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...primed to strike to enforce the President's order. But President Roosevelt was not yet ready to force this issue of his own making to the fighting point. Abruptly he announced a two-week stay of his order, asked the new National Industrial Recovery Board to appoint a three-man committee to investigate and recommend changes...
Under such conditions Washington's polite formula of a three-man board to mediate a strike was not enough last week to avert several funerals in San Francisco. From early May, when 12,000 unionized longshoremen struck on the Pacific Coast, a grim state of siege has prevailed in all Pacific ports north of Los Angeles...
Last week President Roosevelt's three-man labor board to bring peace to the automobile industry settled down to its work in Detroit. Its appointment fortnight ago had served to avert what threatened to be the worst strike under NRA-a strike that would have thrown 200,000 men out of work, closed hundreds of plants, cut production in dozens of other industries, crippled the Midwest and seriously retarded the President's whole recovery program. Now the board's primary job was to untangle the unionization dispute between the motorcar makers and the American Federation of Labor...
...religion such as pretend to personate Jesus Christ or suffer their followers to worship or pay them divine honors . . . shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.-Chapter 235, section 72, Laws of 1898, New Jersey. This law was cited in a report filed last week in Newark by a three-man committee investigating that inexplicable Negro cultist, Major J. "Father" Divine. The committee was appointed last autumn by Judge Richard Hartshorne as a result of disorderly conduct complaints against a noisy meeting of Father Divine's Newark "Kingdom." Judge Hartshorne took no action last week, left the 38-page report...
...major part of whose stocks are stored in Pennsylvania, and National Distillers Products Corp., closed their plants, announced they would make their liquor elsewhere. Other manufacturers tried to ship liquor out of Pennsylvania, were prevented by armed troopers. Meanwhile in Harrisburg, a Pinchot control bill setting up a three-man liquor commission and a system of State liquor stores was passed by the House of Representatives...