The Philadelphia Exhibitor (Oct-Dec 1933)

JAY EMANUEL PUBLICATIONS Dec 1 1 33 3c class not connected with the company or theatre of the ineligible member to sit in his place. 10. (a) The Code Authority shall have the right to appoint, remove and fix the compensation of all persons whom it may employ to assist it in any capacity whatsoever in administering this Code. (b) The expenses of the Code Authority in administering this Code shall be budgeted and fairly allocated among the three divisions of the industry and assessed against the respective members thereof who accept the benefits of the activities of the Code Authority or otherwise assent to this Code in such manner as shall be determined by the Code Authority. (c) Any person who shall fail to promptly pay any assessment or levy made pursuant to an order of the Code Authority as an expense in administering this Code shall not be entitled to file any complaint under any Article or PART thereof. ARTICLE III GENERAL PROVISIONS Section 1. (a) Employees shall have the right to organize and bargain collectively through representatives of their own choosing, and shall be free from the interference, restraint, or co¬ ercion of employers of labor, or their agents, in the designation of such representatives or in self-organization or in other concerted activities for the purpose of collective bargaining or other mutual aid or protection ; (b) No employee and no one seeking employ¬ ment shall be required as a condition of employ¬ ment to join any company union or to refrain from joining, organizing, or assisting a labor organization of his own choosing; and (c) Employers shall comply with the maxi¬ mum hours of labor, minimum rates of pay, and other conditions of employment, approved or pre¬ scribed by the President. Section 2. This Code is not designed to pro¬ mote monopolies or to eliminate or oppress small enterprises and shall not be applied to discriminate against them nor to permit monopolies or monopo¬ listic practices. ARTICLE IV LABOR PROVISIONS A. On and after the effective date of this Code, in the PRODUCTION of Motion Pictures: SECTION 1. HOURS OF EMPLOYMENT (a) No employee shall work more than forty (40) hours in any one week. (b) No employee of the following classes shall work more than forty (40) hours in any one week: Accountants ; accounting machine operators ; bookkeepers ; clerks ; firemen ; garage clerks ; gardeners; janitors; librarians; mail clerks; messengers ; mimeograph operators ; porters ; readers ; restaurant workers ; seamstresses ; sec¬ retaries (exclusive of Executives’ secretaries receiving $35.00 or more per week) ; stenogra¬ phers; telephone and telegraph operators; time¬ keepers; typists; and watchmen. (c) No studio mechanic of the following classes shall work more than thirty-six (36) hours in any one week: Artists and sculptors ; automotive mechanics ; blacksmiths ; carpenters ; casters and mouldmakers (staff); cement finishers; chauffeurs and truck drivers; construction foremen (carpen¬ ters); electrical foremen; electrical workers; noormen (electric); foundry men; gaffers; grips ; . laborers lamp operators ; machinists ; marbleizers, grainers, and furniture finishers; modelers (staff) ; model-makers (staff) ; mould¬ ers (metal); operating engineers; ornamental iron workers ; painters ; pattern makers ; plaster¬ ers; plumbers; projectionists (except process projectionists); propertymen ; scenic artists; set drapers ; sheet-metal workers ; sign writers ; sprinkler fitters ; steam fitters ; structural steel workers; swing gang (property); upholsterers; welders and laboratory workers of the following classifications : chemical mixers, negative assem¬ blers and breaker-downs ; negative developers’ assistants, negative notchers, negative splicers, positive daily, assemblers, positive developers’ assistants, positive release splicers, printers, pro¬ cessing and negative polishers, release inspectors, rewinders, sensitometry assistants, shift boss printers and vault clerks. (d) The maximum hours fixed in the foregoing paragraphs (a), (b) and (c) shall not apply to employees on emergency, or maintenance and repair work; nor to cases where restriction of hours of skilled workers on continuous processes would hinder, reduce or delay production; nor to (1) employees in executive or managerial capacities, professional persons, actors (exclu¬ sive of so-called “extras”) ; attorneys and their assistants ; department heads and their assist¬ ants ; directors ; doctors ; managers ; executives, their assistants and secretaries ; professional nurses ; producers and their assistants ; pur¬ chasing agents; unit business managers and writers; nor to (2) employees engaged directly in production work whose working time must necessarily fol¬ low that of a production unit, including art direc¬ tors; assistant directors; cameramen and assist¬ ants; company wardrobe men (women) and assistants; costume designers; draftsmen; make¬ up artists and hairdressers ; optical experts ; positive cutters and assistants; process projec¬ tionists ; script clerks ; set dressers ; “stand-by” or “key-men” ; sound mixers ; sound recorders ; wardrobe fitters ; nor to (3) employees regardless of classification assigned on location work; nor to (4) employees engaged directly in newsreel production work in the following classifications : editors and sub-editors; film cutters and film joiners; type setters; camera men