Evening star., 1940-06-03
Minimum PAY
Law for Women
To Be Studied
Modernizution Act
Will Be Attempted
Before Adjournment
BY JAMES E. CHINN.

Inc House DlStrlcJ COmmlttee De.
cided today that despite the pros
pective adjournment of Congress in
the next several weeks it would at
tempt to rush through legislation to
modernize the minimum wage law
for women.
A bill to increase the authority of
the Minimum Wage Board and ex-
tend the 8-hour law to certain
groups of employed women not COW
cred by the present law was referred
to the Judiciary Subcommittee with
request for quick public hearings.
Immediately, Representative Nc
Gehee, Democrat of Mississippi,
chairman of the subcommittee, called
hearing Wednesday at 10 am.
Six d. c. Bills Reported.
The committee also ordered fav-
orable reports on six bills, the first
, three of which already have passed
the Senate:
S. 2013, providing for the or
ganization and incorporation of CO.
operative associations in the Dis
trict.
S. 1860 placing former Policeman
Amos B. Cole on the Police Depart
! ments retirement list.
S. 1923, Tightening existing law
regulating the engineering profess
sion.
H. R. 9907, providing that the
recorder of deeds shall have a rep
resentative in the Office of the
director of vehicles and traffic to
record and release automobile liens.
/ H. R. 9939, allowing Mrs. Elizabeth
K Peoples, an administrative prin-
cipal in the public schools, to pur-
chase credit in the teachers retire.
. ment fund.
One not yet numbered designed
to decrease the interest rate on Dis
trict loans from the P. w. A. from
to about per cent.
Boundary Bill to Subcommittee.
A bill introduced last week by
Chairman Randolph which would
settle the century-old boundary dis
pute between the District and Vir-
ginia was referred to special sub
committee for public hearings. Rep
resentatives Hunter, Democrat, of
Ohio. and Bolles, Republican, of
Wisconsin constitute the subcom-
mittee.
The measure provides that the
boundary line be fixed at the present
mean high water mark on the Vir-
ginia shore of the Potomac. The high
water mark existing in 1891 has been
held previously to be the boundary.
Since then, however, there have
been number of cuts and fills
which changed the mean high water
mark
Proposed by Board.
Legislation revising the eight
hour law for employed women was
proposed by the Minimum Wage
Board and has the approval of the
Commissioners. A proposal that it
Dc IelcIIeu UO SuDCOHlIIlllJee lUl
hearings at first met the objection
of Arthur Schoenthal, an employe
representative on the board, who
expressed a fear that such a move
might delay action at this session
of Congress. Representative Nc
Gehee, however, allayed his fear by
calling a hearing for Wednesday.
The Washington Board of Trade,
the Merchants and Manufacturers
Association and a number of other
organizations have urged that hear
ings be held before the committee
passes on the bill
Absence from Washington of Rep
resentative Eberharter, Democrat.
of Pennsylvania, who served as
chairman of a special subcommit-
tee which investigated the liquor
control situation, delayed action on
the subcommittee report, which
was completed last week Repre-
sentatives of liquor interests were
present at the meeting, expecting
the report to be made public.