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Legal Division August 28, 1934

 MEMORANDUM

To: Crpt. J. F. Battle.', Acting Division Administrator
 Division III

From: J. G. Latimer, Division Counsel

Subject: Froposed Amendment of Article IV Section 2 of the
 LADIES HAND BAG II-DUSTRY CODE


 I was. requested by George L. Berry, Division Administrator of Divi-
sion III, for the Legal Division's opinion regarding the approval of
Executive Order amending Article IV Section 2 of the Ladies Hand Bag In-
dustry Code, and in compliance with that request herewith transmit to
you my opinion.

 Said Article IV Section 2 reads as follows:

 "No semi-skilled employees engaged in cutting, framing paring,
 pocketbook making and/or operating (except lining operations,
 cementing and/or pasting) employed in the manufacture of any
 of the products covered by the provisions of this Code, made
 of any materials other than imitation leather, shall be paid
 at less than the rate of forty-five (450) cents per hour."

 The Order of the Administrator for Industrial Recovery approving
said Code provides as a condition of approval in part as follows:

 "Section 2 of Article IV be stayed until such time as the
 Code Authority shall present to the Administrator a defini-
 tion of the term tsemi-skilled employee' which receives the
 approval of the Administrator."

 The proposed modification provides for the deletion of the word
"1semi-skilled" and the words "made of any materials other than imitation
leather" from said Section 2.

 The following provisions in the Code have reference to modification
of same, to-wit:

 "Article IX Sectionl. This Code and all the provisions there-
 of are expressly made subject to the right of the President,
 in accordance with the provisions of sub-section (b) of
 Section 10 of the National Industrial Recovery Act, from
 time to time to cancel or modify any order, approval, license,
 rule or regulation issued under Title I of the said Act and


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