Word: coding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Homework. The idea behind prohibiting homework in formulating the embroidery code was to prevent manufacturers from sweating wretched women for such appalling wages as 5¢ an hour. Nevertheless, in Manhattan Mrs. Nenette Sabatini and Mrs. Rose Perricone had young children to support, so they applied to the State Industrial Commissioner for permits to work at home. They were denied, and the case came to court. Mrs. Sabatini said she made as much as $15 a week crocheting, Mrs. Perricone said she made $22. Domestic duties prevented them from working in a factory. The judge found that the code prohibition "appears...
Coal & Coke, Next day another New York State Supreme Court Justice, also in Manhattan, saved NRA from a whitewash score for the week by forbidding a coal company to sell fuel below the price set by code authorities...
Villain No. 1 was Samuel Clay Williams, chairman of the new National Industrial Relations Board. Delegate I. M. Ornburn of the Cigar Makers International Union charged that when he was chairman of R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., as well as head of the cigaret code authority. Mr. Williams had used his NRA prestige to delay the code's enactment, to lower the code wage level and to frame the code so that it "deprived the President of the United States of the mandatory power contained in other codes." On this score a resolution was presented asking the President to "reconsider...
...bright spot in NRA's code enforcement week was the case of 4,700 New York Chinese hand laundrymen. Since few of them read English, they were surprised to learn that they were expected to comply with NRA's minimum wage and hour provisions: $6.82 for a 20-hr. week. $12.40 for a 39-hr, week. Most important wage basis in a Chinese laundry is the liberal meal of rice, chop suey and tea served at noon, much relished by the industry's Negro employes. After 15 leading launderers had been summoned for wage violation, Louis Wing, president of Wing...
...York Times: "One thought . . . forces itself to the front of the mind in surveying the rise of a business like that built by Mr. Simon. It would have been impossible if he had been hampered at every step by government regulation and meddlesomeness. What need of imposing a 'code' upon a man like him? He was his own code?always one of honor and humanity...