Word: actes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Carter Coal Co. of Coalwood, W. Va. is pleased with itself because it brought the suit which broke the original Guffey Coal Act in the Supreme Court. Carter Coal Co. is now out to duplicate this feat with the Guffey-Vinson Coal Act. This Act set up a seven-man national Bituminous Coal Commission in Washington, with the major purpose of creating minimum prices for soft coal. In a city where frustrated bickering is a fine art, the Bituminous Coal Commission set a new high before it finally produced its first set of minima two months ago (TIME...
...railroads at the expense of small consumers. Therefore, in setting up minima, the Commission arbitrarily raised the price of railroad coal to a level nearer that for small consumers. The A. A. R. protested through John Carson, consumers' counsel, whose job was specially created by the Guffey-Vinson Act to protect the consumers' interests. But the B. C. C. refused to reconsider its action. The A. A. R.'s success in court last week led many another coal buyer to bring similar petitions and it looked as if the whole minimum price schedule would have...
...years ago the Federal Trade Commission ordered Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. to stop selling its tires to Sears, Roebuck & Co. at net prices lower than those accorded to other purchasers-a practice which had enabled Sears to undersell its competitors. When the Robinson-Patman Anti-Price Discrimination Act presently was passed, Goodyear abandoned the practice. The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals dismissed the F. T. C. order on the ground that the controversy no longer existed...
...October the President appointed his son, James Roosevelt, to act as (1 contact man between himself and the heads of the Administrative agencies, 2 radio commissioner for Texas, 3 special investigator to prove that big business caused the stock market break, 4 special mediator in Labor disputes involving the rail industry, 5 U. S. Ambassador-at-Large...
...housing message to Congress the President asked organized labor to cooperate by (1 abandoning the closed shop principle until prosperity returns, 2 not invoking the Wagner act in every case of suspected violation, 3 settling its differences and merging into a single huge organization, 4 accepting lower hourly wages in return for a guaranteed annual income, 5 abandoning for the time being their stand in refusing to work with building materials produced in non-union shops...