Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1943-01-05
CAPITAL TALKS
by
Peter
Edison

HASSA IN VS.
If you have any questions about
/ how the government new wage
slabilization program affects your
individual case as worker or an
employer take your troubles TO the
nearest office of the Wage and
Hour Division. or write them a let
{ ter. There are over 100 of these
Wage and Hour offices scattered
around the country. Your local
postmaster or any Of the 1900 US.
employment Service branches
should know the address OF the OIL
flee closest to you.
The point is, YOU don't have to
write to Washington To get in
formation on how these wage
control rulings affect your ease
and whether or not you're en-
titled to raise. Fright off the
hat, when the Wage Sterilization
Order was signed by the PreSi-
dent on October 8, 1912. it be-
came appa1 ent that this control
over the wages paid to some 30
million workers in over 100000
establishments could not be run
from Washington, so an Organi-
zatisn was set up TO decentralize
operations.
AT Wages and Hour offices you
can get all the forms and infor-
nation needed to file any applica-
ton for any kind of a wage adj
iustment. and Wage and Hour Of
ficials will help fill out the forms.
If the local Wage and Hour Of
flee rules that the application for
a wage increase must be approved
by higher authority, application
will be made to one Of the ten
regional offices of the War Labor
Board. in Boston, New York, Phil
adelphia, Atlanta, Kansas City,
Cleveland, Chicago, Dallas, Denver
and San Francisco. At each OF
these regional WLB offices there
is regional director who will sit
with a regional advisory board OF
II members, four from labor, four
from management and four repre-
senting the public. Each Of the 10
regional directors has power TO act
on any Applicant for wage ad-
iustment in his area.
YOU CAN APPEAL
But suppose the regional director
turns down your application for
raise. You have a right to appeal
within 10 days. The regional dlrec-
tor then appoints panel OF three
from his advisory board. one rep
resentative from the labor group,
one from the management group
and one from the public group, TO
review your appeal II the panel
over,ules the previous finding OF
the regional director, okay, you get
/ the raise.
If the panel rules that your
application should be turned
down, 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 Washing
ton. or the WLB itself can OH its
own initiative ask to have the
record of the case sent to WASH
ington for review, and WLB can,
if it chooses, overrule the panel
and grant the wage increase.
The national War Labor Board
sitting in washington can, in fact,
ovcrrule 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 wage agreement being negotiated
between az employer and his en-
ployers. that case can be submit
ted to the US. Cancellation Service,
which will then attempt to work
out a settlement In case OF IN
ability to cOnciliate, the case may
be certified TO the War Labor Board
in Washington, whose decisions Is
final.
For salaries, meaning paw COM
puted on a weekly, monthly OF
longer period, the pitch is little
different. Control over salaries OF
more than $4,000 a year and the
salaries of executive, adminlstra-
tive or professional workers max
ing less than $4,000 a year and MOI
covered by a union labor contract Is
given to the Commissioner OF In
ternal Revenue in the Treasury De
partment. Guy 7. Helvering.
Similarly, control over farm
wages has been delegated to the
Department of Agriculture. Regu-
lations governing chem will be
with separately, in later articles n
this series.