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...hour week at $12.60. Contracting. Monthly employment was cut from 206 to 150 hours, with minimum wages equaling those paid by State Highway Commissions (29? to 41? per hr.). Subcontractors were required to obey the code. "Bid peddling" was outlawed. President Roosevelt last week issued orders putting the rayon, silk and thread industries under the cotton textile code at their own request. He also gave General Johnson a permanent appointment as Industrial Administrator.† General Johnson fixed his own salary at $6,000 per year. Meanwhile the possibility of a temporary blanket code for all industry hung over Washington...
...ahead of stabilization of currencies, President Roosevelt was under heavy obligation to produce results at home. Well over 500 trade codes were reported in the making. Milliners, sugar men, baby-carriage dealers, jewelers, druggists, furniture retailers, lumbermen, clothing-makers, printers, milk evaporators, cleaners & dyers, waste-material dealers, paper men, silk manufacturers, farm-implement makers, scrap-iron men, tent makers, rabbit furriers, undertakers, oilmen, pretzel bakers & benders, underwear men, restaurateurs, coal men, steel men-all were in the throes of codification...
...Third. At official ceremonies do not wear a silk hat and do wear the simple black shirt of the revolution...
Brokers in linen jackets milled curiously around the four brand new rings of the Commodity Exchange-rubber, silk, hides, metals (copper, silver and tin). They eyed the clock nervously but President Jerome Lewine cut short the fanfare at 10 a. m. sharp, clanged the gong. A mighty roar went up from the silver post. To Broker Edwin Troetchell went the honor of first sale: 25,000 oz. of silver to Broker Clarence Lovatt at 37.75? an ounce...
...friends have worked for years, but, more important, his Commodity Exchange, with its 1,031 members, was being auspiciously launched upon a rising tide of prices which promised to lead on to fortune. Seats on the Commodity Exchange, which for the merger of the old Rubber, Silk, Hides and Metals Exchanges, were valued at $900. have shot...