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Anyone failing to sign the Consumer's NRA agreement has passed up the opportunity of receiving a fairly accurate barometer. Our 4¼x5 in. pledge starts to curl at the bottom when a storm threatens; curls decidedly when it starts, and flattens out when the moisture has left...
President Green's chief grievance against NRA was that the work-week in all its codes largely exceeded the A. F. of L.'s recommendation of 30 hours...
...American Federation of Labor, assembling in Washington last week for its most jubilant convention in years. President William Green triumphantly announced that NRA had added 1,300,000 new members since June, that the A. F. of L. rolls were now up to about 4,000,000, or within 50,000 of their Wartime (alltime) high. Leader Green's next goal was 10,000,000 members, ultimately 25,000,000, "which will bring the majority of Americans genuinely and actually within the trade union family...
...National Recovery Administration to put down the labor controversies stirred up by NIRA. Both disputes flunked the National Labor Board because nowhere in the law was that agency, an extra-legal body backed only by the President's prestige, given authority to force settlements in the backwash of NRA code-making. The Ford and coal strikes exemplified the stubborn militancy of Labor to overreach itself, the stubborn militancy of Capital to resist to the limit...
Harvard is certainly not in this class. Very few of its employees work under conditions beyond the pale of NRA standards. This has led some people to say that a slight rise in costs would be well worth risking for the sake of making a patriotic gesture. But if Harvard is at one end of the ladder, at the other end are such colleges as Piedmont, whose altruistic faculty serves enlightenment to the Appalachian hill-billies in return for potatoes, pumpkins, and watermelons. It would be a gesture costly to the cause of education if Harvard were to arouse prejudice...