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Show Utah Firms Supply $414,842 Worth Of Materials To U. S. SALT LAKE CITY Supplies and materials valued at $414,842 were furnished for the Federal Government by ten Utah manufacturers manu-facturers and dealers under the Public Contracts Act during the last three months of 1947. it wa.s announced here today by Eugene G, Stacey, who represents the Wage and Hour and Public Contracts Con-tracts Divisions, U. S. Department Depart-ment of Labor, in this state. The principal commodities covered by the contracts included includ-ed wood products and furniture, valued at $105,000, and food and kindred products, valued at $143,988, he said. The figure for the eight western west-ern states shows 'contracts totaling to-taling $125,859,555 for the three-months three-months period, while the national total was given as $452,819,704, Stacey said at his headquarters here, 216 Old Terminal Build-ling, Build-ling, 222 South West Temple. ! The Public Contracts Act, he pointed out, applies to Govcrn-ment Govcrn-ment contracts in amounts over S10,000. Compliance by manufacturers manu-facturers and dealers with the Act's minimum wage, overtime pay, health, safety, child labor and convict labor provisions is checked by inspectors of the Divisions Di-visions working in this state, he said. The Divisions' official stressed the fact that the Act provides for assessments against employers employ-ers at the rate of $10 per day for each day a boy under 16 or a girl under 18 years old is employed em-ployed In filling a Government contract. In some cases of violations, viola-tions, he added, employers may be declared ineligible to receive Government contracts for three years. |
