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VOLUME XXXIII
CLINTON EMPLOYERS RECEIVE "
PRESIDENT’S BLANKET CODE
NRA Blanks Distributed By City
Carriers. To Be Returned To
Ivocal Postoffice Sigrned By
Business Men.
One hundred and fifty copies of
President Roosevelt’s emerffency blan
ket code mailed from the WTiite House
in Wa:?hington, were received at the
Clinton postoffice Friday and distrib
uted by city carriers to every employ
er in town.
The signed pledges are being re-
"tnmett to tht* postoffico and will be
transmitted to the department of
commerce office in Charleston. A list
of local signers will be prepared at
the _Charleston, office and sent fiere
for display in the postoffice lo^vby.
The following note addressed “to
every employer,’’ signed by Franklin
1). Roosevelt and dated at the White
House July 27, is printed at the
top of each agreement:
1. This agreement is part of a na
tion-wide j>lan to raise wages, create
employment, and thus increase pur-
chasing power and restore business.
That plan depends wholly on united
action by all employers^ For this rea
son 1 ask you. as an employer, to do
your part by signing.
2. If it turns out that the general
i^reement bear.s unfairly on any
group of employers they can have that
straightened ou\ by presenting
promptly their proposed (.'ode of Fair
Competitiont
THE CODE
Text of the agreement authorized
by the National Recovery act follows:
(Authorized by Section 4a National
Industrial Recovery Act).
During the period of the President’s
emergency reemployment driyet^ that
is to say, from August 1 to December
31, l‘J33, or to any earlier date of ap
proval of a Code of Fair Competition
to which he is subject, the under
signed hereby agrees with the Presi
dent as follows:
Cn After August 31, 1933, not to
employ any person under 16 years of
age, except’ that persons between 14
and 16 may be emtdoyed (but not in
manufacturing or mechanical indus
tries) for not to exceed 3 hours per
day and tho.se hours between 7 a. m.
and 7 p. m. in such work as will not
interfere with hours of day school.
(2) Not to work any accounting,
clerical, banking, office, service, or
.sales employees (excepj puside sales
men) in any store, office, department,
establishment, or public utility, or on
any automotive or horse-drawn pass
enger, 'expcess, delivery, or freight
.service, or in any other place or man
ner, for more than 40 hours in any 1
week and not to reduce the hours of
any store or service operation to be
low r»2 hours in any 1 wwk, unless
such hours''were less than f>2 hours
per week before .luly 1, 1933, and, in
the latter case not to reduce such
hours at all.
Hours Are Fixed
' (3) Not to employ any factorv’ or
mechanical worker or artisan more
than a maximum week of Jf) ho\irs
until December 31, 1933, hut with the
right to work a-maximum week of 10
h(»urs for any six weeks within this
fteriod; and not t(» employ any worker
more than eight hours in any one day.
(4) The maximum hours fixed in
the foi-egoing paragi’aphs (2 land (3)
shall not apply to employees in estab-
lishment.s employing not more than
two persons in towns of less than
2,500 population w'hich towns are not
part of a larger trade area; nor to
registered pharmacists or other pro
fessional persons employed in their
profession; nor to employees in a
managerial or executive cajiacity, w’ho
now feceive^more than $35 pec week;| (8) Not to use any subterfuge to
or to employees on emergency mainte-1 frustrate the spirit and-intent of this
nance and repair work; nor to very4 agreement which is, among other
special cases where restrictions of j things, to increase employment by a
hours of highly skilled workers on j universal covenant, to remove ot>struc-
j continuous processes would unavoid-' tions to commtu’ce. and to shorten
ably reduce production, but, in any j hours and to raise wagbs for the
such special case, at, least time and [shorter week to a living basis,
i one-third ^shall be paid for hours | (9) Not to incivase the price of any
j worked in excess of the maximum.: lYitrchandise sold after the date here-
I Population for the purposes of this'of over the price on July 1, 1933, by
agreement shall be determined by ref- p^ore than is made necessary by actual
erence to the 1930 federal census. j increases in production, replacement,
i (5) Not to pay any of the classes [or invoice cp^t^of merchandise, or by
of employee.s mentioned in paragraph taxes or other costs resulting from
(2) leas than $15 per week in any > action taken pursuant to the .Agricul-
city of over 500,000 population, or injtural .Adjustment .Act, since July 1,
I the immediate trade area of such city; i 1933, and, in setting such price in-
inor less than $14.50 per week in any j creases, to give full weight to prob-
city of between 250,000 and 500,000 ^ able increases in sales volume and to
population, or in the imme<liate trade j refrain from taking profiteering ad-
arW-of. sueh.-citynm- less than 814 I vantage of the consuming public.
per wwk in any city of between 2,500^ ^ support and patronize es-
or 2.)0,0(M) population, or in j ^jjblisliments which also have signed
^diate trade area of such city, and agreement and arc listed as mem-
^iwns of less than 2.500 population to(National Recovery
• increase all wages by not less than Adnvimstrationi.
