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More Answers To NRA Problems Aug. does the NRA mean? The following questions were developed and answered Monday by officials of the national recovery administration: Are small businesses. employing only few persons, required to pay stated wage scales and observe the hours specified in the blanket code? They How are unchartered home Industries, such as home launderies, affected by the NRA? Where only one person is engaged in such industries he or she is not affected. Where more are at work, the business is expected to come in under the blanket code. What about firms having curb service and employing several small boys or young men to serve cars at the curb? The minimum wage for parttime worker in such businesses expected to be such that if the employe worked at that wage for full week of 40 hours he would receive the weekly wage prescribed for him by the president's employment agreement. Is an employer expected to discharge employes where he has been spreading work by means of the movement so to give regular work for less number. of workers? No. Compensation of employes above the minimum wage group. whether now fixed by the hour, day, week or otherwise, shall not be reduced, either to compensate the em- ployer for increases that he may be required to make in the minimum wage group in order to comply with the president's re-employment greement, or to turn this agreement into mere movement without resulting increase of total purchasing power. Is an employer who has signed the president's re-employment agreement abiding by its provisions if he turns off any of his employes? He is not complying with the spirit of the agreement. Marchant Named Bank Receiver. ORANGEBURG. Aug. Brig. Gen. E. Marchant of Columbia has been named receiver for the Edisto National bank here. He took charge of the institution yesterday with his assistant, J. B. Baxter. of Columbia. The bank reopened following the banking holiday under W. L. Glover, former cashier and vice president, as conservator.
