63 STAT.]
81ST CONG. , 1ST SESS. - CH. 736-OCT. 26 , 1949
several States and with foreign nations, to correct and as rapidly as
practicable to eliminate the conditions above referred to in such in-
dustries without substantially curtailing employment or earning
power."
DEFINITIONS
SEC. 3 . (a) Section 3 (b) of such Act is amended to read as follows:
"(b) 'Commerce' means trade, commerce, transportation, transmis-
sion, or communication among the several States or between any State
and any place outside thereof.'
(b) Section 3 (j) of such Act is amended to read as follows:
() 'Produced' means produced, manufactured, mined, handled, or
in any other manner worked on in any State; and for the purposes of
this Act an employee shall be deemed to have been engaged in the pro-
duction of goods if such employee was employed in producing, manu-
facturing, mining, handling, transporting, or in any other manner
working on such goods, or in any closely related process or occupation
directly essential to the production thereof, in any State."
(c) Clause (1) of section 3 (1) of such Act is amended to read as
follows: "(1) any employee under the age of sixteen years is employed
by an employer (other than a parent or a person standing in place
of a parent employing his own child or a child in his custody under the
age of sixteen years in an occupation other than manufacturing or
mining or an occupation found by the Secretary of Labor to be par-
ticularly hazardous for the employment of children between the ages
of sixteen and eighteen years or detrimental to their health or well-
being) in any occupation,".
(d) Section 3 of such Act is further amended by adding at the end
thereof two new paragraphs as follows:
"(n) 'Resale' shall not include the sale of goods to be used in resi-
dential or farm building construction, repair, or maintenance:
Provided, That the sale is recognized as a bona fide retail sale in the
industry.
" (o) Hours Worked.- In determining for the purposes of sections 6
and 7 the hours for which an employee is employed, there shall be
excluded any time spent in changing clothes or washing at the
beginning or end of each workday which was excluded from measured
working time during the week involved by the express terms of or by
custom or practice under a bona fide collective-bargaining agreement
applicable to the particular employee."
ADMINISTRATOR
SEC. 4. Section 4 (a) of such Act is amended by striking out
"$10,000" and inserting in lieu thereof "$15,000".
SPECIAL INDUSTRY COMMITTEES FOR PUERTO RICO AND THE
VIRGIN ISLANDS
SEC. 5. Section 5 of such Act is amended to read as follows:
"SEC. 5. (a) The Administrator shall as soon as practicable appoint
a special industry committee to recommend the minimum rate or rates
of wages to be paid under section 6 to employees in Puerto Rico or the
Virgin Islands, or in Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands, engaged in
commerce or in the production of goods for commerce, or the Admin-
istrator may appoint separate industry committees to recommend the
minimum rate or rates of wages to be paid under section 6 to employees
therein engaged in commerce or in the production of goods for com-
merce in particular industries. An industry committee appointed
under this subsection shall be composed of residents of such island
or islands where the employees with respect to whom such committee
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52 Stat. 1060.
29U. S.C. §203(b).
"Commerce."
52 Stat. 1061 .
29U.S . C . 203(j).
"Produced."
52 Stat. 1061.
29U.S. c. §203(l
(1).
52 Stat. 1060.
29U. S. C. 1203.
"Resale."
Hours worked.
Post, p . 912.
82 Stat. 1061.
29U.S.C. 204(a)
52 Stat. 1062 .
29U.S.C.I205.
Poat, p. 912.
Composition.
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