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...were having the time of their lives. Burdened with an immense responsibility, faced with the necessity of soon rendering decisions on the constitutionality of AAA processing taxes, the Bankhead Cotton Control Act, TVA (all probably to be argued in December) and later on the constitutionality of the Guffey Coal Act (see col. 3) and the Utilities Act, the Justices began the week by whipping off no less than 21 decisions. None of the decisions affected the New Deal but, with a vigor that belied their age, every one of the nine Justices dissented in from one to five opinions. Four...
...this anti-New Dealer, President Roosevelt appointed handsome, silvery haired Elwood Hamilton, a reliable New Dealer.* Predecessor Dawson shortly argued before Successor Hamilton that the New Deal law requiring prison-made goods to be labeled as such was unconstitutional. Not so, decided Judge Hamilton. Next, Lawyer Dawson attacked the Guffey Coal Act, lineal descendant of the NRA coal code which he, as judge, had declared unconstitutional. Sound as a drum, Judge Hamilton last week called a second strike against his predecessor...
This same coal strike had been called five times, postponed five times since February (TIME, April 8, et seq.). Chief reason given for the postponements was that both sides were waiting for the passage of the Guffey Coal Bill to establish a "little NRA" in the soft coal industry, assure miners good wages and operators good prices. The Guffey Bill had been passed three weeks, and the National Bituminous Coal Commission and the Bituminous Coal Labor Board, which were to settle production and wage questions, had been appointed three days when the strike finally came off this week. When puzzled...
Notable feature of the strike was its good-nature. The operators, with nearly two months' surplus on hand, apparently had decided just to let matters slide until they found out if the Guffey Bill was constitutional. No less imperturbable, the miners and their estimated 1.000,000 dependants figured that they would not lose much 'by going on the relief rolls for a while. ("Certainly our people expect relief," said President John L. Lewis of United Mine Workers.) In this atmosphere the strike had been called when neither side would budge over a wage concession which would have lifted the whole...
...other ardent New Dealers for the job of putting Democrats on the Philadelphia map. Athlete Kelly promptly kicked out the machine Democrats who, by grace of Boss Vare, had for years played piccolo in Philadelphia's political orchestra. Today City Boss Kelly can and has told State Boss Guffey what he would and would not permit. This week he is running for Mayor on the platform of a 5¢ fare (in place of 7½¢ tokens), WPA money to rebuild Philadelphia's slums, sandblasting for the outside of the City Hall, ejection of bums who sleep in its corridors...