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Sirs: Now that the NRA bird, eagle or hawk (TIME, July 31) spreads its protective wings over U. S. workers, household servants excepted, many thousands of us (I am not acquainted with the statistics in regard to the number of persons employed in domestic service) shall continue to work from 6:30 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. or later when guests are entertained, often on 24-hour duly when there are children or others who cannot be left alone, with one weekly day off-after the work is done and dinner prepared -for "wages" which range from $15 per week...
...knows of no union of household help in the U. S. No effort to cover servants has been made by the NRA. Individual employers are expected to act in patriotic spirit, like Mrs. William Kissam Vanderbilt who last week signed the President's blanket code with sole reference to her domestic staff...
...Consumer Blue Eagles were posted up on the White House doors last week. Once more in his own office. President Roosevelt took his recovery program in hand in an attempt to break the jam on steel, oil. lumber and coal codes. He was told that the NRA campaign was going into its most crucial phase. To him were made confidential reports of the precarious labor situation in the coal fields growing out of last week's bituminous code hearing (see p. 9). Though the Pennsylvania mines were again manned, the temper of the miners was still dangerously explosive...
...status of newshawks, rewritemen, photographers et al. in relation to the 40-hr, maximum work week remained obscure last week. An assistant in NRA opined they were "professional" men, therefore exempt. Next day General Johnson called that a "slip...
...NRA last week gave preliminary approval to a code adopted by magazine & periodical publishers. The code was drafted by a Periodical Publishers Institute formed in Manhattan to represent 6,800 publications of assorted sizes and hues- most of which are losing money. Prime problem: to gear a standard procedure to all publications, from the Satevepost to the Little Flower Monastery Messenger. Prime provisions (subject to amendment by NRA): 1) The Institute, headed by Stanley R. Latshaw of Butterick Co., "shall establish definite regulations . . . to prevent publication of misleading and/ or untruthful advertising." 2) "Circulation records . . . shall be open for inspection...