Word: coding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most important trade code up for a NRA hearing last week was Steel's. Its provision for company unions as a means of collective bargaining between companies and their workers threatened a major deadlock. NRA looked forward fearfully to a knock-down-&-drag-out fight. General Johnson had bluntly hinted to steelmen that they could not qualify the law by such labor clauses. When the hearing opened President Robert Patterson Lament of the Iron & Steel Institute (since leaving Washington as President Hoover's Secretary of Commerce) announced amid great applause that the industry had agreed to knock...
General Johnson's ability to "sock" a balky industry "right on the nose" and get the kind of trade code he wants was demonstrated in Washington earlier in the week. For three days at NRA hearings, U. S. shipbuilders and their employes tussled and fought over a code. The employers would take nothing less than a 40-hour week; the men stood out for 30 hours. At stake was the Navy's vast building program for which first bids were opened last week. With no compromise in sight, General Johnson called in both sides, ordered them to agree...
With the tension considerably eased by this unexpected surrender, Madam Secretary of Labor Perkins mounted the witness stand to fire a volley of criticism into other provisions of Steel's code. She had forearmed herself for this attack by going, in a black dress that would not show soot, right into the mills and blast furnaces at Pittsburgh to talk with employes on work & wages. Now before NRA she was an emphatic objector to Steel's limited concessions to Labor. With all the prestige of the New Deal behind her, she pointed out that the proposed 40-hour...
Meanwhile throughout the land there was a great scraping of pens and scratching of heads over President Roosevelt's temporary blanket code. To 5,000,000 employers postmen delivered 5,000,000 blank copies of this man-to-man "partnership" code for upping wages, reducing working hours, increasing purchasing power faster than prices. Thousands of employers signed the agreement quickly, heedlessly, sprinted to the post office to collect their free allotment of "NRA Member-We Do Our Part" advertising material. To each employer was given one large Blue Eagle placard, two small ones, five large square stickers, ten small...
...knew was far deeper than the reasons given. Mr. Moffett, friend of Franklin Roosevelt since Wartime days, a stanch supporter of his for the presidency and in the New Deal, has urged the Administration to take a hand in the oil industry, force upon it a code with teeth to regulate prices and production. On this point he has been long at odds with Mr. Teagle and Standard's Chairman W. S. Parish (he first submitted his resignation to them early in June). To this he referred last week saying, "My views as to the policies to be pursued...