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Notice of Amendment to Hazardous- Makes Legislative Report

Occupations Order No' 4

Hazardous-Occupations Order No. 4 was amended June 24, 1943. This amendment, comprising subsection "(f)," opens to lG and l7-year'old minors employment under the Fair Labor Standards Act in certain auxiliary occupations in logging work for the duration of the war and six months after its termination. This is the second amendment that has been made to this order during the war period' In each case supplementary investigations were made to determine whether a critical labor situation existed in the industry affected and which are the least hazardous occupations among those originally covered by the order. Order No. 4 when first issued covered all occupations in logging and in the operation of sawmills, lath mills, shingle mills, and cooperage-stock mills, with a few specified exceptions'

The first amendment, effective September 12, 1942, opened certain sawmilling occupations, mainly work in the lumber yard outside of the sawmill proper, to 16- ar,d t7year-old workers. This second amendment opens to workers of these ages for the war period specified occupations in connection with logging that were found to be the least hazardous among those originally covered in the order. The occupations in which employment is now permitted are fire patrolmen and watchmen, also construction and maintenance of roads and railroads and similar types of work removed from the immediate site of the actual logging process.

Logging operators employing any minors 16 to 19 years

C. W. Pinkerton, Lumbermen's Governmental Service Bureau, Whittier, in a legislative report of bills that were enacted in the recent session of the California legislature and received the Governor's signature, states the construction industries came out of the session in a most satisfactory manner, millions of dollars were appropriated for postwar work, all adverse legislation was defeated, and many bills were passed that will be a benefit to the industry.

The report covers the principal bills that concerned the building material industry.

War Housing

More than $360 million in contract agreements with private construction companies for publicly financed war housing projects were closed by the Federal Public llousing Authority in the first five months of 1943 according to FPHA Commissioner Herbert Emmerich.

Walter Ohman Gets Commission

Walter Ohman, former secretary to A. S. Murphy, The Pacific Lumber Co., San Francisco, has received his commission as 2nd Lieutenant, and is stationed in the Adjutant General's Office at Washington, D. C.

of age should, as a protection against unintentional violation of the act, obtain age or employment certificates for every such minor. These are issued in most States by the local schools or by the State Department of Labor.