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Show Quick Action on Wage Bill Urged by Secretary Perkins CABINET LABOR HEAD MAKES APPEAL WHILE ON SALHAKE VISIT Limit Should Be Placed on Hours at Once, Due to Uncertainty Over Slump, Official Says Uncertainty as to duration or possible extent of the current business recession makes immediate action on national wage and hour legislation imperative, Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins said Friday during a hectic one-day visit to Salt Lake City. "Some limit must be placed on the extent to which hours can b Increased and wage cut," the labor sicri tary said. 'Never again do I want to see pay checks totaling to-taling SI- for SO hours' work aa I did In the depths of the depression." depres-sion." Sh expressed confidence that some action on a minimum wage and maximum hour bill wilh be taken at this session of congress, but explained that sine no one formula can be applied to every industry in-dustry what is needed Is a law making mak-ing possible the fixing of hours and wages by industries. Little more than an hour after her arrival. Secretary Perkins was addressing several hundred business men at the chamber of commerce on th recent marked progress in improving working conditions for labor. Featured event of her visit will be a public address on "Government and Labor" at S p. m. Friday in the West high school auditorium under auspices of Town Hall, sponsored by th First Unitarian Society of Salt Lake City. Remarking bluntly that "predicting "predict-ing was not her business." Miss Perkins declined to comment on prospects of early recovery from the business recession which started in August Factors Cited "Th foreign situation over which wehav no control and the likelihood likeli-hood that th automobile industry cannot equal their boom production of the last year again in the coming year are both unfavorable factors," ahe explained. "This year's large agricultural income, in-come, which will make for a well distributed market, is a favorable factor, however." In ber chamber of commerce address. ad-dress. Secretary Perkins pointed out that th growing understanding on tCeaUnurd from F,it Elgalernl ( Column Thr, Immediate Action on Wage Bill Urged by Secretary of Labor migration and naturalization here Also In ths party were Justice James H. Wolfe of the state supreme su-preme court. Mark Cornaby, president presi-dent of the cleaners and dyers' union in the city, and Mrs. Lence. Only member of her sex ever to hold a presidential cabinet post. Miss Perkins seemed more at ease Friday In conference with business men and labor leaders than in her few snatched moments of social contacts with women. She prefers th simple title of "Miss Perkins for a high school ln!erviewr who addressed Her-is "Madame Secretary" was told. "I loathe that title. Pleas call me Miss Perkins." In private life the labor secretary has been Mrs, Paul C. Wilson for 24 years. She conferred Tuesday afternoon at th horn of Justice and Mrs. Wolf with state industrial commissioners com-missioners and a group of labor leaders. Including Mr. Peterson, Harold G. Cross, secretary of the stat federation; J. W. Wilson, president of th Salt Lake City Federation of Labor: Elmo G.Hall, pruident of the Building Trades council, and others. Mis Perkins sviU leave for Chicago Chi-cago immediately following her Town Hall address. (CoaUnuod from Pass One) th part of employers as to to desirability de-sirability of good working condition, condi-tion, legislation and ths steady growth of trade unions capable of making bargaining agreements with employers all have been factors in improving condition's of labor. Salt Lak City boasts "wonderful "wonder-ful newspapers," Miss Perkins commented com-mented during her luncheon address. ad-dress. "Th papers supplied me at Of -den on my way her this morn- rotary said, and following her formal remarks, on prompting by Charles N. Fehr. chamber president, presi-dent, disclosed that It was Salt Lak City newspaper she was referring re-ferring to. I tan PreJord She praised Utah as a state which has adopted progmaiv labor legislation, legis-lation, and paid tribute, in particular, particu-lar, to William M. Knerr, chairman of th stat industrial commission, as an "extremely good man for th job. She emphasised to her audience of business mem that It is Important that constant attention be given to raising th wages of workers above minimum standards In order to give these workmen an j-D-rt"0 of living. Unless workers are paid enough to enable them to be good consumers, consum-ers, markets will dry up as they did In the depths of the depression. Miss Perkins said. Weloerna Give Bho was met at th Union Pacific depot on her arrival from Chicago by a delegation headed by Governor Henry H. Blood, Mrs. James H. Wolfe, chairman of Town Hall; Paul M. Peterson, president of the Stats Federation of Labor, and M. F. Lence, district director of the labor department's bursau of Im- |