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...decreed, effective for the next three months: "The Minister of Economics is empowered to take all measures ... to improve German business or to prevent damage to the nation's economic structure. . . . The measures taken may be contrary to existing law. . . . The Minister of Economics may punish failure to obey his rulings with imprisonment or fines. There is no limit to the size of the fine...
...this bad news NRA received notice from Harriman Hosiery Mills that it would shut down if General Johnson did not restore the Blue Eagle he took away from it last April for failure to obey the hosiery code's labor provisions. For months General Johnson has adjured the public to buy only Blue Eagle goods. His campaign was sufficiently effective for the Harriman mill to claim it could not work without a Blue Eagle, had, in fact, already lost an order for 30,000 doz. pairs of stockings placed by the State of Pennsylvania. NRA did not rejoice over...
...seven codes: 1) cleaning & dyeing; 2) automobile storage and parking; 3) barbers: 4) bowling and billiards; 5) shoe rebuilding; 6) advertising display installations: 7) advertising distribution. This stripped these codes to the bare bone of wage, hour, child labor, and collective bargaining clauses which service industries must still obey. Local groups may write prices back into their local codes provided 85% of their members agree, but no longer will NRA headquarters try to set the price of pressing a pair of pants in Bangor, Dallas and Santa Barbara...
...lost since the NRA began its one-sided handling of the labor problem several months ago. Today the Government of the United States has restored the balance as between employers and employees and the Government is again the umpire, the neutral force that causes both sides to respond and obey...
...named Jake Sbar. The price tag on a newsstand ranges from one thousand to eighteen thousand, and once the cash is passed. Sbar, in connivance with all of the city's circulation managers and the newsstand License Commissioner, sets them up in the proper place. If they refuse to obey his orders, refuse to contribute to his war-chest, Jake tells the circulation managers and no more papers are delivered to that unfortunate...