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Last week two critics took President Roosevelt to task for his criticism of critics week before in an address to NRA code authorities (TIME, March 12). At that time the President said that critics who only criticize are unpatriotic, that critics who offer substitute proposals are patriotic...
...insist they still make 4 is not 'helpful.' That is 'inaction'; that is standing still in the face of an emergency." Second critic was William Randolph Hearst, who in a radio broadcast from Los Angeles, after praising the President's intentions, condemned NRA practices by parable. Said he: "Indeed, the plight of business has been not unlike that of the young woman in the comedy act of Savoy and Brennan...
...front cover) Prime and permanent solution for unemployment, in Washington's eyes, is NRA. Principal threat to that solution is that employers will not hire more men at higher wages. Last week General Johnson was busy with industry trying to work that threat out of the recovery picture (see p. 13). Second most important threat to NRA is that employes may decline to work under existing terms. Last week thousands of them were threatening that very thing because they wanted what General Johnson was trying to get them- shorter hours, higher pay. Moreover, the threat was so aimed that...
...right of any employe or minority group of employes to bargain independently of the majority. In Senator Wagner's eyes this gave employers a chance to play off one set of employes against another. Fortnight ago. just as the Labor Board was being cut loose from NRA. this question came to a head in a labor dispute involving the Denver Tramway Corp. Of its 714 employes, 353 (a plurality) voted to be represented by the Amalgamated Association of Street & Electric Railway Employes. 325 voted for a company union and 36 did not vote. Senator Wagner got the Labor Board...
...from organizing its plants. The Regional Labor Board ordered Budd to take back the strikers and hold an election. Budd refused and refused again when the National Labor Board issued a similar order. Then an election was held in the plant and a company union set up. The NRA Compliance Board finally ordered another vote on: i) a modified com-pany union plan, or 2) joining the A. F. of L. union. The election, set for last week, was postponed on NRA orders to allow General Johnson to decide whether some 800 ousted strikers should be permitted to present credentials...