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Newspaper
Charleston Gazette
Location
Charleston, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1934
Page
13
The millinery industry plans to cut maximum weekly hours to 35 and raise wages by 10 percent under a proposed new code. Public hearings are set for June 4. The current code, approved December 15, extended to June 16 by executive order. 1,500 millinery firms operate under it, employing thousands.
President Roosevelt issued an emergency order permitting home work in certain codes where factory work is limited to incapacitated persons. The Home Work committee report urged relief and the order applies to codes prohibiting home work except for food or allied products, requiring certificates and address disclosure to code authorities. Ernest M. Fisher of the University of Michigan joins the National Association of Estate Dealers as an administrative member of the real estate brokerage code authority.
Washington. President Housevelt issues an executive order granting full job protection to workers who supply information on code violations. The rule bans firing or demotion for testifying, with penalties up to $500 fine or six months imprisonment. Franklin D Roosevelt signs.
Judge Dawson denied Mengal Company’s bid to block minimum wage rates in the shipping container industry. The court upheld higher pay for males by 3 cents and females by 5 cents in Louisville in the Northern area, rejecting claims the differing scale was unconstitutional under the code.
Washington announces free public sessions on the lumber code and administration under the national recovery act. Preliminary meetings run June 4 through 9 in Washington, leading to a four day Chicago convention with code authority members and allied agencies. Concurrently, the National Lumber Manufacturers Association and American Forest Projects Industries, Inc., hold their annual meetings.
Washington code hearings reveal fashion shifts quickly affect women’s wear and hatmakers. A veteran industry chairman notes a Paris revival in August 1981 spurred a derby shaped felt hat and a swift Empress Eugenie style wave. Manufacturers altered velvet hat production as prices fluctuated and demand shifted.
Providence report covers Ed ward Filene, noted Boston merchant, addressing Brown University on a nationwide tour. He mocks calls for a regimented business era and warns recovery requires business to self-regulate and avoid wage-cutting dictation as the old system faltered.
Fragmentary passage discusses American business needing conscious organization to seek maximum profit as a service to mass consumers and mentions a fundamental of the theory, reflecting economic ideas without concrete events or identifiable entities.
President Roosevelt ordered a U.S. tariff commission inquiry into household pottery and tableware imports to determine if they threaten the pottery code, signaling a government review of trade effects on industry.
The National Recovery Administration extended the deadline to July 2 for selecting permanent code authorities in industries whose codes supplement the monstrous code of machinery and allied sectors.
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