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...last generation might drink champagne when children all over America were crying for milk which they couldn't get. That game is about over now. ... I hail the arrival of a day when power has passed into the hands of the people and we businessmen must obey...
...remaining three cases held the gist of the case: were the steel industry (Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp.), the automobile industry (Fruehauf Trailer Co.) and the clothing industry (Friedman-Harry Marks Clothing Co., Inc.) subject to the Wagner Act, obliged to obey the orders of the Labor Board to restore discharged employes, to refrain from intimidating employes against joining a union...
Thus did John L. Lewis twice last week obey the instinct of years, refuse to violate that unionist taboo which forbids a union man to compromise himself even in the smallest way where a strike is concerned. In his larger relations with rival A. F. of L., however, last week Labor's Lewis smashed tradition in a big, ruthless...
...those parts of Kansas and states of the North Central region where corn is the chief crop, farmers will be told how much corn to plant, get an extra 5% added to their soil-diversion bounty if they obey. If they exceed their planting limit, there will be a deduction for each extra acre. Thus the Department, fearing a surplus which would send corn and hog prices crashing, hopes to bring corn acreage from 1932-33's 59,000,000 and last year's 54-500,000 acres down to some 54,000,000 acres. Reluctant to discuss...
...strongest Relief lobby in the U. S. -the Conference of Mayors-had gone into action. Headed by Mayor LaGuardia of New York, who has among his constituents nearly 10% of the 2,500,000 people on the WPA payrolls and who forbade his police to obey the local WPAdministrator's request to oust sit-down strikers from WPA offices, a delegation of mayors had invaded Washington, demanded continuation of Relief at November levels, offered to lobby a new Relief appropriation through Congress as soon as it meets in January, sent an indignant wireless to Franklin Roosevelt...