Show MM M I M OIL MARKETING N I SECTION OFFERS I w SEPARATE CODE M lc j w Wants Recognition by Administration Administration Administration Ad- Ad ministration on Independent Inde- Inde 1 pendent Footing f. f mr B Associated Press J Ii WASHINGTON July 21 R 21 og s of ot the marketing section of ot the x oil industry on an independent footing was asked today in a trade plan subr sub sub- r J.- matted to Hugh S. S Johnson Industrial administrator by the independent and individually branded petroleum mar peters association The organization n composed of independent independent in in- dependent sellers ellers of petroleum prod acts in 22 states presented its views as ns the national emergency committee of the industry gathered to go over R If the proposed trade code fixing wages and hours on on which hearings will willIP willa a IP open before belore Johns Johnson m Monday The marketing association proposed its Hs ideas as a supplement to the code of af practices for the petroleum industry industry in in- approved in 1929 by the fed fed- H era eral trade commission w The marketing association asked that w IT The minimum wage scale for mart mar mar mar- o. o division in the south be 12 weekly and 14 in the north with a hour 42 week maximum No petroleum product be sold for tor 7 less than the combined commodity and handling cost The producing transportation on refining refining re re- fining and marketing divisions of the industry be separated and the pipe pipelines pipelines lines segregated An administration advisory committee commit commit- tee of at 28 members selected by the president resident be set up to represent all ranches branches of the industry The proposal also provided that em em- loyes could form unions or join them and be free from coercion of employ employ- err erSt suggested a standardized accounting accounting account account- ing system and asked t tHat at the following following follow follow- ing items be included in figuring a minimum price Cost of material freight taxes operating expenses per unit of ol sale a. a and a pro rata share of ot the general overhead C r. It asked that applying pro profits tits or losses tosses of at one branch of the industry to another be prohibited and urged that the president initiate before belore the commerce comm commission pro- pro proceedings to prescribe regulations con con- trolling rolling g operations and rates of at Pi pipe pipelines 1 lines Ines and md agencies transporting oil by water |