Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1935-01-31
Code For Retail
Meat Trade Has
!. OK. OF President
Affects Firms Whose Branches
Do More Than so Per Cent
Of Total Sales

The President has approved a
Code for the retail meat trade. 1t
is binding on establishments in
which sales of meats account for
more than 80 percent of the total
sales, the National Industrial Re-
covery Board announced. The
Code became effective December
81, 1884.
A separate schedule amounting
to supplementary Code, was APP
proved for Kosher meat retailers.
Labor provisions of the Retail
Meat Code follow very closely
those of the Retail Food and
Grocery Code. Maximum working
hours are set at 48 hours week,
at minimum wages of $40 to SIS
a week, depending on population,
with a 81 differential in the
South. Managers are exempt from
the maximum hours provisions pro-
vided they receive certain mini
mum salaries, also graded by pop
ulation and region. Overtime al
lowance is made for holiday pc
riods. The schedule for the Kosher
trade establishes minimum wages
of $25 in cities over 100000
and 500 elsewhere for employees
engaged in cutting or preparing
meats for sale, or assisting in
such work. Messenger boys and
delivery boys in the South are not
subject to the minimum wage pro-
visions, but must receive at least
20 percent more than the rate
prevailing June Is, 1888.
The Code contains provisions
making it an unfair trade practice
to misrepresent meat as that for
which definition of identity has
been prescribed by the Depart
ment of Agriculture, and which
Stimulates such a product or fails
to conform to such definition, and
to sell meats which have been kept
in storage below freezing longer
than 80 days except as cold-stor-
age meat. 1t also contains the
standard destructive price cutting
provisions and permission for the
National Industrial Recovery
Board to establish minimum prices
during any emergency found to
exist. These rules, however, were
stayed by the Presidents order of
approval until the same provisions
can be Incorporated in Codes gov
erning the retailing of meat not
covered by this Code.
The letter transmitting the Code
to the President says: "Provis-
ions governing the advertising and
selling methods for the dealers
who will be governed by this Code
should be incorporated in the Code
Of fair competition for the retail
food and grocery trade"
Other trade practice rules, which
are not stayed, prohibit defam-
alton of competitors, commercial
bribery, inaccurate advertising,
false invoicing, enticing employees,
and selling except by net weight
of 16-ounce pounds.
The Presidents order approving
the Code prescribes the constitu-
ton of the Code Authority to adj
minister the Code. 1t is to con-
sist of IL industry members, 2 to
be selected by the board of direc-
tors of the National Association
of Retail Meat Dealers, Inc; 1
by the Federation of Kosher
Butchers of Greater New York,
Inc; / by the National Associa-
ton of Meat, Poultry, and Game
Purveyors, and 2 by the National
Industrial Recovery Board, to rep
resent members of the trade not
affiliated with those organizations.
If any memberships remain un-
filled after 80 days the board may
anuoint renresentatives