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...when NRA codes call for 48-hour, 40-hour, and even shorter working weeks, when only two industries out of 400 under NRA codes have as high as a 54-hour week, special-duty nurses ask that their week be reduced from 84 to 56 hours. Traditions of self-sacrifice, conservatism toward change, stand in their way. Yet patients declare they get better service from the nurse who has shorter hours; doctors and hospital authorities are pleased once the change has gone into effect. Results in spreading work are gratifying. Not only is the 24-hour period divided among three...
...plant in wartime, guards stood watch before the locked doors of the printing office at the Department of Commerce for 18 hours one day last week. Behind the doors political dynamite was in manufacture, the long-awaited report by Clarence Darrow and his special board on the operations of NRA as they affected the small industrialist and businessman was being mimeographed. Also being mimeographed under guard were the dissenting report of John F. Sinclair of Manhattan, newspaper financial columnist and member of the Darrow board, and the caustic retort of General Johnson...
Although Mr. Darrow must have pleased worried Monday morning newspaper editors yesterday, his effect on Mr. Johnson's digestion was evidently not quite so satisfactory. His attack on the NRA can satisfy neither its most prominent critics nor its most prominent supporters. In short it has more or less the effect of a Parkhurst sermon in uniting Republican boss Platt and Tammany boss Croker...
...NRA has been the outstanding measure which the new administration has proposed. The codification of big industries such as iron and coal is wholly commendable but undoubtedly the difficulties which have arisen from the collective bargaining clause have caused deviations from the intended course. The wrong ideas which were incorporated in haste now stand out more clearly. Honest constructive criticism which will separate the wheat from the chaff is needed to set the NRA buck on its course. No thoughtless and prejudiced bombardment can help...
...benefit from Mr. Darrow's findings lies in the fact that they have brought the problems of the NRA before the country in a provocative fashion. Unfortunately, he has done it in such a way as to discount his revelations immediately. Although Mr. Darrow has obviously gone beyond his province, it is difficult to realize why Mr. Roosevelt appointed him. In short, he has gone a long way to destroy helpful criticism in its effectiveness...