Excerpt from Code of Fair Competition for the Mechanical Packing Industry: As Approved on May 14, 1934 By the adoption of the 40 cent minimum rate, per cent Of the male employees will enjoy an increased earning due to the fact that this percentage of male employees was formerly paid less than 40 cents per hour. The minimum of 35 cents per hour for female employees will affect approximately 72 per cent who were formerly paid less than 35 cents per hour. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.