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" terpretations of President's Re-employment Agreement I |,terpr*ut?on?? Nob. 1 to 6 K president's Reemployment I Client wa8 written in language Eld to be flexible to meet varie Af conditions. As a result, inBLutions will be required from C to time us uncertainities in the KLtion of the Agreement deHT Interpretation N?>- 1 I (concerning paragraph 7) # hr*Kral,h 7 means, first, that |\V.Qtinn of employess above the Cum wage group (whether now ijby the hoar, day, week, or ITrtuse) shall' not be reduced, Er to compensate the employer Ktcreases that he may bo required Lite in the minimum wage group Ruder to comply with the AgreeE or to turn this Reemployment Cement into a mere ahare-theE* movement without a resulting Eje of total purchasing power. KjrSt provision of paragraph 1 is Egeral statement of whajt shall Kg rest of paragraph 7 is a par ir statement of what SHALL be L vhieh is that rates of pay for Eiyees above the minimum wage Ep shall ho increased by Ejtablc readjustments." No hard Efast rule can be laid down for K readjustments, because the varEs in rates of pay and hofclrs of would make the application of formula unjust in thousands of ^Ei We present, however, the Spring examples of the need for Kothods of such readjustments: flAMPLE 1. Employees ' now ^Efri? forty hours per week in ^Eiiries. When hours are reduced ^Eforty-five.the present rate per Erif increased one-seventh would the same compensation for a Ku| week's work as before. DAMPLE 2. Employees now ^Eting sixty hours per week in facKfe. When hours are reduced to Hkfy-five> a rate per hour if in'H&xd one-seventh might be insufHacst to provide proper compensaH|l But, to increase the rate by ^ k-sevenths, in order to provide the Hit compensation for thirty-five Hn as previously earned in sixty, Hty impose an inequitable burden ^Btk empolyer. The sixty-hour might have been in effect be^Bpw of a rush of business, although iforty-hour week might have been ^Bmal practice at the same hourly Seasonal or temporary inin hours now in effect, or reincreases in wages, are proper Hdoh to be taken into consideration k naking equitable readjustments. H IV policy governing the readjustof wages of all employees in ^ kimay be termed the higher wage lltaps requires, not a fixed rule, but Citable readjustment" in view of ^pt rtading differentials in pay HWules; with due regard for the that payrolls are being heavily ^Bowsed, and that employees will benefits from shorter hours, ?? the reemployment of other ^ *rt?rs, arid fiom stabilized employH*t which may increase their yearly foregoing examples indicate i necessity <>f dealing with this jtoblem of "equitable readjustment" higln-r rates of pay, on the of consideration of the varying ^Bjcmnstanccs and conditions of the < oosands of enterprises and employ* I J?ts involved. Any attempt to j H^lne a national standard would be ^ Wuctive ..j' widespread injustices. Hp National Recovery Administrat\ *111, through local agencies, obWP* ?refully t ho manner in which) H*P'?yers l- imply with their Agree-: to nu-ki. "equitable readjust- j i and will take from time to j WT* an:, unce from Washington! H|h.; actio:; a.- nrjiv bo necessary to; asos of unfairness and : ntious employers in j H^*1^ out in good faith the terms . 111 ''^idoyer signs an Agree* j RiVn ar ' " his compliance | D ALSO JOIN'S IN THE SUR-1 Kw!J0N ?f a CODE OF FATR Ho ETITION before September l,j iP Pi* determination of what are 1 readjustments" should be at aast prior to September^ t a Prima facie compliance with E *?reement. pending action by N., Hit? uP?n the Code submitted, or EL! artion by N. R. A. taken to War propPr interpretations or apH^0"* of Agreements. This will Ifcrvtv l an opportunity to ?i&lo ^ S*beral results of the Re ^fficnip^nt ^>ro^ram and to iron out I A 168 an(* misunderstanding I ^at are a stibi^^^rmcter. j Interpretation No. 2 (concerning paragraph 14) . A person >yho believes that some particular provis^n in the Agree mont, because ? of 'peculiar circumstances, will create great and unavoidable hardship, should prepare a petition to N. K. A. asking for a stay of this provision as to him. He shouldthen submit this petition to the trade association of his industry, or if there is none, to the local Chamber of Com meree or similar representative organisation designated by N. K. A., for its approval. The written" approval of the trade association, or such other organization, will be accepted by N. R. A. as the basis for a) temporary stay, without further investigation, pending decision by N. R. A. The petition must contain a promise 16 abide by N. U. A.'s decision, so that if N. It. A. decides against the petitioner, he must give effect to the provision which was stayed, from the date of the decision of N. R. A. 10 The petition and approval of the trade association or other organization, as precrihed above, should he forwarded to N. R. A. in Washington; and the employer's signed copy of the President's Reemployment Agreement should bo sent to tho District Office of the Department of Commerce. After complying- with these requirements the employer will be entitled to receive and display the Blue Eagle by delivering his certificate of compliance to his Post Office. Paragraph 14 is not intended to provide for group exceptions, but only to meet cases of individual hardship. Interpretation No. 3 (concerning date of compliance) It is expected that all employers desiring to cooperate with the President's recovery program will ?