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Show ceiving loss than the minimum wage rates. Specific minim urns for various sections of the country were outlined, out-lined, ranging from 25 cents per hour for unskilled labor in the south to 40 cents an hour for common com-mon labor in the Pittsburgh, Youngstown valley, Clovelamt, Nurih Ohio river, Detroit-Tole.io, Colorado and Chicago district. WAGE RAISED BY STEEL MEN WASHINGTON", July 15 (UP) A code of fair competition for the iron and steel industry, proposing a 40-hour week, elimination of child labor and minimum pay of 25 to 40 cents an hour, was submitted sub-mitted today to the National Industrial In-dustrial Recovery administration. The code, presented by Robert P. Lamont, president of the Iron and .Steel Institute, proposed a 15 I per cent wage increase for all em-I em-I ployes who on July 34 were re- |