Letter to National Recovery Administrator Hugh S. Johnson on Conditions in the Executive Order Approving the Code of Fair Competition for the Daily Newspaper Publishing Business

                                                                                     THE WHITE HOUSE
                                                                            Washington, February 17, 1934.

General HUGH S. JOHNSON,
     National Recovery Administrator,
          National Recovery Administration,
               Washington, D.C.

MY DEAR GENERAL JOHNSON:

In addition to the conditions in the Executive Order approving the Code of Fair Competition for the Daily Newspaper Publishing Business, I wish to make the following observations:

(a) "I am not satisfied with the Child Labor Provisions. A special report and recommendations in regard to the carrying out of the Provisions will be made to me at the end of 60 days.

(b) The publishers of newspapers having a circulation of seventy-five thousand or more in cities of seven-hundred and fifty thousand population or more are requested to install a five day, forty hour week for their staff of reporters and writers with the purpose of giving employment to additional men and women in this field. A report on this will be made at the end of sixty days."

Sincerely,

FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT