The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1933-07-27
Presidents Re-En1ploynaent
Plan to Mean NelU Jobs in
City;Word Expected Today
May Result in Later Opening,
Earlier Closing at City
Department Stores
WAGES, HOURS SPECIFIED
POstOffice to Issue Posters
to Firms Cooperating
With Drive

Beginning today employers in all
parts of the United States will re-
ceive official notification through the
mails of President Roosevelt's re-em-
ployment drive which begins Tues
day, August 1. Although the postof-
flee here had not received the mater
ial to be distributed in this connec-
ton Wednesday, the office has been
notified that it is coming and it is ex-
pected to be ready for distribution
today.
Included in the material being mail
ed to each employer is blank agree
ment form which the employer signs
to signify he will abide by the presi-
dents regulation as to working hours
and minimum wages. If large per-
centage of Redwood Falls employers
sign, as many have indicated they will
do. 25 or more persons will receive
jobs in this city alone through the
plan. 1t is estimated that 100000
in the United States will be back at
work by Labor day.
eve Do Our PART
With the agreement is an an adj
dressed envelope in which the agree
ment is to be mailed, after it has
been signed and the plan put in effect.
Also with the agreement is certifi-
cate of compliance which is to be
presented at the postoffice where
the cards bearing the insignia of the
unemployment drive and the slogan,
eve Do Our PART" will be issued.
Consumers will also be enlisted to
support only firms that adopt the pro-
gram, information from Washington
indicates. A list of cooperating
firms will be posted in all postoffices.
Briefly the plan to which employers
cooperating must agree is: not to en-
ploy persons under 16 years of age
except that persons between the ages
of IA and Is can be employed three
hours per day except in manufactur-
ing or mechanical industries, provid-
ing such work does not interfere with
school hours.
Not to work sales clerks, bank
clerks, bookkeepers, etc. more than
40 hours in any one week. Hours of
service at stores cannot be reduced
below SO hours per week. Since Red
wood Falls stores are open So to 60
hours a week, this clause may lead
to changes in opening and closing
times.
Not to employ factory or mechan-
ical workers more than IS hours per
week until December 81, except that
they may work 40 hours per week in
any six weeks during this period.
Workers of this class must not be
employed more than eight hours in
any one day.
Managers Exempt
These restrictions shall not apply
to firms in towns of less than $500
population which employ not more
than two persons, to registered phar-
macists, professional persons, to ex-
ccuti7es who receive more than $35
per week, persons on emergency
maintenance or a few other special
cases. In special cases employees
shall be paid time and one-third for
hours worked over the maximum.
In towns of Redwood's size, mini
mum wages shall be $14 per week for
clerks etc. while in towns with less
than $500 population, wages are to
be increased by 20 per cent, except
that this shall not require wages in
excess of SIP per week.
Mechanical workers shall be paid
40 cents per hour as a, minimum .ex-
cept where the rate July Is, 1929 was
below this figure, in which case the
figure on that date shall be the mini
mum except where it was below 80
cents per hour, which will be the abb
solute minimum.
Not to Reduce Pay
Not to reduce the compensation for
employment where it is now in excess
of the minimum, regardless of the
fact that hours are reduced.
Not to use any subterfuge to frus-
trate the intent of the agreement
and at the same time not to increase
prices by more than is absolutely
necessary as result of this act. To
patronize other firms which are fol-
lowing the program; to cooperate in
establishing fair tactics codes for
their industry and to make adjust
ments with manufacturers where
goods are ordered and the price must
be increased to allow for this increase
in expense of production.
Employers on whom the code works
an undue hardship may adopt the
program and in petition approved
by a representative trade organiza-
ton of their industry, apply for an
investigation.