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¶The index of automobile production, even allowing for a proportional seasonal decline, dropped to 46 although its average for the last quarter was well on the sunny side of 60. ¶Electric power output fell to 1,618,000,000 kilowatt hours compared to 1,663,000,000 last...
The Ford strike involved wages and hours of some 3,000 unorganized workers in Henry Ford's Chester, Pa. export assembly plant. Though Mr. Ford has not yet signed the automobile code (which binds him just the same) he pays his men a minimum wage (50? per hour) which...
John G. McCrory, 73, founder of McCrory Stores Corp. (5?-&-10? chain), resigned as board chairman that he might be free to bid for the bankrupt properties. Farm-born Merchant McCrory, who opened his first store in Scottdale, Pa. in 1882 and who branched until he had peppered the East...
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...
The morning before he lumber code was finished General Johnson got the steel men into a room, kept them there for twelve hours with only a brief intermission for dinner-virtually whipped them into agreement. They came out late at night, glum, shaking their heads grievously. He had beaten down...