INFORMATION RELATING TO AGRICULTURAL ECONOMY IN GENERAL I25 



eties which had contributed to the institute —, an executive committee, 

 and a committee of official arbitrators having three effective members 

 and two \'ice-members. 



UNITED STATES. 



OVERTIME IN THE FRUIT AND VEGETABLE CANNING AND PACKING INDUSTRY 

 OF OREGON. — Monthly Review of the U, S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Washington , 

 July 191 5. 



The Oregon Industrial Welfare Commission published under date of 

 26 May 1914 an order providing for the issiie of emergenc}^ overtime per- 

 mits to fruit and vegetable canning and packing establishments. Such 

 overtime is not to be permitted for more than six calendar weeks, and the 

 whole working time, including overtime, is not to exceed sixty hours in any 

 calendar week nor ten hours in any day. The following is the order in full. 



" Take Notice : That pursuant to the authority granted by chapter 

 35, General Laws of Oregon, 1915, the industrial welfare commission has 

 investigated the emergency overtime requirements of the fruit and vege- 

 table canning and packing industry of Oregon and finds that for six (6) 

 weeks of each 3^ ear the aforesaid industry requires emergency overtime be- 

 yond the fift3^-four (54) hours a week prescribed as maximum hours for wo- 

 men workers in such industry in I. W. C. Orders No. 2 and No. 5. 



" Wherefore, the industrial welfare commission authorizes and per- 

 mits the employment of adult women in fruit and vegetable canning and 

 packing establishments in the State of Oregon for more than fifty-four (54) 

 hours a week under the following conditions and rules which the afore- 

 said commission hereby today determines and prescribes : 



" (i) Such emergency overtime shall not be permitted for more than 

 six (0) calendar weeks, from May i to December i in any year. 



" (2) The emergency overtime shall not exceed the fifty-four (54) 

 hours a week now prescribed by I. W. C. Orders No. 2 and No. 5 by more 

 than six (6) hours for any calendar week. 



" (3) Nothing in this permit or order shall be interpreted as authoriz- 

 ing the employment of any woman for more than ten (10) hours in any 

 day. 



" (4) Such emergency overtime shall be paid for at a rate of not less 

 than twenty-five cents (25c) an hour ; and the earnings for emergency over- 

 time shall in no case be included in the weekly minimum wage prescribed 

 by the rulings of the commission, but shall in every case be over and above 

 the weekly minimum wage prescribed by I. W. C. Orders No. 2 and No. 5 

 for adult women workers. 



" (5) The owner or manager of every fruit and vegetable cannery 

 or packing establishment in Oregon employing women under this emer- 

 gency overtime permit shall furnish the industrial welfare commission on 



