Seward daily gateway., 1933-08-07
BLANKET CODE OF
 PRESIDENT BEING
 DISTRIBUTED HERE

DISTRIBUTED HERE
 Every employer in Seward today received a copy of President Roose- velt's blanket code, or the "Presi- d t's Unemployment Agreement" and Certificates of Compliance" in the mail today.
 In an appended notation toI every employer" President Roose- welt states that the agreement isI part of a nationwide plan to raise wages, create employment, a n d thus increase purchasing powerI and restore business. That rlan de- pends wholly on united action by all employers. For this reason ask you, as an employer, to do your part by signing" The President al SO says that If it turns out that the general agreement bears un- fairly on any group of employers they can have that strengthened out by presenting promptly their proposed Code of Fair Competition" :"
 The unemployment agreement IS, authorized by Section 4a of the Ma tional Industrial Recovery Act.
 The Certificate and Agreement are to be signed and delivered to the local postoffice on or after August, 1 and the signing employers will be given their insignia of membership in the Presidents unemployment drive
 Some of the provisions of the ag- reement are: After August 31, 1883, the employer is not to employ any person under 16 years of age, eX- cept that persons between IA and 16 may be employed Out not in manufacturing or mechanical ln- dustries) for not to exceed three hours per day and those hours be- tween ' am, and pm. in such work as will not interfere with hours of day school.
 Not to work any accounting, cler- ical. banking, office, service, or sales employees texcept out si d e salesmen) in any store, office, de- partment, establishment, or public utility, or on any automotive or horse drawn passenger, express, de- livery, or freight service, or in any other place or manner, for more than 40 hours in any one week and not to reduce the hours of any store or service operation to below 52 hours in any one week, unless such hours were less than 52 hours per week before July 1, 1883, and in the latter case not to reduce hours at all.
 Not to employ any factory or me chanical worker or artisan more than a maximum week of 35 hours until December 31, 1853, but with the right to work a maximum week of 40 hours for any six weeks with in this period; and not to employ any worker more than eight hours in any one day.
 The maximum hours fixed in the foregoing paragraphs CD and (3) shall not apply to employees in es- tablishments employing not m r c than two persons in towns of less than 2,50O population which towns are not part of larger trade area nor to registered pharmacists or other professional persons employ ed in their profession; nor to en- |ployees in a managerial or execu- tive capacity, who now receive more than $35 per week; nor to employ ees on emergency maintenance and repair work; nor to very special cases where restrictions of hours of highly skilled workers on con- tinuous process would unavoidably reduce production but, in any such special case, at least time and one third shall be paid for hours worked in excess of the maximum. Popula- tion for the purposes of this ag- reement shall be determined by