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 OMDER

 CODE OF FAIR CO1ETITION

 FOR THE

 LADIES' KAITDBAG INDUSTRY

 Apoointing specie.l corimission to study labor conditions in the
Ladies' :-rndba2 Industry.

 A Code of Fair Competition for the Ladies' r'.ndbag Industry having,
 been heretofore ayrroved on Larch 14, 1924, nud it being; provided in
 Section 2 of Article IV of said Code, that "no semi-s1illec employees
 engaged in cutting, fraom.ing, paring, pocketboo] ;apking a.nd/or opnratinz
 (except lining, operating, cementing and/or basting) er.r-'loyed in the
 manufacture of ,nny of the products governed "by the -o'ovisions of this
 Code r iade of any materials other than imrritation leather, shall be paid.
 at no less than the rate of 45,,, per hour"; -.nd

 The application of said Section 2 of Article IV having been styei
 by Section 1 of the Administrative Order of Iarch 14, 1934 approving
 said Code until such tiae as the Code Authority shall present to the
 Administrator a definition of the term "semi-skilled employee" which
 receives the approval of the Administrator; and

 .The Code Authority having been unable to ,resent a definition of
 said. term acce-)ta.ble to the Administrator nd all oth-er attempts to
 secure a satisfactory definition having failed; and

 It being also provi,.ed in Section 5 of Article IV of said Code
 that "The Airiuistrp.tor may upon recommendation br the Code Authority
 pnd. after full study and investigation by the Code Authority and after
 such notice Pnd hearing as he shall prescribe, establish as a part of
 this Code such basic rates for the more skilled classes of employees
 as may be necessp.ry to further effectuate ;he -urposes of the Act; and,

 It appearing to me necessary, notwithstanding that the Code
Authority has made no recommendations as to the establishment of basia
rates for the more skilled classes of employees, that a study be made
of the Industry to determine the -.esirability and -racticability of t
establishment of such basic rates; and

 It being also provided in Section 1 of. Article III of said Code
that "no employee shall be --err.mittd to work in excess of forty (40)
hours in ony one week nor in excess of eight (8) hIours in any twenty-
four (24) hour period; and

 ?.ecoriendations having been mede to me that said hour provisions
has not tended to effectuate the purposes of the Act by the relief of
unemploy-,ent in the Industry; and




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