Word: guffey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Harper Sibley, President of the United States Chamber of Commerce, for the "Government and Industry" table; Joseph B. Eastman, Federal Coordinator of Railroads, also for the "Government and Industry" table; and Thomas C. Woodard, Peoples Council for the Guffey Coal Administration, for the same table...
Last May the nine Justices of the U. S. Supreme Court sat in judgment on a sick chicken sold by Schechter Bros, of Brooklyn. Their verdict was death for NRA. Last week the same Court sat in judgment on one of the late chicken's eggs, the Guffey Coal...
Despite the unanimous decision of the Court in the Schechter case, the coal bill sponsored by Pennsylvania's Senator Joseph Guffey was ramrodded through Congress for three good reasons: 1) President Roosevelt publicly advised Congressmen to pass it, "however reasonable'' might be their doubts as to its constitutionality; 2) the United Mine Workers of America threatened a strike unless it was enacted; 3) most Northern coal operators favored the law because it promised to fix coal wages, thereby preventing Southern operators from underselling them. Last week before the Supreme Court the lawyers of several Southern coal operators...
...Principal aim of the Guffey Act was to revive the NRA Coal Code. Since that code was not constitutional, Congress had to make certain substantive changes. Instead of telling the NRAdministrator to write whatever code he thought was best for the industry, Congress directed by law that the code should fix wages and hours of miners, should require collective bargaining, should regulate coal prices. To compel the industry to obey the code by penalizing disobedience, a 15% tax on coal production was imposed. However, any producer who operated under the code was to get back...
Other administrative headaches would include the railroads' loss of passenger traffic to the motor car and the bus; the loss of short-haul freight business to the truck; the Railroad Retirement Act of 1935, the Social Security Act and the Guffey Coal Act; and the Interstate Commerce Commission's reduction of passenger fares last fortnight to a 2? a mile maximum on coaches and 3? on Pullmans...