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About the land last week was circulating an emblem for citizens who do not become "NRA Members-We Do Our Part." It was a black buzzard labelled "Non-member - We don't". Its designer was Adam Cooper Warfel, 42, a mechanical engineer employed in St. Louis by Hartford Accident & Indemnity Co. who draws cartoons and posters for fun.* Engineer Warfel mailed his emblem to Washington and forgot about it. Fortnight ago salt-tongued Recovery Administrator Johnson went to St. Louis, made an NRA speech in which he said...
Restaurateur Komen, weight 130 lb. came out. "So you won't join the NRA?" shrieked Wright, leaping upon him, pummeling his face until the blood ran, tearing one ear loose. Somebody held up an NRA emblem. Wright pushed Komen's face against it, held it there until Komen's gory lips kissed it. The crowd whooped with glee. Wright was jailed. Komen promised to join the NRA Sept...
...continuance of open shop.* The code provided a maximum 40-hr. week (extensible to 48 hr. at seasonal peaks); a minimum 40? an hour wage; an eight-hour day effective after Nov. 1 if the industry is operating at 60% or more of capacity; three representatives of the NRA to see that steel obeys its code. Gloomily accepting these provisions the steelmasters agreed that the code should go into effect for 90 days to determine its effect...
...final conference with the oil men, shouted to newshawks waiting in the hall. "I have the oil and steel codes," then sped to the White House where the President signed both. Half an hour later Franklin Roosevelt was on his way to Hyde Park confident that opposition to NRA had been broken, happy to have jobs provided for 400,000 more men. (Estimated new jobs: lumber 115,000, steel...
...would do well to wait and watch. As Lord MacMillan and his colleagues last week found in the Canadian Northwest, economic radicalism is not dead in Canada. With or without conservative Premier Bennett in power, a Canadian "new deal" may be successfully agitated, with a national recovery act like NRA to speed things...