AMERICAN INDUSTRY
CONTROL BY STATE DRASTIC PROPOSALS (Elcc. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) (Received April 19, 3 p.m.) WASHINGTON, April 18. Unprecedented Federal control of production by industry will be permissablo under amendments to the five-day week bill proposed to the House Labor Committee by Miss Frances Perkins, Secretary of Labor. Besides production control, Miss Perkins also suggested the inclusion of a minimum wage provision.
Committee members said production and control was suggested as a means of equalising the hours of industry and preventing any one concern obtaining a virtual monopoly. Any plant, under tiie general terms of the five-day week hill, it was pointed out, could run 24 hours per day by employing four six-hour shifts. Another plant less fotrunately situated as to available workers might have to reduce production us well as hours of labor.
The amendment suggested by Miss Perkins would let a new Federal board decide how many hours per week each manufacturer was entitled equitably to operate his plant.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18067, 19 April 1933, Page 11
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