Word: coding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Labor was not satisfied last week but it accepted with good grace a Presidential decision rather than embarrass its friend Franklin Roosevelt. The automobile code expired and Labor wanted a public hearing to make a fight against the code's "merit" clause, to strive to get a 30-hour week, higher wages. Manufacturers were adamant in insisting they would renew the code only if such questions were not broached. The President extended the code for three months without a hearing, but said he was going to order a Federal inquiry into the problem of stabilizing automobile employment, an inquiry that...
...once it looked as if the Administration meant business. President Roosevelt, pelted with demands for action, declared that adequate enforcement of the Oil Code was necessary to prevent surpluses accumulating. Having received his orders from Attorney General Cummings. L. R. Martineau Jr., the new special oil prosecutor, darted by plane to the East Texas Field to lead a platoon of Federal agents into the murky forest of 10,000 derricks...
1.Are you in favor of continuing the N.R.A policy of having industrialists govern national policies of business through their code authorities? Russell: Yes, if more effective power is given to consumer Luce: Yes, provided protection can be given small scale industry...
...widespread importance and interest, even if the threat of sympathetic strikers throughout the nation did not draw attention to this latest dispute over recognition of famous section 7a of the NRA. Cleveland union leaders have insisted that the A and P has consistently violated the provision of the Code which provides that the employer shall not "intimidate, coerce, or dismiss employees for joining organizations of their own choosing." On the other hand, the A and P insists that there has been at no time a strike among their own employees, that the present crisis was instituted by outside union...
...demand of section 7a for collective bargaining with labor be satisfied when labor refuses to be collective by dividing into two groups, each group maintaining that it represents all employees and each group insisting that its individual policies be carried out. The entire removal of section 7a from the Code would no doubt help toward solution of future disputes of this kind that may arise as it is now virtually impossible for industry to do collective bargaining with labor...