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...works to the advantage of big lumber millers. In one case a New England contractor was required to pay mill costs plus a "phantom" rail carrying charge on a 400-mi. haul, although the mill was only 72 mi. away. Same practice was prevalent in the cement industry. Biggest Darrow blast was directed against the retail code. Originally containing specific provisions against "loss-leaders" and unfair advertising of consistently lowered prices, the code was "stealthily" emasculated, said the Darrow Board, between its adoption and final promulgation. Responsible, hinted the report, was the influence of one potent "socially and politically" figure...
...setting off its charges against NRA the Darrow Board had not escaped personal losses. Of the six original Board members, only four were left. John F. Sinclair, New York financial writer, had resigned because the first report was too radical. William Ormonde Thompson, old-time labor mediator and onetime law partner of Clarence Darrow, resigned because the second report was not radical enough. He had expected the Board to flay NRA for its failure to make famed Section 7 (a) the infallible collective bargaining weapon for which it was intended. "Step by step," said he, in a long denunciatory message...
...Darrow Criticism: Small producers were not allowed to share in making the code. Large producers make small exhibitors agree to take short films and newsreels in order to get the feature pictures from which most profits are made. Large producers demand a big share of small exhibitors' gross receipts, sometimes 35% for popular pictures, and dictate the days on which pictures shall be shown. The code gives distributors the right to fix admission prices. Many independent theatres cannot get popular pictures until their competitors have largely exhausted such pictures' drawing powers...
Richberg Answer: The code was assented to in writing by 9,039 members of the industry. Twenty-one complaining witnesses were heard by the [Darrow] board, including 15 out of 7,500 theatre operators. In contrast to 14 hours and 20 minutes of "hearings" by the board, NRA spent over 1,200 hours on the drafting of the code, heard 206 witnesses and obtained a code acceptable, not only to the industry, but approved by all the advisory boards of NRA. The board acted solely on the basis of a disorderly mass of unsworn and largely false testimony...
What the result of this biggest NRA fire and counterfire to date would be, Washington had to wait and see. How the President felt about the Darrow report was quickly demonstrated. The White House disclosed that the Darrow board will soon cease to exist because when the board was created the President. Mr. Darrow and General Johnson agreed that it should finish its work by May 31. This announcement was a surprise to some members of the Board. No surprise was it to most politicians. Since President Roosevelt could not suppress the Darrow report without inviting charges that...