The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-01-06

I ton to get information on how these wage control rulings affect your case and whether or not you're entitled toC a \raise. Right of the bat, when the Wage Stablization Order was signed by the President on Oct. 3, 1942, 1t became apparent that this control over the wages paid to some 30 million workers in over 300,000 establishments could not be run from Washington, so an organiza- ton was set up to decentralize oper- ations. ... .
 At Wage and Hour offices you can get all the forms and information needed to file any application for any kind of a wage adjustment, and Wage and Hour officials will help fill out the forms. s
 If the local Wage and Hour office rules that the application for wage increase must be approved by higher authority, application will be made to one of the 10 regional offices of the War Labor Board, in Bston, New York, Philadelphia, Atlanta, Kansas City, Cleveland, Chicago, Dallas, Denver and San Francisco. At each of these regional VILE offices there is a regional director who will sit with regional advisory board of 12 members, four from la bor, four from management, and four representing the public. Each of the 10 regional directors has power to act on any application for a wage adjustment in his area. | M
 YOU CAN APPEAL
 But suppose the regional director turns down your application for a raise. You have a right to appeal within 10 days. The regional director then appoints panel of three from his advisory board, one representa- tive from the labor group, one from the management group and one from the public group. to review your appeal. If the panel overrules the previous finding of the regional di- rector, okay, you get the raise. If the panel rules that your ap- PAASubAOAA oAAOuAN UC OuIk1Cu OOWA, there isn't much you can do about it. Any one member of the panel can recommend that the finding be referred to the War Labor Board in Washington, or the VILE itself can on its own initiative ask to have the record of the case sent to Washington for review, and VILE can. if it chooses, .overrule the panel and grant the wage increase.
 The national War Labor Board sitting in Washington can, in fact. overrule and reverse any finding made by any regional director any finding made by any panel SETTLEMENT OF DISPUTES
 In case, there is, any dispute over a a wage agreement being negotiated between an employer and his em- ployes. that case can be submitted to the U. S. Consolidation Service, which will then attempt to work out settlement. In case of inability to conciliate. the case may be certified to the War. Labor Board in Wash- ington, whose decision is final.
 For salaries, meaning pay com- puted on weekly, monthly or lon- ger period, the pitch is 6 little dif- ferent. Control over salaries of more than $5,000 a year and the salaries of executive. administrative or pro- fessional workers making less than | 1000 a year and not covered by union labor contract is given to the Commissioner of Internal Re- venue in the Treasury Department, Guy T. Helvering.
 Similarly. control over farm wages has been delegated to the Depart- ment of Agriculture. Regulations governing them will be dealt with separately, in later articles in this series.