U.S. National Recovery Administration Printed Documents from the Division Review, 1935-1941
Collection Number: 5391

Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives
Cornell University Library


DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

Title:
U.S. National Recovery Administration Printed Documents from the Division Review, 1935-1941
Repository:
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives
Collection Number:
5391
Abstract:
Studies of the effect of NRA codes on various industries.
Creator:
U.S. National Recovery Administration (NRA)
Quanitities:
4 cubic feet
Language:
Collection material in English

Biographical / Historical

The National Recovery Administration, also known as the NRA, was the first of several agencies to be established under authority of the National Industrial Recovery Act (48 Stat. 195), approved on June 15, 1933. Headed by an Administrator for Industrial Recovery (Gen. Hugh S. Johnson) and subject to the general supervision at first of a Special Industrial Recovery Board (consisting of the Attorney General, the Secretaries of Agriculture, the Interior, Commerce and Labor the Director of the Budget, the Chairman of the Federal Trade Conmission, and the Administrator for Industrial Recovery) and later of the National Emergency Council, the function of the NRA was to carry out the main provisions of title I of the Recovery Act. The program of the NRA had four main objectives: (l) To spread work by reducing the number of hours; (2) to increase consumer purchasing power by increasing total wage distribution; (3) to stop trade practices that were similar to those already recognized as legally unfair and to limit the severity of competition without raising prices so drastically as to neutralize the increase in total wages; and (4) to eliminate child labor.
As a means of attaining these objectives, the N.R.A. planned for the adoption of a series of codes of fair competition for the separate regulation of every important branch of trade and industry. During the period from July to October 1933 an intensive drive was made for signatures to the President's Reemployment Agreement and for popular support of its provisions.
An administrative staff was created in April 1934 to act in the name of the Administrator on all subjects assigned to it. This staff consisted of the Administrative Officer, the Review Officer (head of the Reviev Division, created in February 1943), a Special Assistant Administrator, an Assistant Administrator for Policy, the General Counsel (head of the Legal Division), the Economic Adviser (head of the Research and Planning division), a Publicity Adviser, and a Director of Enforcement.
On May 27, 1935, the United States Supreme Court handed down its decision in the Schechter case, invalidating all the codes and those portions of the Recovery Act upon which they were founded. In the light of this decision the NRA began at once to reduce its staff. A considerable part of its field, and headquarters personnel was retained to carry out such remnent functions as had escaped the interdict and such new duties as were assigned to the agency by Congress or the President.
A Senate Joint Resolution, approved June 14, 1935, extended title I of the Recovery Act until April 1,1935, expressly repealing, however, those parts of the original act that delegated power to the President to approve or prescribe codes of fair competition or that provided for the enforcement of such codes.
The National Recovery Administration was, of course, reorganized. The Agency was placed under an administrator and a few of the divisions continued, but on a diminished scale. Most of the remaining personnel were absorbed! by two large new divisions, the Division of Business Cooperation arid the Division of Review. The Division of Reviev was established to assemble, analyse, and report upon the statistical information and records of experience of the operations of the various trades and industries formerly subject to the codes of fair competition and to review the effects of the administration of Title I of the Recovery Act and the principles and policies put into effect under its authority.
The NRA was formally terminated on January 1, 1936, when. its Division of Review, Division of Business Cooperation, and Advisory Council were transferred to the Department of Commerce for liquidation by the following April 1. The Consumers' Division was transferred at the same time to the Department of Labor.
On April 1, 1936, the President appointed a Committee of Industrial Analysis, composed of the Secretary of Commerce as Chairman, the Secretary of Agriculture, the Secretary of Labor, and. four additional members from outside the Government to complete the work begun by the Division of Review end to "prepare for the President an adequate and final review of the effects of the administration of title I of the national Industrial Recovery Act." To assist this Committee, a Division of Industrial Economics was created in the Commerce Department. The Committee and its adjunct Division brought their work to a close in February 1937.
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U.S. National Recovery Administration Printed Documents from the Division Review #5391. Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Cornell University Library.

Related Materials

Related Collections: 5699: William Bardsley Collection of United States National Recovery Administrations and National War Labor Board Printed and Mimeographed Documents

SUBJECTS

Names:
United States. National Recovery Administration.
United States. National Recovery Administration. Division of Review.
Subjects:
Administrative agencies--United States--Rules and practice.

