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Show NRA Proceeding Against Willful Code Violators been admonished and warned by lo-! lo-! cal compliance boards to comply with their voluntary agreements as i to labor conditions, and had refused 1 or ignored both personal and formal notices. i j WASHINGTON. NRA is moving 'swiftly and vigorously against vio-1 vio-1 laticns of codes of fair competition I and the President's Reemployment ! Agreement. Announcement was made that approximately 100 cases of violations of the price schedule adopted by an overwhelming majority ma-jority of the members of the cleaning clean-ing and dyeing industry will be turned turn-ed over to the Federal Trade Commission Com-mission for prosecution. These are located in 27 different States. About 150 others who also were called before be-fore NRA for hearings agreed to abide by the prices their industry had adopted. The first instance of an alleged violator of the lumber code was W. E. Belcher, of Centerville, Ala., for failure to comply with minimum-wage minimum-wage and maximum-hour provisions. In a memorandum to the department depart-ment of Justice it was pointed out that subdivisionai authorities had "exhausted their powers" in efforts to bring about voluntary compliance, hence the matter was placed in the hands of the Attorney General. Affidavits Affi-davits supported claims of laborers that their hours were unlimited and their pay 10 cents an hour. Sixteen employers in 12 States were summarily ordered by telegraph to surrender their Blue Eagles and not again use them without written consent from Washington. More than half of the alleged violators of the Presidential Agreement are proprietors pro-prietors of restaurants, a Chinese among them. Others conduct beauty shops, a livestock auction, a paint contractor, and a bakery. All had |