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Show Food and Grocery Retail Dealers Will Have to Obey Fair Practice Agreements Food and grocery retailers will be obliged to comply with the provisions pro-visions of the code of fair competition compe-tition approved for their trade effective ef-fective January 0, was the information inform-ation received from Washington this week by E. Tilden Mattox, NRA District Compliance Director Thc approved cede embodies the same labor provisions for the retail re-tail food and grocery trade as the ones which have been in effect since November 22, last year. Certain retail food markets have putf orth the statement that they need no longer cimply with the labor la-bor provisions as they were originally origi-nally drafted prior to the adoption of a complete code. All retail food and grocery establishments, exiepl restaurants, delicatessen store i, confectioners and dairy stores engaged en-gaged hi delivery of milk on regular reg-ular routes, are warned that th3 District Compliance Director will receive complaints under the new's approved final code and every effort ef-fort will be made to eirect 100 p'.-i cent compliance with the code. The labor provisions of the cod" call for a 48 hour week of not more than 10 hours per day, and n'jl more than 6 days per week. Executives Execu-tives drawing more than $35.00 per week In larger cities, to $25.00 per week in the smallest communities are exempted from these hour provisions. pro-visions. Basic wage scales rang" from $15.00 per week in larger cities to not less than $10.00 per week In the smallest communities. This latest code Is only one of 181 approved by the NRA to date, affecting some 20,000,000 workers. The Administration is faced with the problem of putting 4,000,000 more workers in Jobs during January Jan-uary through the approval of additional addi-tional codes. It is anticipated that all Industries will be covered by codes, of fair competition within the next few months. |