Word: coding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Recovery Administration to put down the labor controversies stirred up by NIRA. Both disputes flunked the National Labor Board because nowhere in the law was that agency, an extra-legal body backed only by the President's prestige, given authority to force settlements in the backwash of NRA code-making. The Ford and coal strikes exemplified the stubborn militancy of Labor to overreach itself, the stubborn militancy of Capital to resist to the limit...
Will the Blue Eagle Labor Code make the Course catalogue read: Indic Philology B, Tuesday, Thursday, and (at the pleasure of the government) Saturday...
...would never sign another agreement with United Mine Workers. Before him on the table now lay such an agreement-a fat document providing for the unionization of all the soft coal mines of Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia, Virginia, Maryland, Tennessee, part of Kentucky.- Offshoot of the NRA coal code, the agreement prescribed conditions of labor for some 314,000 diggers in hitherto non-union mines. It gave United Mine Workers their own checkweightmen, their own grievance committees, freed them from the necessity of living in company houses, trading at company stores, opened new jobs now held by some...
...Undoubtedly he, a hidebound Republican, could never have achieved this success if it had not been for a Democratic President whose New Deal had turned Industry and Labor topsy-turvy. But his foresight and energy in organizing coal miners under NRA, his ironhanded persistence in negotiating a union coal code with non-union operators, marked him as Labor's man-of-the-hour. A ragged broken band were United Mine Workers before March 4. They claimed 300,000 members but of these probably less than half paid dues. From field after field Leader Lewis' organizers had been kicked...
President James" Lukens McConaughy of Wesleyan University (Middletown, Conn.), expounded a "recovery code" for colleges to his students, with a six-day week and a minimum 40 hr. of work...