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...when the Recovery Act was signed, Man of the Year Johnson's scowl his broad mouth and furrowed brow his pithy epithets, the daily state of his health and temper, made acres of newspictures, miles of news copy every 24 hours. He was not the Administrator of NRA He was NRA. In plotting their common course through the last six months of 1933, future historians will mark well these dates: July 9-The cotton textile code is signed, providing a 40-hr. week, $12 minimum weekly wages, abolishing child labor -the first and still the most satisfactory trade agreement...
...Johnson warns the A. F. of L. convention: "The plain, stark truth is that you cannot tolerate the strike. . . . Public confidence will turn against you!" First crackdown, on a Gary, Ind. roadhouse proprietor, whose Blue Eagle is recalled. Oct. 12-Weirton Steel strike starts. Oct. 25-Administrator Johnson announces NRA's reorganization into four industrial divisions. A fifth division, compliance, he personally takes in charge. Nov. 17-Steel, pointing to a 32.1% increase in wages, a 28.3% increase in payroll, announces it is "satisfied" with its tentative code, renews it for six months. Dec. 11-Some 150 dry cleaners...
...Blue Eagles NRA has issued, only 48 have been revoked. It has fought eight code violators in the courts, has won seven cases. Pending are twelve more. To date 168 codes have been approved. Seventy-five more will be approved by New Year. Man of the Year Johnson believes that he has put 4,000,000 people to work, has upped the national payroll $2,500,000,000 in the past half-year. Last week the President extended his blanket re-employment agreements to May i, but these have lost their importance since 70% of the nation's workers...
Almost as excited as their employers over an NRA code, newspaper workers have been busy forming local guilds since last August. Last week delegates from 30 guilds, proxies from 43 more, met in Washington to draw up a constitution and elect officers for the American Newspaper Guild...
...Italy last summer from the Dictator's press bureau whose head is now his handsome son-in-law. Count Galeazzo Ciano. To a Fascist the orders would seem merely right & proper. To U. S. newspaperdom, resentful of even the slightest shadow of encroachment upon its freedom by the NRA, they seemed the acme of outrageous despotism...