Salt Lake Telegram | 1933-04-04 | Page 15 | Thirty Hours Work Measure Change Sought

THIRTY HOURS WORK MEASURE CHANGE SOUGHT I Solons Would Eliminate Certain I tam tain Perishable Products From Its Terms m Br By Associated Press Prell WASHINGTON April 4 4 4 Modification lea lea- tion of the hour 30 week bill to exclude ex cx clude elude certain perishable products was agreed to by sponsors of the legislation legisla tion today as the senate resumed debate debate de de- de bate on the measure Senator Black D. D Ala AlaJ author of the bill said sald he hoped to obtain a vote toda today but senate leaders were not confident the decision could be ber r reached ached so soon At the outset of the debate Senator Borah R R. Idaho announced he would move to strike out the year two limitation in the bill Modification of the bill to exclude canneries was asked by Senator Goldsborough R. R Md who t told ld the senate application of the hour 30 week to canneries would be almost a death deathblow deathblow deathblow blow to one of the biggest industries in Maryland TREMENDOUS TREl LOSS Perishable products must be used at once Goldsborough pointed cut or there is a tremendous loss He contended with canneries running three or four months a year at the most there was not sufficient labor available to operate on short shifts Senator R R. Mich who proposed a similar change yesterday yesterday yes yes- replied that he and Black anc and Senator Dill D. D Wash had agreed on a modification to exclude producers ers of seafood products and fruits and vegetables o of a perishable na na- na a. a ture The bill as reported to the senate by the judiciary committee contains the following broad language That no article or commodity shalbe shall be shipped transported or delivered in interstate or foreign commerce which was produced or manufactured manufacture In any mine quarry mill cannery workshop factory or manufacturing establishment situated in the United States in which any person was employed em em cm- or permitted to work more than five live days in in any week or more than six hours in any day Borah argued that the constitution could not be changed even cven for one hour to meet an emergency without the consent of ot the people and therefore therefore there there- I fore wanted the year two-year limitation I stricken out to remove any implication tion of an emergency Borah said the hilt bill presented the question of how far the supreme cour court may go in excluding commodities from rom Interstate commerce I I presume it will be conceded that tha if we may exclude from Interstate commerce products produced by more than hour 30 labor we may exclude commodities commodities' produced by labor paid wages presumed d to be below a living he lie said saidi wage II