Word: law
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Three industries at one time. Mr. An drews announced, are all he will attempt to tackle at the start. Textiles will be No. 1, cotton garments No. 2, tobacco No. 3. The law requires the Administrator to set up a wage-hour committee for each industry, which will then fix that industry's floor & ceiling. Mr. Andrews had already called in textile operators, textile labor delegates and representatives of the consuming public. Correspondents learned that: 1) Chairman of the textile committee would probably be Vice President Donald Nelson of Sears, Roebuck & Co. (the man whom Franklin Roosevelt tried...
Establishing the Wage-Hour law's constitutionality will be a major assignment of the U. S. Attorney General this fall and winter. He will be ably assisted by the President's famed law team of Tommy Corcoran & Ben Cohen. Administrator Andrews' choice of textiles as the first industry to regulate is really their choice, as the best industry in which to invite the law's test case. Reasons: 1) Textiles constitute a big section of "the nation's No. 1 economic problem" (the South). 2) Wage-hour conditions in the textile industry are notoriously vulnerable...
...left-wing allies, the Communists and Socialists, and secure new right-wing al lies in their place. This time he acted swiftly and directly: he slapped his allies in the face. In a pugnacious nationwide broadcast, he announced flatly that the time had come for France to repeal the law which has been the keystone of the Popular Front: the compulsory 40-hour week. Said...
...forty-hour law must be modified by virtue of national necessity, as well as by reason of the general situation in Eu rope. In no country in the world, except France and Mexico, is it the normal time of work. In no country of the world are factories allowed to go idle for one or two days a week...
...Year Plan. "Land to the Peasants" was one slogan of the Russian Revolution of 1917. It was also the main point of the present Mexican Constitution and of the Mexican Agrarian Law adopted in the same year. In Russia, by the end of 1917 the peasants had already seized most of the land, and by 1934 the Stalin dictatorship had marshaled 90% of the peasantry on collective farms. In Mexico, the tempo has been much slower. Up to 1934, the year in which Lázaro Cárdenas became President, land given to Mexican peons (the previous owners were...