Word: coding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...step last week which won him a fresh armful of bouquets from them- and a shower of brickbats from organized reporters. Over the protest of the American Newspaper Guild, President Roosevelt ordered the National Labor Relations Board to pass the case of Dean Sothern Jennings back to the Newspaper Code Authority's Industrial, Board for final settlement...
...Washington, NRA will go on trial before the U. S. Supreme Court because a smalltime battery manufacturer in York, Pa. could not pay the 40? per hour minimum wage required by his code. No newsreel camera was on the spot when Fred Perkins was visited by the Federal marshal, told he was violating the law, but he and his wife and his workmen will never forget the scene. To York, Pa. and into Fred Perkins' home and battery shop went The March of Time's photoreporters (scriptwriter, director, cameramen). The story was reconstructed and rehearsed just...
...take away the Call-Bulletin's Blue Eagle (TIME, Dec. 24). Instantly the newspaper publishers of the U. S. sprang to arms. Dodging the merits of the Jennings case, the publishers insisted that the Labor Board had no jurisdiction over newspaper employes' complaints; that the Newspaper Code provided a special Industrial Board, composed of four employers' and four employes' representatives to handle such matters. Up to the line of battle the publishers trundled their biggest field gun, when Howard Davis, plump, sleek president of the American Newspaper Publishers Association and chairman of the Code Authority, told...
Such was the situation last week when President Roosevelt stepped in. To Chairman Francis Biddle of the Labor Board he wrote a "hands-off" letter which, at first blush, looked like surrender to the publishers. Acknowledging that a few of the 550 NRA codes contained special provisions for adjudicating labor disputes, the President laid down three principles limiting the Labor Board's activities in such cases: 1) The Labor Board shall refuse to hear any complaint or even review testimony. 2) It may hear complaints that a Code Board is improperly constituted, and submit recommendations to the President...
...meticulous Times and the loudly liberal Post printed Mr. Broun's comments about publishers and the President. Taking to the radio to point out this fact, President Broun delivered an equally one-sided report on the Jennings case, in which he failed to make any mention of the code requirements on which the publishers were making their stand...