U.S. Contracts Board Sets Minimum Hourly Pay Washington, Nov. 5. The Federal Public Contracts Board, in accordance with the provisions of the Walsh-Healy act, today recommended that the Secretary o! Labour, Miss Frances Perkins, establish a minimum hourly wage of 62% cents in all steel mills supplying the government with products.
Provisions of the recommendation would effect companies producing 95 per cent, of American iron and steel in 36 states and the District of Columbia. The Board, however, recommended that a 45-cent an hour basic wage be established in southern states.
The Board also recommended further study of the position of smaller companies competing for government contracts, and also the minimum wages paid in tin-plate, mill-block and terne-plate manufacturing establishment. It also recommended ihat companies be permitted to employ apprentices under the basic rates, The Board said that all of the large steel mills pay the 62% cents an hour wage with one exception This apparently referred to Bethlehem Steel which has a wage scale varying from 56% to 60 cents in different sections of the United States.—United Press.
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