Word: coding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hour Week. Fortnight ago the President told the 3.500 members of industry's code authorities that he was opposed to arbitrary flat reduction of the work week for all industry. Yet Congressmen are much inclined to favor a bill for a 30-hour week. If it were passed allowing no exceptions the President would veto it. If it were passed allowing him wide discretion in its application, he might accept...
Last week two critics took President Roosevelt to task for his criticism of critics week before in an address to NRA code authorities (TIME, March 12). At that time the President said that critics who only criticize are unpatriotic, that critics who offer substitute proposals are patriotic...
...enforcement: We have been seeking experience in our first eight months of code making; for that same reason we have been tolerant of certain misunderstandings even when they resulted in evasions of the spirit, if not of the letter of the law. Now we are moving into a period of administration when that which is law must be made certain and the letter and the spirit must be fulfilled. We can not tolerate actions which are clearly monopolistic, which wink at unfair trade practices, which fail to give to labor free choice of their representatives...
...General promised better rules for fixing prices and determining costs; more uniform rules for working hours and wages; more adequate code representation for labor and consumers; stricter enforce ment of code provisions. Did anyone dare to suggest that NRA had not employed as many people as promised? He had promised, roared the General, that the program would make 3,000,000 new jobs and it had. Had NRA failed to increase consumer purchasing power? He had upped annual payrolls by three billion dollars while the cost of living had remained almost stationary. Had NRA been put across by "ballyhoo...
...Therefore we welcome you. We will try to give you every opportunity to pre sent your case. We will record that presentation and give it earnest consideration in connection with the code conference. You will understand that there are rules necessary to orderly procedure that we must ask you to observe. You will also understand from what I have said why we will not receive personal aspersions. Neither will we receive attacks on the law itself because that is not a matter within our control. It should be taken up with Congress. Nor will we entertain at tacks on other...