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FEDERAL REGISTER, Tuesday, August 1, 1939

containing soap. The survey covered 7,143 wage earners in 72 establishments, representing approximately 50 percent of the total wage earners in the indus try. The survey covered plants located in all of the principal producing States, and it is believed to be sufficiently rep resentative of the wage conditions exist ing in the soap industry.
The only objections filed are to the Boards failure to recommend a toler ance for a group of workers Imown in the industry as light task workers.
The evidence shows that the light task workers constitute a part of the unskilled workers in the industry. The wage distribution of unskilled workers in the industry including the light task workers was considered by the Board in making its findings of fact and rec ommendations in this matter.
The evidence of wages paid in the industry reveals a fairly wide spread of earnings. The effective range is from 32.5 cents to $1.125 with 97 percent of the workers found within these limits.
The wage distribution of unskilled workers in the industry, which workers include the minimum wage employees, is within the same range.
The Board has recommended that I
find th at 40 cents an hour is the pre vailing minimum wage in the soap in dustry. H ie first substantial concentra tion of unskilled workers is in the wage interval between 37.5 and under 42.5
cents, at which point 303 employees out of a total of 3,165, or 9.6 percent of the unskilled workers in the industry, are found. In the 5-cent interval immedi ately below are found 129 employees, or 4.1 percent of the unskilled employees.
The u n sk illed workers receiving less than 32.5 cents are distributed in insignificant concentrations, and I find th at the Boards recommendation as to the pre vailing minimum wage in the industry was proper.
The Board, in its recommendations, was of the opinion th at the data with re spect to the Southern establishments in the industry were insufficient to justify the setting up of a geographical wage dif ferential. The Board recommended that, if Southern firms should in the future be deprived of Government contracts be cause of a wage determination for the soap industry, they be given another opportunity to furnish complete informa tion with respect to the wages paid in this industry in the Southern States for further consideration. I find th at the data with respect to the wages in the South in this industry are insufficient to indicate th at there is any significant difference in the prevailing minimum wage in the South and the rest of the country. If, however, the Southern firms should be deprived of Government contracts because of this wage deter mination, they will be given another op portunity to file complete information
regarding the wages paid in the South for further consideration.
Upon all the evidence submitted in this matter, including the briefs filed, I hereby determine:
That the minimum wages for employees engaged in the performance of contracts with agencies of the United States Gov ernment, subject to the provisions of the Public Contracts Act 49 Stat. 2036; 41
U.S.C. Sup. m 35 for the manufacture or supply of soap in bars, cakes, chips, and flakes, and in granulated, powdered, paste, and liquid forms, and glycerin;
cleansers containing soap, scouring powders, and shaving soaps, and creams containing soap, and washing compounds containing soap, shall be 40 cents an hour, or $16.00 per week of 40 hours, ar rived at either upon a time or piece work basis.
This determination shall be effective, and the m in im u m wages hereby estab lished shall apply to all such contracts, bids for which are solicited on or after August 14, 1939.
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P rances P e r k in s ,
Secretary of Labor.
Dated July 28,1939.
F. R. Doc. 392820; Piled, July 31, 1939;
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Notices DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE.
Division of Marketing and Marketing Agreements.
D eterm ination of t h e S ecretary of A g riculture A pproved b y t h e P resident of th e U n ited S tates W it h R espect to an O rder , as A m ended , R egulating the H andling o f M il k i n th e L a P orte C o u n t y , I ndiana , M arketing A rea
forded an opportunity to be heard on the said proposed amendments; and Whereas, after said hearing and after the tentative approval by the Secretary, on the 30th day of June, 1939, of a marketing agreement, as amended, han dlers of more than 50 percent of the volume of milk covered by such pro posed order, as amended, which is mar keted within the La Porte County, Indi ana, marketing area, refused or failed to sign such tentatively approved mar keting agreement, as amended, relating to milk;
Now, therefore, the Secretary of Agri culture, pursuant to the authority vested in him by said act, hereby determines:
1 That the refusal or failure of said handlers to sign said tentatively ap proved marketing agreement, as amend ed, tends to prevent the effectuation of the declared policy of the act;
2 That the issuance of the proposed order, as amended, is the only practical means, pursuant to such policy, of ad vancing the interest of producers of milk which is produced for sale in said area;
and 3 That the issuance of the proposed order, as amended, is approved or fa vored by over two-thirds of the producers who participated in a referendum con ducted by the Secretary, and who, dur ing the month of April, 1939, said month having been determined by the Secrei tary to be a representative period, were ; engaged in the production of milk for sale in said area.
In witness whereof, Harry L. Brown, Acting Secretary of Agriculture of the United States, has executed this deter mination in duplicate, and has hereunto set his hand and caused the official seal of the Department of Agriculture to be affixed hereto in the city of Washington, District of Columbia, this 28th day of July 1939.
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H arry L. B rown , Acting Secretary of Agriculture.
Approved:
F r anklin D R oosevelt The President of the United States.
Dated July 28, 1939.

Whereas, the Secretary of Agriculture, pursuant to the terms and provisions of Public Act No. 10, 73d Congress, as amended, and as reenacted and amended by the Agricultural Marketing Agreement Act of 1937, having reason to believe th at execution of an amend Filed, July 31, 1939;
ment to a tentatively approved market P. R. Doc. 39-2813;
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ing agreement, as amended, and issu ance of an order, as amended, both of which regulate the handling of milk in Farm Security Administration.
the La Porte County, Indiana, marketing Adm inistration Order 231, Revision 3 1
area, would tend to effectuate the de clared policy of the act, gave, on the D eterm ination o f the E quitable D istri 18th day of May, 1939, notice of a public b u t io n of F unds A ppropriated for the hearing 1 to be held on the 23d day of F iscal Y ear E nding J u n e 30, 1940, May, 1939, a t La Porte, Indiana, on P ursuant to T itle I of the B ankheadproposed amendments of said tentatively J ones F arm T enant A ct approved marketing agreement, and of J u l y 21, 1939.
said order, and on May 23 and 24 and I.
Pursuant to the provisions of Sec a t said place conducted a public hearing at which all interested parties were aftion 4 of Title I of the B a n k h e a d - Jones 14 FJEl. 2076 DI.

1 Supersedes AO 231, Rev. 2, 4 F.R. 2080 DI.