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Ground for this charge is that David Lasser lately has preferred quiet negotiation to violent demonstration. In the Alliance's executive board's report at Cleveland, President Lasser and his 25 colleagues claimed credit for: a raise in Southern relief minima from $21 to $26 per month; sufficient Federal relief funds to care for the present peak of 3,102,000 WPAsters (see col. 1); a growing respect for the Alliance in Congress. David Lasser's next demands on Harry Hopkins and Congress will be a 20% increase in WPA wages, to bring them up to local...
...Relaunched its stalled drive to establish minimum coal prices. Last December the Bituminous Coal Commission established a set of minima, but after coalmen brought suit, charging the Commission's methods were too dictatorial, these minima were shelved, B. C. C. Chairman Charles Franklin Hosford Jr. resigned and there was a general collapse of the coal price structure (TIME, Dec. 27, et seq.). Since then the Commission has wearily begun all over again, this time under the guidance of Percy Tetlow. Last week, with data for new minima almost complete and with Sunshine Anthracite Coal Co. of Arkansas filing...
Washington has been expecting Mr. Hosford's exit ever since his commission was forced to drop its entire schedule of minima when courts found they had been prepared without requisite public hearings (TIME, Feb. 21, et seq.). However, Franklin Roosevelt last week asked Chairman Hosford to remain on duty until April 30, thus provoked an uproar. Gloating over Mr. Hosford's downfall, the minority group in the commission, which has long opposed him, called him into executive session and asked him to get out of his office at once. He did so. John L. Lewis and Senator Joseph...
...erred on the side of being too Napoleonic. The Association of American Railroads, whose members burn 22% of U. S. soft coal, got an injunction three weeks ago against the commission's prices for railroad coal. The grounds: the commission had not held public hearings before fixing the minima. The city of Cleveland and Associated Industries of New York then obtained other injunctions on similar grounds. So last week the unhappy commission revoked all 30,000 minima, set out to do its work over according to the letter...
Coal prices to railroads which buy in bulk have always been substantially lower than prices to home owners and other small consumers and a prime conviction of the Coal Commission is that rebate practices have favored industry and railroads at the expense of small consumers. Therefore, in setting up minima, the Commission arbitrarily raised the price of railroad coal to a level nearer that for small consumers. The A. A. R. protested through John Carson, consumers' counsel, whose job was specially created by the Guffey-Vinson Act to protect the consumers' interests. But the B. C. C. refused...