Word: coding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stop this, President Roosevelt last week called in the Press and announced General Johnson's latest retreat: Hereafter businessmen may cut list prices up to 15% in bids for Federal, State or municipal contracts and no code violation will be charged against them, provided they notify the code authority after bids are opened...
...months ago the General tried to salve a chronic NRA sore spot by getting President Roosevelt to decree the cancellation of the irksome price-fixing and "fair trade practice" provisions of the codes of service industries: cleaning & dyeing, laundry, automobile storage & parking, etc. Last week three of the affected industries boldly renounced what remained of their codes. In plain-spoken letters to the White House the cleaners and garagemen all gave the same reason: The benefits of a code had been taken away and only the burdens remained...
...automobile storage men: After six months of frustration, confusion, contradiction and total inaction on the part of the Recovery Administration the Administration's order attempts to wipe out with one stroke of the pen all that is of possible value in the code to the trade, retaining only its burden, the labor provisions. Such action, if legal, must abrogate the entire code and will, in fact if not in theory, abolish the other half as to hours and wages. There is strong and uncontrollable opinion among the complying members of the code that . . . the Administration's announcement practically...
...this bad news NRA received notice from Harriman Hosiery Mills that it would shut down if General Johnson did not restore the Blue Eagle he took away from it last April for failure to obey the hosiery code's labor provisions. For months General Johnson has adjured the public to buy only Blue Eagle goods. His campaign was sufficiently effective for the Harriman mill to claim it could not work without a Blue Eagle, had, in fact, already lost an order for 30,000 doz. pairs of stockings placed by the State of Pennsylvania. NRA did not rejoice over...
Last week the A. N. P. A. code committee adopted a resolution against the proposed amendments on the grounds that: 1) newsboys "are not in any sense of the word engaged in Child Labor"; 2 ) the proposals would upset delivery systems and throw needy boys out of work; 3) the badge license idea would cost taxpayers a great sum, might develop into "a legal machine devoid of human kindness, causing hundreds of unnecessary arrests." Backing up A. N. P. A. was the International Circulation Managers Association which met in Manhattan this week just before the hearing. Boldest opponent...