Voglio sapere a riguardo di…

VOLUME 8

1934

J r n D

NUMBER 71

Washington, Saturday, April 10, 1943
The President
Director, from making such readjust ments in price relationships appropriate for various commodities, or classes, qualities or grades thereof or for seasonal EXECUTIVE ORDER 9328
variations or for various marketing S tabilization of W ages, P rices, and areas, or from authorizing such support S alaries , prices, subsidies or other inducements as By virtue of the authority vested in me may be authorized by law and deemed by the Constitution and the statutes, necessary to maintain or increase pro and particularly by the First War duction, provided that such action does Powers Act, 1941, and the Act of not increase the cost of living. The October 2, 1942, entitled An Act to power, functions and duties conferred on Amend the Emergency Price Control Act the Secretary of Agriculture under sec of 1942, to Aid in Preventing Inflation, tion 3 of the Emergency Price Control and for Other Purposes, as President of Act of 1942 Public Law 421, 77th Cong.
and under section 3 of the Act of October the United States and Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy, and in order 2, 1942 Public Law 729, 77th Cong. are to safeguard the stabilization of prices, hereby transferred to, and shall be ex wages and salaries, affecting the oost of ercised by the Food Administrator.
2. The National War Labor Board, the living on the basis of levels existing on September 15, 1942, as authorized and Commissioner of Internal Revenue and other agencies exercising authority con directed by said Act of Congress of Octo ber 2,1942, and Executive Order No. 9250 ferred by Executive Order No. 9250 or of October 3, 1942,1 and to prevent in Executive Order 9299 2 and the regula creases in wages, salaries, prices and tions issued pursuant thereto over wage profits, which, however justifiable if or salary increases are directed to au viewed apart from their effect upon the thorize no further increase in wages or economy, tend to undermine the basis of salaries except such as are clearly neces sary to correct substandards of living, stabilization, ind to provide such regula tions with respect to the control of price, provided that nothing herein shall be construed to prevent such agencies from wage and salary increases as are neces making such wagrf or salary readjust sary to maintain stabilization, it is here ments as maj be deemed appropriate by ordered as follows:
1.
In the case of agricultural com and may not have heretofore been made modities the Price Administrator and the to compensate, in accordance with the Administrator of Food Production and Little Steel Formula as heretofore de Distribution hereinafter referred to as fined by the National War Labor Board, the Food Administrator are directed, for the rise in the cost of living between and in the case of other commodities the January 1, 1941 and May 1, 1942. Nor Price Administrator is directed to take shall anything herein be construed to immediate steps to place ceiling prices on prevent such agencies, subject to the general policies and directives of the all commodities affecting the cost of liv Economic Stabilization Director, from ing. Each of them is directed to author ize no further increases in ceiling prices authorizing reasonable adjustments of except to the minimum extent required wages and salaries in case of promotions, by law. Each of them is further directed reclassifications, merit increases, incen immediately to use all discretionary tive wages or the like, provided that such powers vested in them by law to prevent adjustments do not Increase the level of further price increases direct or indirect, production costs appreciably or furnish to prevent profiteering and to reduce the basis either to increase prices or to prices which are excessively high, unfair resist otherwise justifiable reductions in or inequitable. Nothing herein, how prices.
3. The Chairman of the War Man ever, shall be construed to prevent the Food Administrator and the Price Ad power Commission is authorized to forbid ministrator, subject to the general policy the employment by any employer of any directives of the Economic Stabilization 17 F.R. 7871.

8 F.R. 1669.
Contini ed on next page
CONTENTS
THE PRESIDENT
E xecutive O rders:

Page
California land containing oil and gas deposits; transfer of jurisdiction from War Department to Interior De partment________________ 4683
Congested production areas;
establishment of Commit tee-------------------4683
Office of Alien Property Custo dian; p a y m e n t of ex penses__________________ 4682
Stabilization of prices, wages, and salaries______________ 4681
REGULATIONS AND NOTICES
B oard of E conomic W arfare :

Shipment of licensed exports to other American republics;
application procedure_____ 4704
Civil A eronautics B oard:

Airline transport pilot rating;
periodic physical examina tions____ l ______________

4692

Coast G uard :

Approvaljof equipment; marine engineering materials dur ing emergency___ _____
4735
War vessels; conditional waiv er of manning require ments__________________
4736
Customs B ureau:

Puerto Rico-U. S. Merchandise transportation ; w a i v e r of coastwise laws________
F ood
D istribution tion :

4735

A dministra
Handling of milk; marketing areas:
Omaha-Council Bluffs, Nebr.lowa--------------------------- 4684
Sioux City, Iowa____________ 4688
Virgin Islands, 1944 sugarcane production; determination of farming practices_____ 4684
F ood P roduction Administration:

Fertilizer, chemical nitrogen FPO 5, Dir. 2 ____________ 4692
G eological S urvey :

Oil and gas unit plan; proposed regulations______________
Continued on next page
4681

4736