Word: coding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...knows of no union of household help in the U. S. No effort to cover servants has been made by the NRA. Individual employers are expected to act in patriotic spirit, like Mrs. William Kissam Vanderbilt who last week signed the President's blanket code with sole reference to her domestic staff...
...Consumer Blue Eagles were posted up on the White House doors last week. Once more in his own office. President Roosevelt took his recovery program in hand in an attempt to break the jam on steel, oil. lumber and coal codes. He was told that the NRA campaign was going into its most crucial phase. To him were made confidential reports of the precarious labor situation in the coal fields growing out of last week's bituminous code hearing (see p. 9). Though the Pennsylvania mines were again manned, the temper of the miners was still dangerously explosive...
...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...
...from NRA members. To a Baltimore utility company which claimed NRA exemption on the ground it did no interstate business, the General declared: "The Blue Eagle doesn't know anything about interstate and intrastate commerce. It can't see a State line."* Sternly he warned all NRA code violators: "The time is coming when somebody is going to take one of these Blue Eagles off someone's window and that's going to be a sentence of economic death...
...publisher of a yellow newspaper is to hit him in the pocketbook." Let the police chiefs appoint a committee to meet with other committees of editors, publishers, advertisers, and-to make sure of their ground-a committee of the American Bar Association. Let them draft a code of newspaper conduct in dealing with crime. Then "the yellow press . . . will be revealed for what it is, just as the American Medical Association exposes a quack doctor and the American Bar Association reveals the shyster." "Bing" Bingay, probably the best known newsman in Detroit, knows intimately the ways of the police...