NAB reports (Mar-Dec 1933)

fifteen dollars per week in any city of over 500,000 population or in the immediate retail trade area of such city; or at less than the rate of fourteen dollars and fifty cents per week in any city of between 250,000 and 500,000 population or in the immediate retail trade area of such city ; or at less than the rate of fourteen dollars per week in any city of between 2,500 and 250,000 population or in the immediate retail trade area of such city; or at less than the rate of twelve dollars per week in any town or place of less than 2,500 population. Population for the purpose of this Code shall be determined by the 1950 Federal Census. (a) Broadcast operators and control men shall be paid at a rate of not less than forty dollars per week when they are employed at any radio broadcasting station classified by the Federal Radio Commission as a clear channel or high-power regional station; or at a rate of not less than thirty dollars per week when they are employed at any broadcasting station classified by the Federal Radio Commission as a clear channel part-time or low-power re¬ gional station, unless such station on July 1, 1933, regularly em¬ ployed not more than three broadcast operators and control men, in which case the rate of pay shall be not less than twenty dollars per week; and at a rate of not less than twenty dollars per week at any broadcasting station classified by the Federal Radio Com¬ mission as a low-power part-time regional, local unlimited, or local part-time station. Employers shall be entitled to employ as ap¬ prentices persons learning the technique of radio broadcasting con¬ trol and transmission. Such apprenticeship within the industry shall not exceed a cumulative period of twelve months. The num¬ ber of persons so employed, if more than one, shall not exceed five per cent of the total number of regular employees of each employer. The rate of pay of apprentices shall be not less than twelve dollars per week. ( b ) Announcers and program production employees shall be paid at a rate of not less than $20 per week, except that where a broadcaster regularly employed not more than ten persons on July 1, 1933, such announcers and program production employees may be paid not less than $15 per week. (c) The minimum rate of pay herein provided shall not apply to outside salesmen working on commission only. 2. Employers agree not to reduce the compensation for employ¬ ment now in excess of the minimum wages hereby agreed to (not¬ withstanding that the hours worked in such employment may be hereby reduced) and to increase the pay for such employment by an equitable readjustment of all pay schedules. Where a State law provides a higher minimum wage than is provided in this Code, no person employed within that State shall be paid a wage below that required by such State law. ARTICLE V General Labor Provisions 1. After the effective date of this Code, employers will not employ any person under sixteen years of age, except that persons under sixteen may be used as talent on programs for not more than three hours per day, and those hours to be such as will not interfere with their schooling. Provided, however, that where a State law provides a higher minimum age, such State law shall be controlling. 2. Employees shall have the right to organize and bargain collec¬ tively through representatives of their own choosing, and shall be free from the interference, restraint, or coercion of employers of labor, or their agents, in the designation of such representatives or in self-organization, or in other concerted activities, for the pur¬ pose of collective bargaining or other mutual aid or protection. 3. No employee and no one seeking employment shall be re¬ quired as a condition of employment to join any company union, or to refrain from joining, organizing, or assisting a labor organiza¬ tion of his own choosing. 4. Employers shall comply with maximum hours of labor, mini¬ mum rates of pay, and other conditions of employment, approved or prescribed by the President. 5. Working conditions in any broadcasting station or network shall not be changed to frustrate the intent and purpose of this Code. Where on November 1, 1933, any broadcaster paid broad¬ cast technicians wages in excess of the minimum herein provided for or worked such employees a lesser number of hours per week than herein permitted, such higher wages and such lesser number of hours shall be deemed to be and are hereby declared to be the minimum scale of wages and maximum number of hours with respect to such stations. 6. Nothing herein contained shall be construed to apply to employees whose rates of wages, hours, and/or weekly full time wages are established by labor agreement, understandings or prac¬ tices now in force, where such minimum rates of pay are higher and the maximum number of hours per week are lower than those set forth herein above. 7. All employers shall post complete copies of this Code in conspicuous places accessible to employees. ARTICLE VI Administration To further effectuate the policies of the Act, a Code Authority is hereby constituted to cooperate with the Administrator in the administration of this Code. 1. The Code Authority shall consist of James W. Baldwin, Isaac Z. Buckwalter, John Elmer, James Kiernan, Alfred J. McCosker, Edward N. Nockels, M. R. Runyon, Frank M. Russell, John Shepard, III, and in addition thereto there may be three members without vote to be appointed by the Administrator, who, together with the Administrator, shall be given notice of and may sit at all meetings of the Code Authority. 2. In order that the Code Authority shall at all times be truly representative of the industry and in other respects comply with the provisions of the Act, the Administrator may provide such hearings as he may deem proper; and thereafter if he shall find that the Code Authority is not truly representative or does not in other respects comply with the provisions of the Act, may require an appropriate modification in the method of selection of the Code Authority. 3. The Code Authority shall investigate the hours of labor and the wages of radio artists and performers (other than musicians), and upon the completion of its investigation shall report thereon to the Administrator. 4. The Code Authority shall investigate the hours of labor, wages, and working conditions of broadcast technicians and the relation thereof to general conditions within the industry, and within a period of ninety days from the effective date of this Code, shall report thereon to the Administrator. 5. As and when any question directly or indirectly affecting any class of employees engaged in the Radio Broadcasting Industry is to be considered by the Code Authority, one representative of such class, selected by the Administrator from nominations made by such class in such manner as may be prescribed by the Adminis¬ trator, shall sit with and become for such purposes a member of the Code Authority with a right to vote. 6. In addition to information required to be submitted to the Code Authority there shall be furnished such statistical informa¬ tion as the Administrator may deem necessary for the purposes recited in Section 3 (a) of the National Industrial Recovery Act. 7. The Code Authority shall recommend to the Administrator a permanent form of organization for the administration of this Code. 8. Members of the broadcasting industry shall be entitled to participate in and share the benefits of the activities of the Code Authority and to participate in the selection of the members thereof by assenting to and complying with the requirements of this Code and sustaining their reasonable share of the expenses of its admin¬ istration. Such reasonable share of the expenses of administration shall be determined by the Code Authority, subject to review by the Administrator, on the basis of volume of business and/or such other factors as may be deemed equitable. 9. Nothing contained in this Code shall constitute the members of the Code Authority partners for any purpose. Nor shall any member of the Code Authority be liable in any manner to anyone for any act of any other member, officer, agent or employee of the Code Authority exercising reasonable diligence in the conduct of his duties hereunder or be liable to anyone for any action or omission to act under the Code, except for his own willful mis¬ feasance or non-feasanse. 10. The Code Authority shall have the following powers and duties in addition to those elsewhere provided in this Code, subject to the right of the Administrator, on review, to disapprove or modify any action taken by the Code Authority. (a) To adopt by-laws and rules and regulations for its procedure and for the administration and enforcement of the Code, in accord¬ ance with the powers herein granted, and to submit the same to the Administrator for his approval together with true copies of any amendments or additions when made thereto, minutes of meetings when held, and such other information as to its activities as the Administrator may deem necessary to effect the purposes of the Act. ( b ) To obtain from members of the industry for use of the Code Authority, for the Administrator in the administration and enforce¬ ment of the Code, and for the information of the President, reports based on such periods as may be determined by the Code Authority as soon as the necessary readjustment within the industry can ■ Page 24 1 ■