Word: lumbering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hyde Park to continue his vacation. He again commented on the height of the corn as he drove in the gate, said it had grown considerably during his absence. Like his corn, his Recovery Program was last week rapidly approaching full growth. He had signed the oil, steel and lumber codes, thereby bringing three of the nation's largest basic industries under the Blue Eagle in a single week. He was not surprised to hear that Administrator Johnson hoped to round out the Herculean task of setting U.S. industry on its feet by mid-November. With the cotton...
With the Presidential special standing in Washington's Union Station one evening last week-puffing, impatient to be off with Mr. Roosevelt to Hyde Park- General Johnson in a few hours put across three big deals: wangled codes out of the lumber, steel and oil industries. Thus was a grave deadlock broken, the first major industries (aside from textiles) brought under the code provision of the Recover...
First of the three codes to be pushed through to Presidential signature was lumber. It did not stop with providing a 40-hr, maximum week (extensible to 48 hr. at seasonal peaks) and wages of 40? an hour. It provided that the industry should undertake forest conservation measures (details to be worked out in co-operation with the Administration). Biggest of all it set up a "Lumber Code Authority Inc." which will 1) estimate consumption, work out production quotas; 2) set minimum prices so that no lumber products may be sold below cost. Dr. Wilson Compton, manager of the National...
...morning before he lumber code was finished General Johnson got the steel men into a room, kept them there for twelve hours with only a brief intermission for dinner-virtually whipped them into agreement. They came out late at night, glum, shaking their heads grievously. He had beaten down their demand for continuance of open shop.* The code provided a maximum 40-hr. week (extensible to 48 hr. at seasonal peaks); a minimum 40? an hour wage; an eight-hour day effective after Nov. 1 if the industry is operating at 60% or more of capacity; three representatives...
...Consumer Blue Eagles were posted up on the White House doors last week. Once more in his own office. President Roosevelt took his recovery program in hand in an attempt to break the jam on steel, oil. lumber and coal codes. He was told that the NRA campaign was going into its most crucial phase. To him were made confidential reports of the precarious labor situation in the coal fields growing out of last week's bituminous code hearing (see p. 9). Though the Pennsylvania mines were again manned, the temper of the miners was still dangerously explosive...