Word: guffey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Republican Convention this week, hoped for quick adjournment next week by the simple process of putting on ice all legislation which has not yet passed both Houses. Major measures slated for discard under this plan were the Wagner Housing bill, substitute Guffey Coal bill, Copeland Ship Subsidy and Pure Food & Drug bills. By the same principle, at week's end, only remaining "musts" were taxes and Relief. Easy agreement was expected on the Relief (First Deficiency) appropriation bill, which had just gone to conference. Only real threat to adjournment plans was the possibility of a prolonged conference wrangle over...
...been narrow-minded and behind the times, but he was not inhuman, and to many people his argument had a great deal of logic. In the face of this decision such a clear-cut alternative is definitely out of the question. What was forbidden Congress so recently in the Guffey case is now denied the individual states with equal force...
...Your subcommittee of the Ways & Means has pending . . . [the Guffey] bill to stabilize the bituminous coal mining industry. . . . All doubts should be resolved in favor of the bill leaving to the courts, in an orderly fashion, the ultimate question of constitutionality. A decision by the Supreme Court relative to this measure would be helpful as indicating, with increasing clarity, the constitutional limits within which this Government must operate. . . . I hope your committee will not permit doubt as to constitutionality, however reasonable, to block the suggested legislation...
...Guffey Act was to revive the NRA Coal Code. To do so it: 1) imposed a 15% tax on coal production but granted a rebate of all but one-tenth of the tax to producers who abided by the coal code; 2) directed that the code should stipulate minimum wages and hours of labor in the mines; 3) empowered the code to fix minimum and, in some cases, maximum prices for coal...
...Guffey Coal Act is now as completely through as NRA and AAA. Further Federal attempts to regulate industry are seemingly doomed. A dark shadow of doubt is cast on the validity of the National Labor Disputes Act. There may be a serious coal strike this summer...