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...such confidence exists today, so far as the employers are concerned. It is difficult, therefore, for the Roosevelt Administration to propose a board or a commission, as used to be the formula for saving the country from the cost of a big strike. The reason is that the NRA, influenced as it has been by the chieftains of the American Federation of Labor, has weakened Mr. Roosevelt's position as a mediator and deprived him almost entirely of the influence he would have had under other circumstances...
...automobile industry in particular has reason to suspect the good faith of the NRA. After considerable discussion there was inserted in the code of the motor group a provision to the effect that collective bargaining would not in any way impair the right of the employer to promote or discharge on the basis of merit and efficiency. No sooner had this clause been approved when it was publicly repudiated by the NRA in response to the protests of organized labor. No other industry was later permitted to have a similar clause and for all practical purposes the famous merit clause...
...hand of the Government were to come down on labor unions as harshly as on employers and both sides really were prepared to believe in the mediation of a Governmental body, there would be an early peace. But it is unfortunately true that the NRA handling of the labor question has merely piled up troubles for President Roosevelt, so that now he is being compelled to take the responsibility for what happens...
...another code drafted by the NRA itself appears the following provision: "subject to such rules and regulations as may be issued by the administrator...
...legal staff of the NRA does not give written opinions as to what all these vague clauses mean but usually says it is a good thing to have them in the codes. Business men are left bewildered and do not know from one day to another what the legal position is unless they go to the courts. Most of them dislike to do this because withdrawal of the Blue Eagle may follow any action in opposition to NRA rules or policies...