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 !:arch 11, 1935

 Lir. C. Meeker, President
 The L.deeker Company, Inc.
 Joplin, Missouri

 Dear Sir:

 I rin in receipt of your letter of Iarch 8th -.hich must
 have crossed mine of recent date. I note the letter from the
 present Code Authority to you, which I return herewith. This does
 give :n illuminating view both of the vicissitudes through which
 the Code has passed and of the attitude of the Code Authority toward
 your peculiar problem.

 The letter vhich I have already writtenn you will have
 covered the subject of an application to the Administrator for the
 setting up of learner provisions. This can be dul'y filed with the
 supporting evidence which I have suggested to you. I am sure that
 the matter will receive most cardful consideration. 'U.qnt the re-
 sults will be, I cannot predict because juzt at the present time the
 continuance of all codes is under serious doubt.

 In regard to the establishing of differentials between
 Mlissouri and the East, it -;ould be necessary for you to present the
 following evidence, backed b. affidavits of responsible parties other
 than yourself:

 1. Wage. no being paid in your region for similar
 classes of .'ork;
 2. Wfges paid by yo,-.'r industry; per cent of labor
 costs to totsl costs in issouri, com'rc- with
 simil:.r fiTares for the >-astern territory.
 3, '.oenses other than labor costs in your region
 in excess of Eastern e- enses.

 I have asked the Resccrch and Pl:.nnin7 Divisioi to accu-
 mulate some figures in regard to the pcr cent of litbor costs to the
 tot.l costs in the -astern Division and ho:e they ';ill be able to
 secure this information. The remainder of the information you .'ould
 have to secure so that it could be preented in brief form, suo-orted
 by the necessary affidavits.

 As you point out, the application for learner provisions
 are within n the powers of the kdLministrator to -7r..nt. Application for
 the setting u-o of differentials, I .-ja fr Lid, would require an m.rad-
 ment of the Code cnd this would have to go, in the first instance,
 through the Code Authority. If, however, yoa -crc- blocked there, rou
 could take the matter up with the Administrotor. I would, ho.'cver, on
 the w.;hole, advise you to wait until ConrGre's has e-.rressed itself nore
 definitely as to the future of all Codes, as it 1-7 be unnecssjrY to
 suggest further amendmentss at the present ti:ae.

 Yours truly,
NCI Howell *heney
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