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N.R,.L.D.A. OPPOSES EXTENSION OF THE WAGE.HOUR, tAW TO R,ETAIL BUITDING M'\TERIALS OUTTETS

In testimony before the Labor Standards Subcommittee of the llouse Education and Labor Committee, a representative of the National Retail Lumber Dealer Association strongly opposed any extension of the existing Federal Wage-Hour Law to building materials dealers who are now exempt.

Speaking on the Roosevelt Bill (H.R. 4488), Boyd Mahin, labor consultant for NRLDA on legislative matters, told the Sub-committee that the proposed legislation would bring practically all retail lumber dealers under federal wage-hour control even though their business is purely local in nature. Such coverage, he explained, would seriously impair retail service to the detriment of the public and the industry.

The NRLDA statement showed clearly that the retail lumber industry was not a low-wage industry, pointing out that average hourly earnings by employes was about $1.90 per hour-an average of $80.00 per week. Such earnings, Mr. Mahin said, are higher than in many manufacturing industries.

The principal points made in the NRLDA testimony are these :

1. Extension of the Wage-Hour Law to retailing is an unjustifiable invasion of local affairs by the federal government, and goes far beyond the regulation of Interstate Commerce.

2. The pending bill would bring nearly all retail lumber dealers under the law. The proponents contend that they only want large retail firms to be covered under the Wage- Hour Law (those doing over $500,000 or $750,000 annually). However, there are other provisions in the bill which would bring thousands of smaller retail lumber dealers under the law.

Hove You Been Counted?

There were 34,867 retail lumber yards and building materials dealers in the U. S. in 1958, an increase of L6/o over the 30,1?7 in 1954, according to CensUs Bureau figures just released, and reported by The Lumber lJetter of the National Lumber Manufacturers Assn. Retail sales of all building materials in 1958 totaled $7 billion, or 70Vo higher than the 1954 figure. Some 2L2,456 employes were listed by the dealers, while payrolls in 1958 amounted to 9835 million.

(a) Enterprises having sales to customers engaged in mining, manufacturing, transportation, commercial or communications business amounting to $50,000 annually.

(b) An enterprise doing $50,000 of business where one or more employes are engaged in commerce (such as receiving and handling shipments from outside the state).

(Enterprise means a total operation-not just one yard if more than one is owned by the same company.)

3. To place local retail lumber dealers under a 4O-hour r,r'eek with time-and-a-half for overtime would be completely unrealistic because lumber yards must adjust their hours to contractors, farmers and others in the community. Also, most retail lumber yards find it necessary to remain open on Saturday to accommodate their customers. Even labor unions have traditionally recognized that a 4O-hour week with overtime pay after 40 hours is impractical in this industry. Most union contracts with retail yards are lor 44,48 or more hours a week.

Pete Conner has been named office manager of the retail industrial truck division in San Francisco of Hyster Co. Conner was supervisor of the machine order section at Portland. Ore., before moving to Danville.