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 MISS SCIf2IDPRIATJ: Are w.-.e d:iving this lady an exenTrtion before she
turns in her statement? i

 MR. ORE3: ITo.

 MISS SChGIIDZRAAN: I think the Deputy is stating an exermntion
should be granted her. I do not think that is the right w.-.ay of doing it.
Also, dp I understand that in that exenrtion re are permitting learners.

 MR. ORE: There are no anprentices. i.,iss Rohr, will you follow
the trade practice-s of the Code?

 MISS ROHR: Absolutely.

 MR. ORE: The hours? :
 'l|
 MISS RO0R: Absolutely.

 MR. ORE: You have not paid any code assessments and you have not
been paying the wages, nor supplied the st.-tistics.

 MR. TAYLOR: The only exemption Miss Rohr would have would be for
a few employees at a wage rate below the minimum,

 MISS ROHR: I would like you people to see our wages for the fall.
If we could havea differential for the fall we would not care about it
for the spring.

 MR. MITTTjTHAL: A loss of $11,000 is not much in our industry.
There is no one in the industry v.,ho took those losses who was getting
an unusually high salary or not justified by their business. When they t
came under the blanklet code thie;r did not imow what the difference was
going to be in their labor cost. They did not allow enough. They
continued to sell at the sn1me -ric,.s and the differences in their
payrolls created that loss. The repairs on 1hndba. s amounts to 2
of the volume of the sales.

 MISS ROHR: We charge for all our r-pairs. And we Imew it was to
our interest to ;o out of business in the fall and manufacture only in .I
the spring, but wve have gone ahead with patented orders we Imew we o '
could put out in the spring. We have nothing in the spring because i
after we originate an idea we can go ahead vith it. We want to stay
wutil we can pay back our bank loan so that we will be able to stay
in business. .. :

 After instructing the Code Authority to issue labels to the
Virginia Art Studios, and after a-ain outlining the plan to be followed
in this case, the hearing was brought to a close by Mr. Ore.







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