Word: agreement
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from well to consumer. The other group including the representatives of Standard Oils of New Jersey and Indiana, Texas Co., Royal Dutch Shell, Gulf, Sun, Atlantic, favored only that oil should not be sold below cost, opposed complete price fixing. A day's work brought them no nearer agreement. So General Johnson cut the knot, gave oil a code written by Secretary Ickes and James Moffett (who resigned as vice president of Standard Oil of N.J. month ago because he disagreed with President Teagle's policies...
...morning before he lumber code was finished General Johnson got the steel men into a room, kept them there for twelve hours with only a brief intermission for dinner-virtually whipped them into agreement. They came out late at night, glum, shaking their heads grievously. He had beaten down their demand for continuance of open shop.* The code provided a maximum 40-hr. week (extensible to 48 hr. at seasonal peaks); a minimum 40? an hour wage; an eight-hour day effective after Nov. 1 if the industry is operating at 60% or more of capacity; three representatives...
...investor has been lucky. Small Cuban producers, unable to compete with the big corporate plantations, have been ruined on a nationwide scale, driven to suicide and beggary. As the able lawyer representing Cuba's sugar interests, tall, stalwart, snowy-crested Thomas Lincoln Chadbourne put through the International Agreement ("Chadbourne Plan"), running from 1930 to 1935, by which its signatories-Cuba. Java and the European beet sugar bloc (Germany, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Hungary, Belgium, Jugoslavia)-hoped to win a profitable price for sugar by heroic sacrifices in production. Cuba under Tyrant Machado made the greatest sacrifice, cut her production...
Coal Codes. NRA hearings were held in Washington last week on 27 different codes for the bituminous industry. Non-union mine operators from Pennsylvania to Tennessee, who supply 50% of U. S. soft coal, stoutly backed a $4-per-day trade agreement which virtually outlawed United Mine Workers from collective bargaining Operators of union mines in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa and Colorado with about 25% of the country's soft coal production favored a $5-per-day code presented by United Mine Workers. Alabama mine owners took the most reactionary position by refusing to go in under any general code...
...Establishment of a regional sugar control agreement to give Cuba a fairer share of the U. S. market...