20 per cent, provided that this shall: cooperate to the fullest ex-
not reipiire wages in exce.ss of $12 per'^^.^^ having a Code of Fair Compe-
who wishes to do his part in the Pres-'
ident’s reemployment drive by sign
ing this agreemtmt, but who a.sserts
that'some^ particular prjjvision here
of, because of^peculiar circumstances,
will create great and unavoidable
hardship, niay obtain the benefits
hereof by signing this agreement and
putting it into effect and then, in a
petition approveil by a repre.sentative
trade association of his industry, nr
other repre.sentative organization des
ignated by N. R. A., may apply for a
stay of such provision pending a .sum
mary investigation by N. R. .A., if he
agrees in such application to abide by
the deci.^ion of each inve.stigation. This
agreement is entered into pursuant to
section 4 (a) of the National indus
trial Recovery Act and subject to all
the terms and conditions required by
sections 7 (a) and 10 (b) of that acL
666
week.
I*av Schedules
(6) Not to pay any omployte of the
cla.s.-^es mentioned in pt(ragra}>h (3)
le'-N than 10 cents per hour unless the
tition submitted by his industry at
the earliest jiossihle date, and in any
event before .September 1, lti33.
Price Increases
(12) Where, lM*foie .lune 16. 1933,
LIQl’ID - TABLETS - SALVE
t’heclw Mfttaria in 3 diva.foMa first
day. Headaches or Neuralgia
in .30 minutes.
FINK I.AXATIVE AND TONIC
Laurens Builds
Fine Grandstand
1,000 Can Be Accf mmodat^ On
Athletic F'leld. I.anditi? Field
Sponsored By l.eaders.
f , (.aurens, July 30.—-A cement' grand
stand ha.s just been con ’ete«i on the
: athletic field of the Laurens ^ city
, sch»H)l. The stand has a sealing ca-
L>acity of l.(H)0 and in ca<e of emer-
evney more people can he accommo-
•alated. The new imp»‘ovement was con
structed through the ct>ope’-alion of
Hhe Parent-Teacher as-^ociation and
the management of the R, F. ('. fi»rces.
The • laurens Bu.-ines.'i league is
sponsoring plans for opening a land
ing field on a 30-acre tract on the ea.st
'.side of Souih Harper street, near the
terminus of the thortmghfare. ’TYie
property was formerly used for a bail
park. With plans worket) out for the
' improvement (if the f oldi l-be prepara-
jtory work will U* dyne at the in>^‘ance
of the commercial orgrtnizat i-n in co-
o|»eration with the city council.
I
to
hourly rate for the .'-ame class of|tlu‘ umlersigni'd had contracted
work on July 15, ll>2t*, was less than purchase good.s at a fixed price for
10 cent.s |»ef hour, in which latter case 1 delivery during tlu* period of this
not to pay less than tFie hourly rate | agreement, the uiidersigneil will make
on July 15, P.129, and in no event less un appropriate luliuslment of said
than 30 cents per hour. It is agreed|fi*xe(l price to meet any increase in
that this paragraph establishes a cost eaus*‘d Uy the seller having sign-
: guaranteed minimum
rate of pay re-
garilless of whether the employee is
;eompensatT’d on the basis of a time
Irate or’an a piecework performance.
1
(7) Not to ix'duce the compensation
for eni|)loyment now in exce.sa of the
minimum wages hereby agreed to
(notwithutanding that the hours
worked in such employment may be
hereby reducer!) and to increase the
pay for such employment by an ade
quate readjuslment of All pay sched
ules.
ed this President's Reemployment
.Agreement ot- having become bound
by any Code of Fair Competition ap
proved by the President.
(13) This agreement shall cease up
on approval by the President of a
co<le to which the undersigned is sub
ject; or, if the N. R. A. so elects, upon
submission of a code to which the
undersigned is subject and substitu
tion of any of its provisions for any
of the terms-of this agreement.
(14) It is agreed that any person
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION
WRITE THE CEMENT SERVICE
MAN, CARE OF:
PORTLAND CEMENT ASSOCIATION
MneI lui|<Na^ AHowto, Oo.
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Perkins Drives The Real Leader
The NEW FORD V-8
FOR THE PAST 30 YEARS FORD HAS SOLD
^ 11-3 CARS A MINUTE! T
-FOR-
After you see Capt. Perkins drive the New Ford
V-8t 8M L. W.jCooper or H. B. Workman, repre
sentatives, for free dononstration.
COME TO
FRIDAY, AUG. 4*
for
“NEW DEAL
BARGAIN DAYS”
See
Capt. Rube Perkins
Drive The New
FORD V-8
Blindfolded
^Tlilt b a (iilWaM
Tilipiw Cibla
fram unleaa ha due-
actCT la Indicaied by
a r/mbot in the check
WE STE RN
_ UNION
r c»io«a«v
( I.INTON MOTOR CO.
FORI) DFALERS
cLV^rmr^rc:
HU&.
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GET THE NEW
FORD
IN ACCORDANf’E WITH OUR REGULAR i*R(K'EI)UKE I’LKASE
HAVE ON HAND TWO FORI) EARS FOR BLINDFYM.U DRIVE
WHICH WE ARE TO STAIJK STOP I SKI.ECT THE niRI) CAR
BECAUSE I SINCERELY BEIJEVK IT TO BE THE BF:ST LIGHT
CAR ON THE MARKET STOP THANKS FY)R YOUR r(K>PK}iATl()N.
" CAIT. RUBE PERKiKS.
Let us d^nonstrate this esu* suid you will be convinced like Capt Rube PoTcins i
unique values in it being the greatest LIGHT ckr on the American market today.
Clinton Motor Company
Phone 119—Clinton, S.. C.