Word: coding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...notice that their jobs would terminate June 16. He called his Cabinet together, held another press conference, spent many more hours with Congressional leaders. Meanwhile the U. S. Chamber of Commerce and the National Manufacturers Association were urging all businessmen not to cut wages and lengthen hours, to uphold code standards. A. F. of L.'s William Green warned workers to resist any changes attempted by employers. All denounced the chiseling which "had been begun in many places." NRA ordered defunct code authorities to wire it collect reports of all code infractions. The reports were withheld from the public...
Reports trickled into the Press of wage cuts. A restaurant in Honolulu had put waitresses on a $4 seven-day week. Most news concerned the textile industry, pride of the Blue Eagle, first to take a code. At Lincolnton, N. C. mill hours were upped from 40 to 50 per week, minimum wages also upped from $12 to $16. At Greenville, S. C. the Piedmont Shirt Co. cut wages 25%, upped hours from 36 to 40 hours. At Atlanta 20 piecework shirtwaist makers struck when wages were cut from $1.80 to $1.50 a dozen, hours upped from...
...Declared (8-to-1) that Congress illegally delegated its legislative power in giving the President discretionary authority to forbid the shipment of oil produced in violation of the Oil Code (TIME...
...Newspaper Code Authority warned all publishers to erase all Eagles by June 16, when the Code expires. At the same time the Publishers Code Committee asked its members to keep its personnel in office and in funds to lobby against such measures as the Wagner Labor bill and the Thirty Hour Week bill...
Businessmen talked fast and long last week about salvaging the good features of their respective codes. Trouble with that idea, as with the codes themselves, was the conspicuous lack of agreement on what were good features. What was good to one group was bad to another-if not within that industry, at least to another industry. The Oil Code, largely honored in the breach even before the Supreme Court cracked it open last winter, irritated the big oil companies and pleased some-but not all-little fellows. Actually the passing of the Oil Code will have little effect...