and sound men ; the working hours of news-reel cameramen and soundmen shall be limited to three hundred and twenty (320) hours in any eight week period, to be computed from the time such employees leave their base of operation with their equip¬ ment until the time of their return, or are re¬ quired to remain in a designated place; contact¬ ing and planning shall not be computed as working hours; nor shall this limitation on working hours apply to news-reel cameramen and soundmen who make special trips of a semivacational nature on trains, ships, etc., or who shall be assigned to duty at a summer or winter resort for an extended period of time, nor to news-reel cameramen and soundmen on roving or “gypsy” assignments, nor to (5) employees of producers of animated motion picture cartoons in the following classi¬ fications ; animators ; assistant animators ; car¬ toon photographers ; story and music department employees ; tracers and opaquers ; the working hours of tracers and opaquers shall be limited to forty-four (44) hours in any one week, sub¬ ject to the exceptions made herein in cases of emergency. (e) With respect to those classes of employees specified within sub-division (2) of the foregoing sub-division (d) of this Section 1, (1) such employees employed on an hourly basis or on a daily basis with overtime com¬ pensation shall at the conclusion of any single production be given a full day off without pay for each six (6) hours of work in excess of a thirty-six (36) hour weekly average during the production ; employees employed on a weekly basis whether by agreement in writing or other¬ wise shall not be deemed to be within the pur¬ view of this sub-section (1). (2) art directors, assistant directors, com¬ pany wardrobe men, women and assistants, cos¬ tume designers, draftsmen, make-up artists, hair dressers, optical experts, process projectionists, script clerks, and wardrobe fitters receiving $70.00 or less per week without overtime com¬ pensation, at the conclusion of any single produc¬ tion shall be laid off one full day, without pay, for each six (6) hours of work in excess of a thirty-six (36) hour weekly average during the production period but for each six (6) hours or fraction thereof which each such employee has worked in excess of a fifty-four (54) hour weekly average during said production said em¬ ployee shall receive one full day’s pay. No such employee shall be permitted to work in another studio during the time of such lay-off. SECTION 2. MINIMUM WAGES (a) No employee of any class shall be paid less than forty (40) cents per hour. (b) The following clerical, office and service employees shall be paid not less than fifty (50) cents per hour: Accountants, accounting machine operators ; bookkeepers ; clerks ; file clerks ; firemen ; garage clerks ; readers ; secretaries ; stenographers ; tele¬ phone and telegraph operators ; time-keepers ; typists. (c) No employee of the following classes of studio mechanics shall be paid less per hour than the rates specified for each class : Artists and Sculptors . $1.94 Automotive Mechanics . 1.00 Blacksmiths . 1.16% Carpenters . 1.16% Casters and Mouldmakers (staff) . 1.16% Cement Finishers . 1.16% Construction Foremen (carpenter) . 1.33% Electrical Foremen . 1.33% Electrical Workers . 1.16% Floormen (electric) . 1.00 Foundrymen . 1.16% Gaffers . 1.16% Grips . 1.00 Laborers . 60 Lamp Operators . 1.00 Machinists . 1.16% Marbleizers, Grainers and Fur. Finishers 1.40 Modelers (staff) . 1.94 Modelmakers (staff) . 1.25 Moulders (metal) . 1.16% Operating Engineers . 1.16% Ornamental Iron Workers . 1.16% Painters . 1.16% Pattern Makers . 1.16% Plasterers . 1.25 Plumbers . 1.16 % Projectionists . 1.25 Propertymen (first) . 1.00 Propertymen (second) . 90 Scenic Artists . 2.25 Set Drapers . 1.00 Sheetmetal Workers . 1.16% Sign Writers . 1.66% Sprinkler Fitters . 1.16% Steam Fitters . 1.16% Structural Steel Workers . 1.16% Swing Gang (property) . 75 Upholsterers . 1.10 Welders . 1.16% When any of the above studio mechanics works more than six (6) hours per day on: (1) emerg¬ ency or maintenance or. repair work, or (2) to avoid hindering, reducing or delaying production, he shall be compensated at not less than time and one-half for all overtime in excess of six (6) hours. (d) No employees of the following classes shall be paid less per hour than the rates specified for each class : Assistant Cutters . $1.00 Chauffeurs and Truck Drivers . 83% Laboratory Workers of the following classifications : Chemical Mixers . 70 Negative Assemblers and Breaker-downs .81 Negative Developers’ Assistants . 81 Negative Notchers . 75 Negative Splicers . 70 Positive Daily Assemblers . 75 Positive Developers’ Assistants . 74 Positive Release Splicers . 64 Printers . 81 Processing and Negative Polishers . 70 Release Inspectors . 70 Rewinders . 64 Sensitometry Assistants . 81 Shift Boss Printers . 93 Vault Clerks . 81 Film Loaders . 83% When any of the above employees works more than thirty-six (36) hours in any one week on: (1) emergency or maintenance or repair work; or (2) to avoid hindering, reducing or delaying pro¬ duction, he shall be compensated at straight time for all overtime in excess of thirty-six (36) cumulative hours. (e) With respect to the following classifications there may be substituted a weekly wage in lieu of an hourly wage : Construction -Foreman (carpenter) . $76.75 Electrical Foreman . 76.75 Gaffer . 68.50