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viii total, the wage ana hour AcC
provisions will be responsible for
100000 of it. The Division is un
able to estimate the increase to pay
rolls due to payment Of time and
half for overtime.
To date sixteen minimum wage
orders have been established on rec
concentrations of industry committees.
Those 16 industries employ 3,185,OCO
workers, of whom COL 600 were being
paid a wage lower than that estab-
Iished for their industry and have
received wage increases.
Much Of the report is devoted to
impressing on Congress the import
ance of continuing and improving |
good labor relations while the Nations
defense resources are being mobilized.
1t recounts labor relations difficulties
after the declaration of war in April,
| 1917. The Bridgeport Metal Workers
case is cited, where despite agreed-on
arbitration, subsequent strikes occur
red until President Wilson reprimand-
ed the workers publicly in an open
letter threatening to blacklist those
who did not report back to work. Con-
gress is also reminded of the Smith
and Wesson incident when that vital
arms manufacturing concern at
Springfield, Massachusetts, operating
under "yellow dog" labor contracts,
refused to bargain collectively with
representatives of the workers. When
the strike which developed affected the
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company still refused to accept the
bargaining principle, the War Depart
ment commandeered the plant and put
It's own representatives in charge.
"The outlook of those administering
labor legislation in Nazi Germany diff
fered from that of the French admin
istration," the survey conducted by the
Wage and Hour Division reported.
'In France, the policy to achieve i'm
proved conditions for the workers,
with little regard for the effect on
production. In Germany, the policy
vas to increase production with little
regard for the welfare of the work
ars. But even in Germany the gov
ernment had to hesitate when the
health of the workers was menaced."
After presenting the results of the
survey of war labor policies the re-
port tells Congress: "The Divisions
, ,ontnued study of war labor expert
. . ance, it is hoped, will serve to pro-
, .ect the nation against hasty or i'll
considered conclusions regarding the
existence or effect of labor policies in
England, France, Germany, Russia or
any other country"
: Again the Administrator of the
Wage and Hour Division makes no
specific recommendation to Congress
for further legislation. The Act pro-
vides that the Administrator in his
l. Annual report to Congress, "shall in
: clude such recommendations for fur
ther legislation as he may find it ad-
Il visable." His present report says:
The Administrator is not prepared
= 1T this time to make recommendations
Il for additional legislation. Many fun
lamental changes recently have been
I made in the regulations, which it is
Z hoped will eliminate certain Difficult
ties in administration encountered in
{ the past. Pending further experience
t in the administration and further
I study Of the effects of the Act, it is
y not possible at this time to foretel
Il whether amendments will prove neces,
e sary.
II "The social and economic setting
{ m which the act functions had under
gone significant change within the
! period covered by the present report
I During the first half of 1910 there
Is was considerable improvement il
, business, which was continuing a!
l. this was written.
''The income from non-farm source!
for the farm population constitutes
!, !, an important supplement to the family
II income. The 1885 Census of Agricul
10 ture shows that in 1884 more thai
. 100000 farm operators reported
part time work for pay off theiI
" farms, with an average employment
. of 81 days. Thus nearly a third o.
.hc farm operators in United State!
were engaged in gainful work off thei
farms in 1884 for part of the year
! with the bulk Of those employed il
- non-agricultural occupations. In addi
! tion members of the operators fami
p" lies engage in non farming activities
- The maintenance Of the Acts provis
~, ions in industries or occupations usual
" available to members Of farm familie
directly contributes to their welfare.
:, "rhc data presented above substan
~ tate in a broad way the fact that th'
~ act in its present form has not hac
- any adverse influence on farm econ
81. omy. A discussion Of the Relationship
~ Of the Fair Labor Standards Act t,
~ agriculture would not be complete
-, without pointing out that the act ex
!. crts a beneficial influence upon tn,
" economic well-being of farmers ant
~, farm families
~ 'Thcre are other ways also in whicl
!, the act has a beneficial influence upon
., our farm popuation-ways whicl
: cannot be so readily measured, bu
which npNpFt hplpSS AFRO of dirprt i'm