CONTAINER LIST
Container
Description
Date
Box 1 Folder 1
Economic Survey of the Bituminous Coal Industry Under Free Competition and Code Regulation Volume I
1936
Box 1 Folder 2
Economic Survey of the Bituminous Coal Industry Under Free Competition and Code Regulation Volume II
1936
Box 1 Folder 3
The Fertilizer Study Volume I
1936
Box 1 Folder 4
The Fishery Industry and the Fishery Codes
1936
Box 1 Folder 5
Foreign Trade Study of the Forest Products Industry
1936
Box 1 Folder 6
Earnings of Fishermen and of Fishing Craft: Appendix to The Fisher Industry and the Fishery Codes
1936
Box 1 Folder 7
The Men's Clothing Industry
1936
Box 1 Folder 8
National Labor Income By Months 1929-1935
1936
Box 1 Folder 9
The Motion Picture Industry
1936
Box 1 Folder 10
Production, Prices, Employment and Payrolls in Industry, Agriculture, and Railway Transportation
1935
Box 1 Folder 11
Textile Industry in the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy and Japan
1936
Box 1 Folder 12
Financial and Labor Data on the Women's Neckwear and Scarf Industry
1936
Box 1 Folder 13
Some Aspects of the Women's Apparel Industry
1936
Box 1 Folder 14
Information Concerning Commodities: A Study in NRA and Related Experience in Control
1936
Box 1 Folder 15
Design Piracy -- The Problem and its Treatment Under NRA Codes
1936
Box 1 Folder 16
The Control of Geographic Relations Under Codes of Fair Competition
1936
Box 1 Folder 17
Minimum Price Regulation Under Codes of Fair Competition
1936
Box 1 Folder 18
Operation of the Basing Point Provisions in the Lime Industry Code
1936
Box 1 Folder 19
Price Control in the Coffee Industry
1936
Box 1 Folder 20
Price Filing Under NRA Codes Volume I
1936
Box 2 Folder 1
NRA Report on the Coat and Suit Industry
1936
Box 2 Folder 2
NRA Report on the Cap and Cloth Hat Industry
1935
Box 2 Folder 3
NRA Report on Employment and Unemployment 1929 to 1935
1936
Box 2 Folder 4
NRA Report on the Automobile Industry
1935
Box 2 Folder 5
NRA Report on Wage Trends in Prosperity and Depression
1936
Box 2 Folder 6
NRA Report on Anti-Trust Laws and Unfair Competition
1935
Box 2 Folder 7
NRA Report on The Right of Individual Employees to Enforce Provisions of Collective Bargaining Agreements
1935
Box 2 Folder 8
Federal Regulation Through the Joint Employment of the Power of Taxation and the Spending Power
1936
Box 2 Folder 9
Possibility of Government Contract Provisions as a Means of Establishing Economic Standards
1936
Box 2 Folder 10
Regulation of Industrial Relations in Australia
1936
Box 2 Folder 11
State Recovery Legislation in Aid of Federal Recovery Legislation -- History and Analysis
1936
Box 2 Folder 12
The Treaty-Making Power of the United States
1935
Box 2 Folder 13
Two Studies of Certain Constitutional Powers as Possible Bases for Federal Regulation of Employer-Employee Relationships
1936
Box 2 Folder 14
The Baking Industry
1935
Box 2 Folder 15
The Boot and Shoe Manufacturing Industry
1935
Box 2 Folder 16
The Bottled Soft Drink Industry
1935
Box 2 Folder 17
The Builder's Supplies Industry
1935
Box 2 Folder 18
The Canning Industry
1935
Box 2 Folder 19
The Construction Industry
1935
Box 2 Folder 20
The Cotton Garment Industry
1935
Box 2 Folder 21
The Dress Manufacturing Industry
1935
Box 2 Folder 22
The Electrical Contracting and Manufacturing Industry
1935
Box 2 Folder 23
The Metal Industry
1935
Box 2 Folder 24
The Fishery Industry
1936
Box 2 Folder 25
The Furniture Manufacturing Industry
1935
Box 2 Folder 26
General Contractors Industry
1935
Box 2 Folder 27
Graphic Arts Industry
1935
Box 2 Folder 28
The Hosiery Industry
1935
Box 2 Folder 29
The Iron and Steel Industry
1935
Box 2 Folder 30
The Leather Industry
1935
Box 2 Folder 31
The Lumber and Timber Products Industry
1935
Box 2 Folder 32
Mason Contractors Industry
1935
Box 2 Folder 33
The Men's Clothing Industry
1935
Box 2 Folder 34
The Motion Picture Industry
1935
Box 2 Folder 35
The Motor Vehicle Retailing Trade Industry
1935
Box 2 Folder 36
Needlework Industry in Puerto Rico
1935
Box 2 Folder 37
The Painting, Paperhanging and Decorating Industry
1935
Box 2 Folder 38
Photo Engraving Industry
1935
Box 2 Folder 39
The Plumbing Contracting Industry
1935
Box 2 Folder 40
The Retail Lumber Industry
1935
Box 2 Folder 41
Retail Trade
1935
Box 2 Folder 42
The Rubber Tire Manufacturing Industry
1935
Box 2 Folder 43
Ship and Boat Building and Repairing Industries
1935
Box 2 Folder 44
The Silk Textile Industry
1935
Box 2 Folder 45
The Structural Clay Products Industry
1935
Box 2 Folder 46
The Throwing Industry
1935
Box 2 Folder 47
