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...little ($10-$11 per week), work them too long (40 hours per week). Even the President of the U. S. last May had pointed a damning finger at them for using children in their mills. Administrator Johnson bluntly suggested that it might be a good thing specifically to outlaw child labor in the cotton code. At first the manufacturers quibbled on the ground that their minimum wage proposal would make child employment uneconomic. But that night they got together in an emergency meeting, voted to put into their code such a clause. Next day at the hearing their spokesman announced...
...Bryn Mawr, Secretary of Labor Perkins predicted the Recovery Act would "outlaw the sweatshop...
...Passed (48-10-20) the House joint resolution to outlaw the gold payment clause in all public and private debt contracts; sent it to the President. ¶ Confirmed (56-10-21) the nomination of Kansas' Guy Tresillian Helvering to be Commissioner of Internal Revenue. He was hotly opposed by Republicans on the ground that as an ex-Congressman he had wangled many a tax case out of the Treasury. Michigan's Couzens denounced him as a man of "shifty eyes and shifty methods." Kansas' Senator Capper declared that, though always opposed to him politically, he thought Appointee...
...House could have a ready-made one forced upon it by the Government. "Big Business," in the form of powerful trade associations, was to be pampered back to economic health while the little independent manufacturer, for whose protection the Anti-Trust laws were first passed, was to become an outlaw. On the surface and in most official explanations voluntary partnerships were called for but deep down in the new law were large penal powers which gave a determined Government the whip hand over the toughest business...
...Comrade Litvinov again showed his desire to cooperate with the enemy, again anticipated an official U. S. move, this time by two years. At a League session to discuss world depression he proposed a pact to outlaw not only physical but economic war. Nub of the matter was an international agreement to refrain from dumping, to batter down all discriminatory tariff walls, and to require the sale of products on home markets at prices no higher than those demanded for the same products abroad. Most observers expect something very like the first two points to emerge from the World Economic...