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Candidates for the Freshman Debating Council will debate the question, "Resolved: That the NRA should be a permanent part of the American system of government" this evening from 7 to 9 o'clock, to determine the men for the debate with Brown which will be held shortly before Christmas...
...their payrolls 28.3%. At the same time that he forwarded Steel's report to the President, General Johnson included some NRA statistics, gathered from 208 companies. These showed that between June and September the industry had raised its average wages per hour 19.9% (from 52.8? to 63.6?), had decreased the average work week 16.8%. Discouraging spot on the Institute's report came in tabulating production figures, calculated from June 17, at the beginning of the summer boomlet. Since that time the industry's operating schedules had declined from 47% of capacity to 44%. But since...
...insignificant little corporation in Brooklyn last week skyrocketed into national prominence when Hercules Gasoline Filling Stations Inc. was made the target for the first Federal indictment charging violation of a permanent NRA code. The owners were accused of working their employes 18 hours per week longer than the petroleum code allowed. with failure to post gasoline prices...
...competitors who did sign it, proceeded to violate it. ... In order to compete with them and keep our business going we had to work our men the same number of hours that they did. We refuse to be made the goat. This case may bust the whole NRA question wide open...
Last week President Alfred Pritchard Sloan Jr. took the lead in his industry by announcing that prices of General Motors' entire 1934 line would be upped from 10% to 15% because of rising costs of labor and materials under the NRA automobile code. Of equal interest to motorists was his announcement that all GM's new models would feature independent front wheel suspension, which has been used sparingly in Europe for several years. Said Motorman Sloan...