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...NRA of some of its worst body squeaks, President Roosevelt last week authorized General Johnson to strike out the price fixing and trade practice provisions in the codes of service industries. Next day General Johnson promptly performed the permitted operation on seven codes: 1) cleaning & dyeing; 2) automobile storage and parking; 3) barbers: 4) bowling and billiards; 5) shoe rebuilding; 6) advertising display installations: 7) advertising distribution. This stripped these codes to the bare bone of wage, hour, child labor, and collective bargaining clauses which service industries must still obey. Local groups may write prices back into their local codes...
...onetime President appeared on the scene-Charles P. Taft II, commissioned by the Department of Labor as mediator in the strike. Minneapolis. Month ago Minnesota's blatant, Radical Governor Olson wrote a letter to Minneapolis' truckmen urging them to unionize to protect their NRA rights. They unionized and struck. Businessmen realized that, if the truckmen won, practically the whole city would go closed shop, because no non-union construction or other business could survive if truckmen refused to make deliveries. Employers were already well organized and had long raised money to fight the strike. Thirty-five thousand construction...
...Swooping down on the dingy tin-roofed villages of Vistica and Puerto Grande last week, Argentine police arrested 27 cattle thieves and discovered an ardent admirer of NRA. Cattle Thief Francisco Atenor Gomez, painfully picking his way through Buenos Aires newspapers, had evolved a plan to up the price of stolen cattle by setting up a rustler's code for six other bands of cattle thieves, pooling stolen cattle in secret corrals until prices rose. At the police station he was only too glad to explain...
...NRA headquarters codification troubles do not vary in direct proportion with the number of units to be codified. Aluminum, which consists of Aluminum Co. of America, still has no code. Neither has the telephone industry. The communications industry-Western Union, Postal Telegraph and other International Telephone & Telegraph units, American Telephone's telegraph business and Radio Corp.-had no code until last fortnight when, after months of wrangling, General Johnson threw the foursome a ready-made one which needed only the President's signature. Last week the telegraph and radio companies and their big customers had a last opportunity...
...Sosthenes Behn was on hand to defend Postal's stand. But Vice President Howard L. Kern, taking a tip from the Senate Banking & Currency Committee, hoisted the red flag of "unfair propaganda." Anyone with half an eye, said he, could see that "the code proposed by NRA was designed to meet the abuses pointed out by Western Union representatives themselves." Though the code would cost Postal $2,767,000 per year in increased wages, the company was willing to subscribe to it in the hope of "eventual benefits...