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the maximum hours time and one-half
the regular rate must be paid.
Industry Committees
The Act creates a Wage and Hour
Division in the U. S. Department of
Labor, which is under the direction of
an Administrator. BY appointment of
the President, Elmer, F. Andrews,
former State Industrial Commissioner
of New York, serves as the Admins
traitor of the Wage and Hour Divis-
ion.
The Administrator is required to ap
point an industry committee "for each
industry engaged in commerce or in
the production of goods for COM
merce." These committees, consisting
of an. equal number of representatives
Of the public, the employees and the
employers in the respective industries,
are: required to make survey of in
dustrial conditions and file recon-
mendations with the Administrator as
to the highest minimum wage, not to
exceed the 40 cent rate fixed as the
ultimate goal, which the committees
believe the industries can pay. The
Administrator is empowered to take
the necessary procedure for the ap-
plication of the recommended rates.
The orders of the Administrator are
subject to review in the U. S. Circuit
Court of Appeals for the appropriate
district. The Court is authorized to
modify the orders or set them aside
in whole or in part.
Administrator Andrews has already
appointed an industry committee for
the textile industry, in which about
100000 workers are employed.
$4,000 Fine For Violators
Under the penalties the Act provides
or offer for transportation goods pro
duced in violation of the wage and
hour provisions, with a fine of not
more than $4,000, or Imprisonment
for not more than six months, or both
fine and Imprisonment, for any per-
son or firm found guilty Of such vio-
lation. The Imprisonment penalty is
In addition, civil action may be
brought by employees who have been
paid less than the minimum wage or
who have not been paid overtime for
work in excess Of the maximum hours.
The Act authorizes such employees to
recover the amount due them, plus
an additional equal amount as liqui-
ho al .,f
reasonable attorneys fees and costs.
Workers Exempted From Both Wage
and Hour Provisions
There are many exemptions, in
whole or part from the Fair Labor
Standards Act. The following are ex-
empted from all minimum wage and
maximum hour restrictions:
Bona fide executives, those employ
ed in administrative, professional or
local retailing capacity, or as outside
statesmen.
Those engaged in any retail or serv-
ice establishment the great part of
whose selling or servicing is in intra-
state commerce.
Seamen.
Employees Of air carriers.
Those employed in catching, taking
harvesting, cultivatlng or farming all
fish, seafood, sponges, seaweed, etc.
also those employed in the loading, un-
loading or packing Of such products
for shipment or in processing, market
ing, freezing, canning, curing, storing
or distributing of these products or OF
their by-products.
Those employed in agriculture. Gag
rculture includes farming in all its
branches, dairying and the production
of agricultural commodities, the rails
ing of livestock, poultry, bees or fur
bearing anmals.)
Learners, apprentices and handi-
capped workers, but only to the eX-
tent exempted by orders or regu-
lations of the Administrator.
Those employed in connection with
the publication of weekly or semi
weekly newspapers with circulation
of less than 5000 where the major
part of such circulation is within the
county where the newspaper is print
ed or published.
Employees Of street railways or To-
cal trolley or motor bus carriers.
Anyone employed within the area
of production Gas defined by the Ad-
ministrator) in handling, packing,
storing, ginning, compressing, pas
teurzing, drying, preparing in their
raw or natural state, or canning of
agricultural or horticultural commodi-
ties for market or in making cheese
or butter or other dairy products.
In addition, the Act completely eX-
cmpts from maximum work week
regulations workers employed
In the first processing Of milk,
whey, skim milk, or cream into dairy
products; t
In the ginning and compressing of
cotton;
In the processing of cotton seed;
In the processing Of sugar beets
sugar beet molasses, sugar cane OF
maple sap into sugar (but not refined
sugar. or into syrup;
As drivers Of trucks or busses oper-