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 Part 3

 HO;IOCI:


 HIcmo Prep .: Dy A nuf -ctur. r 'or
 Ju-.e Hrea'rin-u


 Tnc -,ositioni of the bca ed b!- industry in kn" ric. is one that
requires special consider"',tion bccauase its competition.- is not with othej
Axericin .-r.de products, but ,lmo'st entirely uith a ', roduct ha.t is made
in foriiin countries, without anadcquate tariff to -protect the Americn
m- du product.

 The system of r.iaking bc-ded b:%r's in Japan Belgium, Czechoslovadkia
-nd Fra.nce, vihe-i- most be':,;d bars are made, is too well known to the
industry to -xmlain in detail. They are nac enti'el,;' in the homes ind
the worLcr. earn t'ircc to five cents -an hour. A t riff of 60 only
:''dd to to three cents an h our mali-ig the tot-.l five to eight cents a
hour, plus anotLior 15&. to 20, for freight ann(. othl.r overhcac. cha.r,os.

 It is obvious that the bca.ed ba.gL industry c *,.not exist under the
.r.?rcnt we rate established by the Cod.e and will soon become extinct
as -.n -mcric .n Industry, At present, the work is ivun out to home
workers, the industry employs about 7000 such w-or'crs, in a few hundred.
cities -.nI villa.eo, in ten different sta.tes. A visit to many of the
homes of these workers will bear evidence to whAt the income from this
home. work cians to these families, frequently it ir the onl'- source of
income, in many c-:es it is aCded to the nea.cr c.arnings of pa.rtilly
employr-c crrnrs of t-ic family and affords the fc'' liu.uries they enjoy.
Without this home work, imnny of these families ,'.o-:Lid oe found on the
city cirnrity .ay.olls.

 Even before the effective datc of the Code, MA-arch 26, the prices
 '- for 111AT, iLas-
 ,a, for ho work-, even th-.I-_ ardmittedl.- low, it wasrc erded as |
blessi.-: to these -.r:rs, who could not uic .usc of f-anily or physical
reasons levc the hore to work in a factory, even if such a factory
could bc est:ablizhd in the locality of their Ih'.rrMs.
 The be.,- be-; inCustry ha.s ,.'ooeer. to thI-, C)("c Authority a pln
that vwill assure to tuCE wor'-or r, rate of u-ag ",out tr'o -.nd on half:
tines gra ter th'n they hav. boon able to e'arn erL.tofore. By this pl9
no "nufactu'or rr t ..C vrnt _-' of the absence of prryining porer
by .n individual her.. worker. ?:e pl-,n will be supervised by the Code
Authority, and- enforce Lcnt of the va;o, r'te of '5 A an hour '.ut under r thi
co vli-nc% division of the Code Directors. The -!a.n --,rovidcs that the
lbe".,'d '^:-.janu';ac.:ur rs ,\all point an imparti! crson or agency to:
be des.- '.tcd by tao Code Authority, to "iho-i all -rticlcs -iven out to
be :'i-dc by hone o'-,rs will first bc submitted for the fixing of a pie
"brk price `1't rill result in ,a wae not less thl-.n 25 r-.e-: hour to a
h.:nir; uorc- of verge ability. That failure o-:-. the -a,.rt of M-ufacti



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