Traveling a rocky road beset by amendments since hearings began last May, the Black-Connery Wages & Hours Bill, spurred on by Franklin Roosevelt, nevertheless leaped over barrier after barrier, seemed headed for enactment. Out of the Joint Congressional Committee chairmanned by Senator Black and the late Representative Connery, this "little NRA" jumped: 1) the Senate Education and Labor Committee. 2) passive resistance by the A. F. of L., later modified, 3) the Senate by 56 to 28, 4) Congresswoman Mary T. Norton's House Labor Committee.
Last week at the foot of barrier No....
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