Word: schechters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Supreme Court last week, NIRA at last went to its great trial. For Donald Randall Richberg, it was, indeed, a momentous occasion. As a special assistant to the Attorney General, he appeared in wing collar and cutaway to lead the Federal defending forces against Joseph, Alexander, Martin and Aaron Schechter...
...Brothers Schechter operate the two largest jobbing plants in the $60,000,000-a-year Brooklyn live poultry business. They stoutly refused to let the Blue Eagle roost among their chickens, so the Government indicted them on 19 counts. Two trial courts found the Schechters guilty of violating the fair trade provisions of the poultry code: selling diseased fowl; filing false sales volume and price scale reports; permitting butchers to select the chickens they wanted killed, in spite of the code's insistence on "straight killing." But neither lower court found the Schechters outside the law because they worked...
...Schechter reply, put by Frederick H. Wood, a Government associate in the gold clause cases, was no less orthodox. If the Government could regulate one intrastate business, it could regulate all businesses and, carried to its logical conclusion, the concept would ultimately find Congress in charge of all human activity...
...page Schecnter record failed to bear Mr. Richberg out. Instead of sustaining NRA "right across the board," the Schechter decision barely placed NRA in the money. The Brothers Schechter operate the two largest jobbing plants in the unsavory $60,000,000-a-year Brooklyn poultry industry. Last year they were indicted on 19 counts for violating the Live Poultry Code. Seventeen counts found the Schechters outside the fair trade provisions of the code because they: 1) sold diseased and uninspected chickens; 2) permitted butchers to select the chickens they wanted killed; 3) filed false reports on their sales volume...
Acting on the case last week, the Circuit Court in Manhattan made an important distinction between the Schechters' chickens and their employes. Since the Schechter chickens came from outside New York, the circuit judges found that they constituted merchandise in interstate commerce and were subject to NRA regulation. Upheld, therefore, was the trial court's decision that the Schechters had been guilty of unfair trade practices under the Poultry Code. But a majority of the Circuit Court ruled that the working conditions of employes in the Schechters' Brooklyn plants were no interstate affair and therefore none...