The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1933-07-29
PRESIDENTS REINFORCEMENT
AGREEMENT

\AutIlOTl1eQ Dy 0eCLlOu IA NaLlOual
Industrial Recovery Act)
During the period Of the Presidents
emergency unemployment drive, that
is to say, from August to December
81. 1888, or to any earlier date of ap-
proval Of Code of Fair Competition
to which he is subject, the undersign-
ed hereby agrees with the President as
follows:
Cd After August 81, 1888, not to
employ any person under is years of
age, except that persons between IA
and is may be employed (but not in
manufacturing or mechanical indus
tries) for not to exceed hours per
clay and those hours between Z a. m.
and p. m. in such work as will not
interfere with hours of day school.
90 Not to work any accounting,
clerical, banking, office, service, or
sales employees except outside sales
mem in any store, office, department,
establishment, or public utility, or on
any automotive or horse drawn pas
senger, express, delivery, or freight
service, or in any other place or man
ner,, for more than 40 hours in any :
week and not to reduce the hours of
any store or service operation to be-
low 50 hours in any week, unless
such hours were less than 52s hours
per week before July l, 1888, and In
the latter case not to reduce such
hours at all.
CD Not to employ any factory or
mechanical worker or artisan more
than q maximum week Of IS hours
Until December 81, 1888, but with the
right to work a maximum week of 40
hours for any 6 weeks within this Pc
Rod; and not to employ any worker
more than 8 hours in any day.
a. The maximum hours fixed in
the foregoing paragraphs ca and CD
shall not apply to employees in estab-
lishments employing not more than
two persons in towns Of less than $500
population which towns are not part
Of larger trade area; nor to reg
istered pharmacists or other profess
sional persons employed in their pro-
fession; nor to employees in man.
agerial or executive capacity, who now
receive more than $35 per week; nor
to employees on emergency mainten-
ance and repair work; nor to very spe-
cial cases where restrictions Of hours
Of highly skilled workers on continuous
processes 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. Population for the
purposes Of this agreement shall be
determined by reference to the 1880
Federal census.
80 Not to pay any of the classes OF
employees mentioned in paragraph
90 less than SIS per week In any city
Of over 100000 population, or in the
immediate trade area Of such city;
nor less than $145O per week In any
city of between 100000 and 100000
population, on in the immediate trade
area Of such city; nor less than $14
per week in any city Of between $500
and 100000 population, or in the i'm
mediate trade area of such city; and
in towns Of less than $500 population
to increase all wages by not less than
20 per cent, provided that this shall
not require wages in excess OF $f2 per
week.
(6) Not to pay any employee of the
classes mentioned in paragraph 90
less than 40 cents per hour unless the
hourly rate for the same class of work
on July IS, 1929, was less than 10 cents
per hour, in which latter case not to
pay less than the hourly rate on July
Is, 1929, and in no event less than 30
cents per hour. It is agreed that this
paragraph establishes q guaranteed
minimum rate of pay regardless of
whether the employee is compensated
on the basis Of time rate or on a
plecework performance.
% Not to reduce the conpensa-
ton for employment now in excess of
the minimum wages hereby agreed to
notwithstanding that the hours
worked in such employment may be
hereby reduced and to increase the
pay for such employment by an equit-
able readjustment Of all pay sche-
dulles.
co Not to use any subterfuge to
Illustrate the spirit and intent Of this
agreement which is, among other
things to increase employment by q
universal covenant, to remove OBJ
structions to commerce, and to short
en- hours and to raise wages for the
shorter week to living basis.
90 Not to increase the price of
any merchandise sold after the date
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