Word: coding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That the public welcomed his challenge was evident from the fact that the programs of his five forums for complaint (1) employment, 2) prices, 3) trade practices, 4) code administration, 5) oppression of small business) were long in advance completely filled. Only exception to this eagerness to complain was in Forum No. 3 (trade practices). The United States Patriotic Society Inc. ran public notices in the Press saying that it would be glad to represent complainers at the meeting, free of charge. Meantime all code hearings were canceled by NRA for the duration of the battle...
Thus did General Johnson, by deliberately stirring up opposition, make another bid for the public's waning attention. Immediately after this field day he planned more serious business: to get all code authorities together to try to iron out code difficulties and differences. Important question at that meeting will be whether hours of work under codes can be still further reduced to cut into unemployment. Last week the General claimed that the NRA had made 3,000,000 jobs. However, the General admitted that there are now 9,000,000 unemployed to which some 3,000,000 will soon...
...tasks have cost President Roosevelt and General Johnson more time and trouble than the newspaper code. It all began last July when the Publishers' Association grumbled that the Press was not an industry, adaptable to codification. Haggles developed over three points: 1) the publishers, fearful of being "licensed" into silence and out of business, wanted a written-promise on Freedom of the Press; 2) they wanted newshawks and editors getting $35 per week or more exempted from maximum hours as "professional men"; 3) they wanted to continue using newsboys. Finally last fortnight the President signed a newspaper code which...
...publishers on three tender spots, 1) He "requested" big newspapers in big cities to put reporters on a five day, 40 hr. week; 2) he "ordered" a new report on child labor (newsboys); 3) he laughed off the Freedom of Press clause as having "no more place [in the code] than would the recitation of the whole Constitution or the Ten Commandments. . . . The freedom guaranteed by the Constitution is a freedom of expression and that will be scrupulously respected-but it is not freedom to work children, or do business in a fire trap or violate the laws against obscenity...
Publisher Harry Chandler, loyal friend of Herbert Hoover, had this to say in his Los Angeles Times: "As the code applies to the newspaper, it seems to me to be unworkable-not to say an unjustified and unnecessary and dangerous movement to interfere with an institution which was born of the spirit of freedom. ... If the code system is carried to its logical conclusion, the end must inevitably be the handcuffing of the Press...