the error of their ways when violating code provisions, such complaints
were adjusted to the satisfaction of all.,,

CODE PROVISIONS '

 A great mistake was mpde in the order awproving this code, herein
it was provided the Cd e Aathcritv should resent to the Administrator
a definition oi the teri'd "semi-skilled" employee. Apart from the impo
sibility of this determination it leEd to constant trouble between.laboi
and employer,.

 Parrgraph 1 of the definitions was not as clear and as oomprehensi.
as it should hrve been. Ibis, of course, was largely the fault of
industry itself.

 Wage and hour provisions vere, to e large degree, satisfactory
except for Section 2, Article IV, r1hich wvs stayed under the order
approving the code.

 In so far as trade practice rr'visions were concerned I think it
was useless to include, as r"Pa t,-e i this and many other codes,
provisions respectinri ret;W1n '.,i P-c? .- q r.d commercial bribery. Such aret
almost impossible of enforc--..rcnt .rce tnt.y cannot be properly checked.

 A "ell-:r.sidered, thoughtful a-tttmot was trde with respect to thet
homework uroolem, I d'., n.t need t. 3 enlFr:(e upon the great difficulties.
surrounding this particular :uestiono Ho',-ver, the intelligence of
the Code Directorate was bro 'ht to be-r in such a manner that definite.
progress vas bqinE; irde torarc the 'i._.in-ion oi some of the most gla
evils, underpayment pf labor being the most notable, "ily own opinion i.
that this subject can best be apv'otic'id through the agency of various
women's organizations oi the coruntr. Ic .ring toward the time when the,
will insist that ell sources of supp-y r:n-:k ,goods to show their origin.-'
check such to determine mill conditl.,ns., Of course, to carry this to i
successful conclusion you "ou.d need an -et of Congress or oi the vari
state legislatures providing :or thi 1' beI .ng o1 all merchandise. I
don't mean thpt such labels -ould o. necessity carry trade names, but
have identification marks that tuoulJ "nvke easy the disclosures of the
point of origin. Marking is at present required uron all imported goo
and I see no reason rhy it should not be upon articles of domestic
manufacture..

LABOR

 During the last t'-o m.-nths of 1934 nnd the first three or four m
of 1935 a change begpn to take place in the complexion of the labor un
operating in this industry. Aporrentl-, trouble had been brewinr in ti
union for a considerEble period of time pnd since the general strike W|
pretty much of a stnlernate, if not P tutpl loss, the internal fight a
out into the open resulting in a ccmrlpte over-throw of the old union
management. I was informed that tne con.iunists ha6 definitely got intGl",:
the saddle end this made the situation as between labor and industry BaO
difficult than ever.

 As a result more manufacturers left Few York and P number of such..
were hailed into the courts and before the Regional Labor Board for g": l


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