Word: coding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...automobile industry needed to be bullyragged into a code because its members had been tied up in knots for weeks on the labor question. As with Steel, their traditional "open shop" policy was threatened by the mandate for collective bargaining in the National Recovery Act. In Detroit General Johnson told them that they were free to bargain individually with their men but they could not legally refuse to bargain with any representatives their men chose to elect, even if their representatives happened to be A. F. of L. agents. Nor could they specifically close their plants to union workers...
...last week as he hopped out of an Army plane at Detroit. Awaiting him at General Motors Building was a deadlocked board of directors of the National Automobile Chamber of Commerce. Two hours later General Johnson marched out of the board room, his pocket bulging with a trade code for the automobile industry which was expected to put 60,000 additional men to work. "That's what I came for and that's what I got." said he. "My one regret is that Henry Ford hasn't signed...
Administrator Johnson flew back to Cleveland, stopped there for some lamb chops and beer. Asked a newshawk: "What will happen to objectors who won't go along with this new code?" Wiping suds from his lips. General Johnson snapped: "They'll get a sock right on the nose...
...very immediately we will have an army, so to speak, more impressive than any of these other armies--and these recover councils, by the way, will resemble an army in size and cosmopolitanism. This nearest army is for the purpose of putting across the president's blanket code. Each city will have a general, a man, and a lieutenant- general, a woman. Each general will name three colonels, and a colonel, apparently, will have under him seven on more majors and seven or more captains--and, of course, the buck privates who do the work. The campaign is all down...
...steel industry had forearmed itself against such an emergency. In its pending trade code it had refused to dally with its labor policy and had carefully detailed plans for company unions. Employes might bargain collectively-but only by electing their own representatives "on the premises of the employer." In case of a deadlock with the management the head of the company was to render "a final decision that shall be just and fair." These labor provisions drew the A. F. of L.'s angry protest for, if approved, they would balk its unionization campaign at the outset. Last week...