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...think Section 7a has substantially failed of its original purpose. ... To abandon NRA now would be like burning down your houses to get rid of a few rats in the attic...
When he broke the back of the strike, Jack Neylan all but crippled NIRA's Section 7a in the West. But he sees no inconsistency between that and his oldtime sponsorship of California's Workmen's Compensation Act. To him, in the days of Hiram Johnson, good government meant Progressivism and social reform. But the definition of Progressivism did not include economic reform, and Neylan's Liberalism crystallized then & there. In 1919 he defended Charlotte Anita Whitney, at his own expense, against a charge of criminal syndicalism; but Radicals were not yet important...
Cornelius W. Wickersham describes "The NIRA from the Employers' View point." The article is a discussion of labor relationships under section 7A...
Economics 7a...
...extending the life of NRA to June 16, 1937 was hastily introduced in the Senate by Senator Harrison, who explained that it was merely to serve as a basis for discussion, blanks being left for the amount of fines that NRA violators should pay, etc. It would renew Section 7a without change and would not permit restrictions on production except for special exceptions. Chief change in the proposed law, however, was that it offered a mass of new legal verbiage to bring NRA within the scope of the interstate commerce clause of the Constitution and get around the Constitutional objections...