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 The report by the Dcrro-i Board, ne believe, '..'.s m.ae up of just
 such hearings referred by .the .:ekr Co'n.an,, .mnd is probably
 the reason why-the report of the Darrow 3oX, d did not meet the
 approval of the Administration.

 The reason for the ay.,ent of restitution of $800. by the
 ,eeker Company was because th;ey violated the labor provisions
 by pa:ying'less than the .nin.i:.u.. code :.';:cs. T'.is restitution
 vgs p.id to every worker entitled to receive it.

"Itn considering our case, I wish you w--ould again refer to our brief
left with you. These Hiew York fello'.'.s claim ,). great success for the
Code yet th1ty' have 91 cases of non-.cc-ioliance out of 337 .-.n -nfa>cturrs
that they claim are in the in_.L.s~ry, and during the past few weeks they
have allowed the eastern. .nIn'tctuis, c ise on the mar-
ket at prices it could not be produced for until the Easter marict was
virtually demoralized. 7aen I v'as Zsst recently the Jew: York papers
were full of special sales on fine .--ndbags at ridiculously low prices,
yet every producer of these bags was under the Code, that the I?.v York
crowd clai:.as is such a grund s cc-s.."

 The Administration .oes noat p:l5ow us to- fix p? .. -:We- c:.ns.pt
 ..oQtrol the :rhol.Sle lpriOes, .Iand c irt-" i,'n not thi retail-_.rices
 *.t ich bass may be sold.

 "The Code has .ork& nothing but a. hardship on us. As I ,r'iou1ly
 advised, in our vicinityT, there are shoe manufacturers, shirt mLnufac-
 turers, cigar manufacturers and others, none of ':hornm have the high mini-
 mum wage that we have, ..nd all of them have a period in which they can
 work absolutely green emoloyees.for a certain length of time until they
 get familiar with their ork at less than the mi-iimi.ua; 'o0, of the mini-
 mum in most cases, I think.. One garment manufacturer :ho employs about
 one hundred people here in our to'mn are able to work their ne'.: eoole
 whom they are trying to teach the business at 50,o of their $12.00 mini-
 mum for several weeks. Shoe concerns at ),O0 of the irinimlrnum for six weeks
 andL they have a minimum for female labor of 30, per hour. Ciear mranufac-
 turers here, and there are two of then, I understand from ver; reliable
 authority, paid little or no attention to the Code uini.m.U1.

 "1So all in all I kno'.': that no consideration has been ,-iven to our iso-
 lated position in this industr-r."

 r-e believe this is a criticism of the .\ and not the Code Au-
 thority of the Ladies' Handbag Ind-stry., We do xiovw that shoe
 manufacturers are an excellent source from whichh ezperiencc:l
 --orke-is may be procured to do work on rh-ndbags. Shoe cutters,
 stitchers and parers are generally considered more skillful
 than -orkers performing the sane operations in a nhandbag fac-
 tory, and these coinmprise three of the .,ijor operations in the
 making of a h.-ndbau. T7e are informed c..trr. are some shoe fac-



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