The Trucking Industry
1935
Box 2 Folder 48
The Waste Materials Trade
1935
Box 2 Folder 49
Wholesale and Retail Food Industry
1935
Box 2 Folder 50
The Wool Textile Industry
1935
Box 3 Folder 1
The Asphalt Shingle and Roofing Industry
1936
Box 3 Folder 2
The Business Furniture, Storage Equipment and Filing Supply Industry
1936
Box 3 Folder 3
The Candy Manufacturing Industry
1936
Box 3 Folder 4
The Carpet and Rug Manufacturing Industry
1936
Box 3 Folder 5
The Cement Industry
1936
Box 3 Folder 6
The Cleaning and Dyeing Trade
1935
Box 3 Folder 7
The Coffee Industry
1936
Box 3 Folder 8
The Copper and Brass Mill Products Industry
1935
Box 3 Folder 9
The Cotton Textile Industry
1935
Box 3 Folder 10
The Electrical Manufacturing Industry
1935
Box 3 Folder 11
Fertilizer Industry
1935
Box 3 Folder 12
The Glass Container Industry
1936
Box 3 Folder 13
Ice Industry
1935
Box 3 Folder 14
The Knitted Outerwear Industry
1935
Box 3 Folder 15
Paint, Varnish, and Lacquer Manufacturing Industry
1935
Box 3 Folder 16
The Plumbing Fixtures Industry
1936
Box 3 Folder 17
Rayon and Synthetic Yarn Producing Industry
1935
Box 3 Folder 18
The Salt Producing Industry
1936
Box 3 Folder 19
The Funeral Supply Industry
1935
Box 3 Folder 20
History of the Compliance Division
1936
Box 3 Folder 21
History of the Review Division
1935
Box 3 Folder 22
History of the Code of Fair Competition for the Shipbuilding and Ship repairing Industry
1936
Box 3 Folder 23
History of the Code of Fair Competition for the Ladies Handbag Industry
1936
Box 3 Folder 24
Legal Aspects of Price Control
1936
Box 3 Folder 25
The So-called Model Code: Its Development and Modification
1936
Box 3 Folder 26
An Analysis of the PRA Census
1936
Box 3 Folder 27
Legal Aspects of Labor Problems-- Minimum Wages
1936
Box 3 Folder 28
Report of the Committee on the Economic and Social Implications of the Company Store and Scrip System
1936
Box 3 Folder 29
A Case in Code Authority Information Gathering
1936
Box 3 Folder 30
Report of the Commission for the Coat and Suit Industry
1936
Box 3 Folder 31
Report on the Operation of the National Industrial Recovery Act
1935
Box 3 Folder 32
Hours, Wages and Employment Under the Codes
1935
Box 3 Folder 33
Prices and Price Provisions in Codes
1935
Box 3 Folder 34
Tabulation of Labor Provisions in Codes Approved by August 8, 1934
1935
Box 3 Folder 35
NRA Report of the President's Committee of Industrial Analysis
1937
Box 3 Folder 36
Bureau of the Census: By Divisions and States
1935
Box 3 Folder 37
WWI: Chronology of Important Events
1941
Box 3 Folder 38
Report on the Study of Natural Areas of Trade in the U.S.
1936
Box 3 Folder 39
Study of Regularization of Employment and Improvement of Labor Conditions in the Automobile Industry
1935
Box 4 Folder 1
Price Filing Under NRA Codes
1936
Box 4 Folder 2
Resale Price Maintenance Legislation in the United States
1935
Box 4 Folder 3
Restriction of Retail Price Cutting With Emphasis on the Drug Industry
1936
Box 4 Folder 4
Trade-Practice Conference Rules of the FTC
1936
Box 4 Folder 5
Wage Differentials in the Cap and Cloth Hat Industry
1936
Box 4 Folder 6
Data on Average Weekly and Average Hourly Earnings in Selected Manufacturing Industries, 1933-1935
1936
Box 4 Folder 7
Employment, Payroll, Hours and Wages in 115 Selected Code Industries, 1933-1935
1935
Box 4 Folder 8
Wages and Hours in the Fur Manufacturing Industry
1936
Box 4 Folder 9
NRA Policies, Standards and Code Provisions on Basic Weekly Hours of Work
1936
Box 4 Folder 10
Migration of Selected Industries as Influenced by Area Wage Differentials in the Codes of Fair Competition
1936
Box 4 Folder 11
Safety and Health Work Under NRA
1936
Box 4 Folder 12
Child Labor Control Under NRA
1936
Box 4 Folder 13
Agreement Under Section 4(a) and 7(b) of the NIRA
1936
Box 4 Folder 14
The Basic Code (Administrative Order No. X-61)
1936
Box 4 Folder 15
Code Compliance Activities of the National Recovery Administration
1936
Box 4 Folder 16
The Code Making Program of the NRA in the Territories
1936
Box 4 Folder 17
Policy Statements Concerning Code Provisions and Related Subjects
1935
Box 4 Folder 18
The Content of NIRA Administrative Legislation
1936
Box 4 Folder 19
NRA Insignia
1936
Box 4 Folder 20
The President's Reemployment Agreement
1936
Box 4 Folder 21
The Prison Labor Problem Under NRA Administration and The Prison Compact
1936
Box 4 Folder 22
Problem of Administration
1936
Box 4 Folder 23
Relationship of NRA to Government Contracts
1936
Box 4 Folder 24
The Work of the Division Review
1936
Box 4 Folder 25
Sheltered Workshops Under NRA
1936