facie evidence that such employee was engaged in the production of such goods.

PENALTIES

SEC. 16. (a) Any person who willfully violates any of the provisions of section 15 shall upon conviction thereof be subject to a fine of not more than $10,000, or to imprisonment for not more than six months, or both. No person shall be imprisoned under this subsection except for an offense committed after the conviction of such person for a prior offense under this subsection.

(b) Any employer who violates the provisions of section 6 or section 7 of this Act shall be liable to the employee or employees affected in the amount of their unpaid minimum wages, or their unpaid overtime compensation, as the case may be, and in an additional equal amount as liquidated damages. Action to recover such liability may be maintained in any court of competent jurisdiction by any one or more employees for and in behalf of himself or themselves and other employees similarly situated, or such employee or employees may designate an agent or representative to maintain such action for and in behalf of all employees similarly situated. The court in such action shall, in addition to any judgment awarded to the plaintiff or plaintiffs, allow a reasonable attorney's fee to be paid by the defendant, and costs of the action.

INJUNCTION PROCEEDINGS

SEC. 17. The district courts of the United States and the United States courts of the Territories and possessions shall have jurisdiction, for cause shown, and subject to the provisions of section 20 (relating to notice to opposite party) of the Act entitled "An Act to supplement existing laws against unlawful restraints and monopolies, and for other purposes", approved October 15, 1914, as amended (U. S. C., 1934 edition, title 28, sec. 381), to restrain violations of section 15.

RELATION TO OTHER LAWS

SEC. 18. No provision of this Act or of any order thereunder shall excuse noncompliance with any Federal or State law or municipal ordinance establishing a minimum wage higher than the minimum wage established under this Act or a maximum workweek lower than the maximum workweek established under this Act, and no provision of this Act relating to the employment of child labor shall justify noncompliance with any Federal or State law or municipal ordinance establishing a higher standard than the standard established under this Act. No provision of this Act shall justify any employer in reducing a wage paid by him which is in excess of the applicable minimum wage under this Act, or justify any employer in increasing hours of employment maintained by him which are shorter than the maximum hours applicable under this Act.

SEPARABILITY OF PROVISIONS

SEC. 19. If any provision of this Act or the application of such provision to any person or circumstance is held invalid, the remainder of the Act and the application of such provision to other persons or circumstances shall not be affected thereby.

Approved, June 25, 1938.

[PUBLIC-No. 344-76TH CONGRESS]

[CHAPTER 605-1ST SESSION]

[S. 1234]

AN ACT

To amend section 13 (a) of the Act approved June 25, 1938 (52 Stat. 1069), entitled "Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938".

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 13 (a) of the Act approved June 25, 1938 (52 Stat. 1069), entitled the "Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938", be, and the same is hereby, amended by adding a new subsection 11 as follows: "or (11) any switchboard operator employed in a public telephone exchange which has less than five hundred stations".

Approved, August 9, 1939.

(355)

76573-61-24

[PUBLIC NO. 739-75TH CONGRESS]

[CHAPTER 697-3D SESSION]

[S. 2819]

AN ACT

To create a Committee on Purchases of Blind-made Products, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there is hereby created a Committee to be known as the Committee on Purchases of Blind-made Products (hereinafter referred to as the "Committee") to be composed of a private citizen conversant with the problems incident to the employment of the blind and a representative of each of the following Government Departments: The Navy Department, the War Department, the Treasury Department, the Department of Agriculture, the Department of Commerce, and the Department of the Interior. The members of the Committee shall be appointed by the President, shall serve without additional compensation, and shall designate one of their number to be chairman.

