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 THE VIRGIIIA ART GOODS STUDIOS, IITC.
 1306-1310 Church Street
 LY1IC; LRG, VIRGINIA


 March 12, 19:5.

 Mr. Vialter Mangum
 Deputy,, Administrator
 Textile Division
 National Recovery Administration
 ,7ashington, D. C.

 Dear Mr. Mangum:
 /
 We are just in receipt of your letter of :.arch llth in ?.nsv'er
 to ours of March 8th addressed to Col. Robert LT-a.

 First, in regard to the second paragr^.ph of your letter, we
 are well aware of what the Code provideses. Those provisions
 were made without our sanction as we have in innr xurorable letters
 to Washington set forth.

 In the very beginning the President announced tL.t if the
 provisions of the Code worked a hardship, a firm 'i,.i a right to
 a stay provided said firm entercc. a protest before a certain Cate,
 said stay to be effective until such ti.i, as a mcctiriLn -,ould be
 held and action taken in regard to the points ;?ain-t '"ich pro-
 test was entered.

 It seems quite surprising to us that before insw.-ring our
 letter you had not looked up the corresponJcnco we have had with
 .RA in regard to this matter. You state in the third para;raph of
 your letter that if we feel the OcL'.e provisions are vor :in- a hardship
 that we should write asking to be ranted an exemption. It would cer-
 tainly, seem that something of all the agitation -f this question would
 have come to your ears. *As we wrote in our letter of ::.arch 8th, ac-
 tion was to have been taken on our case b,'- the first of Sc,,tember, but
 no action was ever taken that we know of. ".7c wrote el'iborate cxilanai-
 tions, giving in detail our grievances, and stntinr;h' it v:"s abso-
 lutely necessary if we are to stay in bivsin-.-ss thi.at we be allowc-,d at
 most a. $12.00 minimum v -ge P.n. an apprentice period of 50, of t'iis
 @mount. Perhaps it would be well for you to look in the files -ind
 learn what the situation is.

 We wish to say once more that we consider we arc still allowed d
 the stay which the President agreed we might have, sin-oe no action
 has been taken on our orotst. We are, therefore, .iyng a limited
 number of beginners unfamiliar with the handbnag industry ',9.60 a
 week while they are training.

 As soon as our application for an cxcnmptin:', filed last Aucast,
 is put through "regular cha.nnc-ls" and a decision is made, we zvU1ll be
 glad to have a report on it.
 Very truly yours,
 THE VIRGI7IA ART -C-OCDS STUDIOS, I:7C.
 .M3/A Per (signed) l;.;I: R0
AI9811 Pros.