Word: provisionally
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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*Last week General Johnson admitted that he had let the "merit" provision on labor go into the automobile code "in an unguarded moment," declared he would bar it from all others.
Mr. Ford was balking at the NRA code for his industry. President Roosevelt asked Recovery Administrator Johnson why. General Johnson could have replied that Mr. Ford paid better wages (50? an hour) than his competitors under the code (43?) but that he strenuously objected to its collective bargaining clause which...
To comply with the collective bargaining requirement of the law and at the same time to keep their plants non-union the motor makers got this provision into their approved code: ''Employers in the industry may exercise their right to select, retain or advance employes on the basis...
In work & wages the automobile code was slightly better than the NRA average of 40 hours per week and 40? per hour. It provided a 43?-hour minimum wage in all big-city plants. The average work week was set at 35 hours. Because of the seasonal peaks and valleys...
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...