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Sleepless for 36 hours at a stretch, indefatigable Milo Reno popped up within six days at Minneapolis, St. Paul, Omaha, Des Moines, Chicago and Kankakee to recruit strikers and sympathy. He requested the NRA's approval of his banner: a green eagle clutching a pitchfork with FHA above and "We Are A Part" below. After listening to the President's radio talk to the country, promising higher commodity prices (TIME, Oct. 30) Milo Reno declared...
Having plowed through no less than 60 industrial agreements affecting the work and wages of 11,000,000 people, NRA last week completed its four-month shakedown cruise. Result of the shakedown was a re-organization of NRA into five permanent branches: Extractive Industries (including motors and shipping); Construction & Machinery (including lumber and metal products); Chemicals, Leather & Other Manufactures; Trades. Services, Textiles & Clothing. Each now has its own administrator, who acts as a deputy to General Johnson. General Johnson personally takes over the fifth department: Compliance. Structure of the Compliance Board is based on 26 district officers of the Department...
...revamped NRA expects to get through most of the 200 codes still pending. Most important code now in the mill is that of the construction industry. It is facing determined opposition by labor leaders who contend that as it now stands. the code, by fixing a minimum of 40? an hour for unskilled labor, jeopardizes union wage scales. After the building code is settled, anthracite coal will be tackled...
...corner, cleaning his battered blunderbuss and muttering imprecations about broken campaign pledges, sits little G.O.P., eager for the January fray. Indicative of the changing, wavering attitude of the public is yesterday's Herald-Tribune front page "news-story" which analyzes the disconcerting present and the uncertain future of the NRA, thus laying down a gangplank from which to disembark without incurring the charge of sudden desertion of the ship. On top of all this comes, as we have pointed out, the impending convention of the country's Mad Hatters. Bad as things appear to be now, by January there...
...with the American Federation of Labor. Purpose of the Guild is "to improve the conditions under which newspaper men and women work; to protect their rights of collective action; to raise the standards of journalism, and for mutual help." Its immediate aim is to wedge four points into the NRA newspaper publishers' code: 1) minimum wage; 2) 40-hr., 5-day week; 3) dismissal notice; 4) standard NRA provision for collective bargaining, which publishers want to "interpret...