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Most notable dividend showing lately has been made by textile companies. At least 13 have resumed, increased or paid extras including Cannon Mills. Celanese, Hathaway Manufacturing, Industrial Rayon, Pepperell, William Whitman...
...creating new jobs for the unemployed. The coal strike hinged directly on the coal code which required the President's direct intervention (see p. 11). In the East 50,000 silk workers went on strike in protest against lumping their trade with cotton and rayon for code purposes...
...hour week at $12.60. Contracting. Monthly employment was cut from 206 to 150 hours, with minimum wages equaling those paid by State Highway Commissions (29? to 41? per hr.). Subcontractors were required to obey the code. "Bid peddling" was outlawed. President Roosevelt last week issued orders putting the rayon, silk and thread industries under the cotton textile code at their own request. He also gave General Johnson a permanent appointment as Industrial Administrator.† General Johnson fixed his own salary at $6,000 per year. Meanwhile the possibility of a temporary blanket code for all industry hung over Washington...
...This he verified by setting a variety of fires in an asbestos-lined room, he reported last week in Industrial & Engineering Chemistry. Woolen and silk clothes, rugs and furnishings produce prussic acid and ammonia as well as carbon monoxide and dioxide. Burning wool also produces toxic hydrogen sulfide. Cotton, rayon, paper, wood and other cellulose produce poisonous concentrations of carbon monoxide and dioxide, and acetic acid which makes smoke acrid and causes coughing...
...beef 2¢ per Ib. Such taxpayers were made eligible to borrow the necessary funds from R. F. C. Processors of farm products for export were to get tax refunds. If the public tried to dodge the tax on cotton, for example, by turning to rayon, silk or linen, the Secretary of Agriculture might place a competitive tax on those substitutes...