuates, dogmatists, cheerio pundits." or the cancellation of airmail contracts which Hearst violently opposed. More happily, publisher might have congratulated President on the Stock Exchange Bill, which he warmly favors...
...NRA] is much better than it was. General Johnson seemed to have a very judicious and admirable attitude. ... I have sympathy for NRA and all is right with it. ... Frankly I do not believe in a newspaper guild. ... I like to feel that a newspaper man is like a soldier in war. He should be willing to go out whenever there is a call and willing to work all day and all night on his assignment if it calls...