SEO. 2. It shall be the duty of the Committee to determine the fair market price of all brooms and mops and other suitable commodities manufactured by the blind and offered for sale to the Federal Government by any non-profit-making agency for the blind organized under the laws of the United States or of any State, to revise such prices from time to time in accordance with changing market conditions, and to make such rules and regulations regarding specifications, time of delivery, authorization of a central non-profit-making agency to facilitate the distribution of orders among the agencies for the blind, and other relevant matters of procedure as shall be necessary to carry out the purposes of this Act: Provided, That no change in price shall become effective prior to the expiration of fifteen days from the date on which such change is made by the Committee.

SEC. 8. All brooms and mops and other suitable commodities hereafter procured in accordance with applicable Federal specifications by or for any Federal department or agency shall be procured from such non-profit-making agencies for the blind in all cases where such articles are available within the period specified at the price determined by the committee to be the fair market price for the article or articles so procured: Provided, That this Act shall not apply in any cases where brooms and mops are available for procurement from any Federal department or agency and procurement therefrom is required under the provisions of any law in effect on the date of enactment of this Act, or in cases where brooms and mops are procured for use outside continental United States.

Approved, June 25, 1938.

[PUBLIC RESOLUTION-No. 13-75TH CONGRESS]

[CHAPTER 41-18T SESSION]

[H. J. Res. 252]

JOINT RESOLUTION

To aid in defraying the expenses of the International Labor Office incident to holding its Technical Tripartite Textile Conference.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of $15,000 to aid in defraying the extraordinary expenses of the International Labor Office incident to holding its Technical Tripartite Textile Conference in Washington, District of Columbia, în April 1937: Provided, That $10,000 of this appropriation shall be available for contribution for such purposes to the International Labor Organization, and not to exceed $5,000 shall be available for expenditure by the Secretary of Labor for expenses incident to holding such conference in Washington, including personal services in the District of Columbia, communication services, stenographic and other services by contract if deemed necessary without regard to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes (U. S. C., title 41, sec. 5), local transportation, stationery, supplies, repairs and alterations, and -uch other expenses as the Secretary of Labor may deem necessary.

Approved, March 15, 1937.

(357)

[PUBLIC RESOLUTION-No. 58-75TH CONGRESS]

[CHAPTER 609-1ST SESSION]

[H. J. Res. 321]

JOINT RESOLUTION

Granting the consent of Congress to the minimum-wage compact ratified by the Legislatures of Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the compact for establishing uniform standards for conditions of employment, particularly with regard to the minimum wage, in States ratifying the same, which was signed in Concord, New Hampshire, on May 29, 1934, by representatives of the Governors of Maine, New Hampshire, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New York, and Pennsylvania, and which was ratified by the Legislature of Massachusetts on June 80, 1984, by the Legislature of New Hampshire on May 29, 1935, and by the Legislature of Rhode Island on May 1, 1986, is hereby approved and declared to be effective in said States in accordance with the terms thereof, and hereafter in such States as may at any time ratify the same; which compact is as follows:

COMPACT FOR ESTABLISHING UNIFORM STANDARDS FOR CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT, PARTICULARLY WITH REGARD TO THE MINIMUM WAGE, IN STATES RATIFYING THE SAME

TITLE I-POLICY AND INTENT

Whereas enforcement among the industrial States of the Union of reasonably uniform standards for labor in industry, determined in accordance with the general welfare, would not only benefit labor but would be of real advantage to employers, removing the pressure toward low wages, long hours of work, exploitation of minors and women, and similar action commonly admitted to be injurious to all concerned; and

Whereas the advantages of such uniform standards have already been indicated by the operation of the National Industrial Recovery Act and the codes of fair competition adopted thereunder; and Whereas such operation points to the desirability of continued uniform legislation affecting labor standards, by Federal action or otherwise, and of joint action by the States to establish such uniform standards; and

Whereas the establishment of reasonably uniform standards in States concerned with the same general fields of industry and competitors in the same markets will afford the advantages of stability in labor legislation to all concerned, with disadvantage to none: Now, therefore

The States whose commissioners have signed this compact and which have, by their legislature, ratified the same, acting to promote the general welfare of the people, do hereby join in establishing the