\gn the Agreements promptly and mail them in. It is recognized, however, that it will be physically impossible in many instances to adjust employ- . merit conditions and to hire the necessary additional personnel in order to comply with fhe Agreement on August 1st. For that reason, provision has been made for issuing the Blue Eagle only upon the filling of a certificate of compliance. It should be possible in most cases to make the necessary adjustments and file a certificate of compliance within the first week of August, and such action, taken as promptly as possible, I will be regarded as carrying out the Agreement in good faith. Interpretation No. 4 (concerning paragraph 13 All employers are expected to sign the Agreement, whether Codes have beer, submitted * tpr R- A. or not (unlss such codes have already been approved); but after the President has approved a Code, or after N. R. A* has approved of the substitution I of the provisions of a Code for Agreements in the trade or industry covered, conformity with the Code provisions by an employer will be re gardech as compliance with his individual Agreement. Interpretation No. 5 (concerning paragraph 9) Where the July 1, 1933 price was a distress price, the employer signing the agreement may take his cost price on that date as the base for such increase in selling price a I permitted'by Paragraph 9. Interpretation No. <? (concerning employments covered by the Agreement) The following groups of employment are not intended to be covered btf the President's Reemplyment Agreement: y 1. Professional occupations. 2: Employees of Federal, State! and local gQ.vernmer.ts and other public institutions and agencies. 3 Agricultural labor. 4. Domestic servants. 5. Persons buying goods and selling' them independently or persons selling solely on commission, providcl, however, that persons regularly cm )hyed *o sell on commission, with a base salary or guaranteed compensation, come within the requirements of the agreement. Interpretations No. 7 (concerning paragraph 4)^ Time and a Third For Hours Worked in Excess of the Maximum by -m I ployees on Emergency Maintenance and Repair Work. Hours Worked in excess of the I maximum by employees on crT|erf?en: cy maintenance or repair work shall be paid at the rate of time and onethird. . j Interpretation No. ? i (concerning paragraph 2) Seasonal Reduction of Hours of Operation The hours of any store or service | 5SS&328E2B32BGBHE3BBS operation may b?5 reduced below/the minimum specified in parugruph 2, it the reduction is in accordance with a practice of seasonal reduction of hours and does not reault in deduction of the weekly pay of employees. Interpretation No. 9 (concerning the minimum wage for apprentices) Hie minimum wage provisions of the Agreement do not apply to apprentices if under contract with the employer on August 1, 1988, but no one shall be considered an apprentice within the meaning of this Interpretation who has previously completed an apprenticeship in the industry. Interpretation No. 10 (concerning the minimum wage for part time workers) ? The mihimum wage for a part time worker in an employment described in Paragraph 2 of the Agreement is a wage such that if the employee worked at that wage for a full week of 40 hcfurs he would receive the minimum weekly wage prescribed for him by the Agreement. The minimum wage for a part time worker in an em ploy em nt described in Paragraph 8 ofJJie Agreement is the minimum wage per hour prescribed by Paragraph 0 of t^e Agreement. Interpretation No. 11 (concerning maximum hours of store operation) The Agreement imposes no limitation on the maximum hours of operation of a store or 'service. Interpretation No. 12 (concerning employments Included in Paragraph 2) The following are atmong the employments included in Paragraph 2; . Beauty parlor operators, Elevator operators, Restaurant workers, Barbers, Drivers, Janitors, Dish wahsers, Delivery men, Watchmen, Porters, Filling Station operators. Interpretation ^>lo. 13 (concerning paragraph 5) " Immediate trade area" is the area in which there is direct retail competition. In case of question, the decision shall be made by the local Chamber of Commerce . or similar organization subject to review by the State Recover Board. Interpretation No. 14 (concerning owners of stores without employees) Owners operating their own establishments without any employees may obtain the insignia of N. R. A. by signing the Agreement and a certificate of compliance. Interpretation No. 15 (Concerning Paragraph 4) The maximum hours fixed in Paragraphs 2 and 3 of the Agreement do not apply to an employee receiving more than $35 per week and who is acting primarily although not wholly in a managerial or executive capacIty. Interpretation No. 16 (Concerning . non-profit . organizations) Non-profit organizations are considered as employers for the purpose of the Agreement. Interpretation No. 17 (Concerning signing of Agreements) An employer engaged in several different businesses or employing labor of several different classes should sign but one Agreement. Interpretation No. 18 (See also No. 12) (Concerning employments included in Paragraph 2) The following are among the employments included in paargraph 2: Maintenance forces (including charwomen, window cleaners, etc.). Interpretation No. 19 (Concerning professional persons) The following are included arrieiig professional persons within the meaning of Paragraph 4: Newspaper Reporters, Editorial Writers, Rewrite Men and other members of editorial staffs. Internes, Nurss, Hospital Technicians, Research Technicians. Interpretation No. 20 (Concerning Paragraph 7) Supplementing Intrepretation No. 1 Paragraph 7 prevents the reduction of compensation in excess of the minimum, whether it is paid by the 'hour, day, week or month. Therefore, an employee previously paid by the day, week or month will receive as much for the shorter day, week or month. An employee previously paid by the hour will receive as much per hour, but as shortening his hours will reduce his actual earnings -per" day >r week his compensation per hour is to be increased by an-jequitable readjustment. There is no fixed rule which can be applied to determine wha^ is an equitable readjustment. In general, t will be equitable-to figure what the j mployeee would have earned at his previous rate per hour in a normal week in the industry, and then to in".oase the hourly rate so as to give him substantially the same compensation as he would have gotten for 1 r_ ? w . ILI "'i ' ?' - ? -Li., i -in. that normal week. But confidetation must be given to other factors, including: Is the* existing rate high or low compared with the average rate paid in the industry? Will the resulting adjustment result in an unfair competitive advantage to other employers or other trades or industries? Will a long standing wage differential be lost tif there is no increase in the existing rate? (4) Where the employer is bound by the terms of a contract with a labor organuad.i<p\ entered into as the result of bona fide collective bargaining and he is unable to effect a change in such contract by agreement in order to comply with the terms of the President's jReemploymenfrlAgreement, he may certify his compliance with the President's Agreemeut with the following exception: "except as required to comply with the terms of agreement in effect between the undersigned and ,(name of labor organization). < It should be understood that this exception can be made or\ly in the case, of a contract not subject to change at the discretion, of the employer and then only after a certified4 copy of the contract has been filed \yith the National Recovery Administration and its approval has been given to the exceptbo^n stated. After shooting one man to death, critically shooting a second and making an unsuccessful attempt to kill his estranged wife, Wilfred Land at Norton, Kan., committed suicideTaxi drivers of Buenos Aires, Argentina, went on strike as a pro-, test against the arrival there of a large group of wounded German war veterans from Hamburg. Fourteen hundred mill operatives of Rome, Ga., went on a strike Tuesday and several mills there were closed down pending adjustment. The operatives demand increased wages on the shorter hour basis, ? T> ? - Two Meet Dramatic Deaths at Lancaster Two dramatic deaths occurred on Wednesday when William Fvuns Caskins, a loom fixer at the lancaster Cotton Mills, catne to his death through causes not yet determined ami little Nell Thompson, six-yearold daughter of Hoyt Thompson, who resides near North Corner, met death as the result of being struck by lightning. Caskins died about 3 p. m. while working at the local mill whore he was employed as a loom fixer. No one saw him fall but a number of other employees saw him lying on the floor in an unconscious condition. At the request of Coroner Hegler an autopsy was performed by Dr. Plowden of Columbia and he said the autopsy showed nothing that indicated death from natural causes. ^ C. L. Melton, an electrician at the mill said that the motor on the loom on which Caskins was working hail a bearing stuck and that he to^k it otT and had it fixed. He said that he loft Caskins to lino up the motor wnile he attended to another motor. The coroner's jury composed of N. S. Chapman, C. 1). JOvans, W. F. Monts, Will H. Wilson, Bowers with T. O-artor Thomasson as foreman brought in a verdict that the deceased met death in an unnatural manner which was undetermined. ..The other tragedy occurred about D o clock at the Thompson residence: near North Corner. Three children of Mr. Thompson were lyipg on a pallet on the floor of the residence and it is supposed that lightning striking somewhere near the top of the residence came down the chimney and struck the little girl. The ceiling of the room was torn severely by the lightning indicating that the lightning bolt struck the higher part of the building and came downward. Besides the girl who was killed two Gory Election ? For Kentucky Louisville, Ky., Auk. V.?Fourteen slaying*, most of them attributed to quarrels over Saturday's state-wide primary election, occurred over the week end in Kentucky mountain counties. In addition ten were wounded. The total was believed to be ft record for the state. 'Most of the shootings were in isoluted commupi- 3s! ties, uttribute<l by officers either to ? intense feeling over county races, to renewal of old grudges on meeting , at the polls and at least one instance to a quarrel over a liquor deal. The total was increased to 14 by the deaths today of Brown Strong, 54, in Breathitt (County, and Frank Brock, 23, in Bell County. Baby Drowned In Lily Pond :3?|i Dillon, July 31.?James McLeod, 13-months-old, son of Mr. and Mrs. ClitTord McLeod. of lathe View, \yas drowned in a lily pond at the home - Tof hi.s parents Saturday afternoon. The little fellow wasj fond of sitting on the curbing and "watching the llsh at play, but he was always accompanied by a servant or some member of the family. Ho wanI dercd aw#y Saturday afternoon and ! a few minutes after he disappeared ! he was found lying "face downward in the lily pool in 18 inches of water. Life was oxtfihct. "Nira Delano*** is the name given to n new arrival jn the family of Luther Pitman at Selma, N. C. sisters- were sleeping on the pallet s and the one who was killed is said to have been on the outside although rumors have been spread that the child was lying between the two other children.?Lancaster News. 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