Untitled Texas Attorney General Opinion ( 1943 )

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OFFICE OF THE Al-l’ORNEY GENERAL OF TEXAS
AUSTIN
Uonorrrbld John D. Beed, Colrsdesionor
Bureau of l&or Statistias
&lstin, T%xas
D&w &ix-*
Rood: opinion no. o-
Re; Oonatruct
IOU ask sol-an 0
the tmn *designated indue
ate Sill 40. l2S* as paw
sonat% x111 x0, the 8ubjoot Of hour8
of labor ?oi fe438le
*X0 tiks%of var t&e Co~3&3don0r vf .Labor Sta-
ti8fiioasay, based upon pri*ats imvstigativn and
uithout Doti Or hear&w&, ir ha f’$IIdzi
that ,t&8 86ti
plopent af PceaLe eq~oyoss in any designatad in-
Watry P0r ton (10) hvWs par day *ill not injure
tho honlth or ~orala aw%/vr addtto the hazamia of
the3.roocu~xtion, atlitthat such hours of Labor we
in the pubUo hmm?at, file hlisfin&in@ SB required
hvroin, ‘md t&xv an ordvr ~gmnting an exemption; and
the aiqdoyw afWH&l shall be ems@ for thirty (m)
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ItonorobleJohn 01 Bocd - paago2
socticn 6 If3oe follow:
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WI addition to the forego* ex~ptiona, in
t&m cf war and/or when t&o Prosfdmt of the United
State8 proclain;sa etrte aP nationnl enrsrkenoyto
cxlat, PoPale workers employed in iadustriee oomplng
within the jUPisd%CtiOB ol'the anir tah0~ Standards
Aot of 1938 aml zructiente thereto, the Act of June
3Oth, 1036, C. 881, 49 Statute 203%~ U.8&dtQ, Sup-
ploQerltIL, Title 41, Rbragroph 36-&a* as aIH3nded
by Act of &ay 13, 1942, Pualle llo``lK52,-TW1Gon-
ir;rcwe, 2nd Beseion, oomm~ly mown as the Yolsh-
ihaley Aot, or tho Aot of Uaroh 3, 1031,~G+ 411r
46 Statute $494, as aixeudedAugust 30, 1938, C.
828, 49 Statute loll, O.S&ode Tltle.40, isr~aph
2mA and Supplo%nontY, Title 40, iNra.~aph 2?6A-
27ttA-0, CoplmiQOly kt3OYn 99 the ~OCOZbD.%ViS A&, al’8
exezpted f’romtho ~ro~isione of Seotionns1,.2, a, 4,
5, and 13 of this Act, and feaialoworkers in suoh
Industries may be tmployi!dnot ax00edi.n~ten (10)
hours per day ~protid& such hours of emplqment in
such induetrioe are not injurious to WC health or
morals of female oqloyeos, or sorldng such hours
does not add to tha hazartls of their oooupatiees and
such hours 0P ewployraentari?in the public intorest.
pro~ldel howaoer,thatintLam of war fmd/orophon
the iToo1dent of the Utitod States proolaine a state
of nattonal t?mdtgeucy'toexist, al1 iwale off%09 oplv
~lOyOC!tl GP Such CUIplOy~S oOEdng'W%thin the @lPViOW
ot Soet.l.cn 6 hereof tat-0 exmpG fros the provisions
of thie Aot."
It xi11 be obaer~@a Chat Sectton 6 proscribes addi-
tional exeqtions frolu the praiouelg-stated exooptions under I
the Act, 6uch ailditionalaxempticns being war-tine, Or exeou- i ,
tioo i,roclationa of national c~lorg:en~rg~ T~OSQ add%tlonal
~m~p~ttans perta.&nto femlo workers employed in indmtrise
oocdn& within the juris&Lction OP ,thSBatr &abor Standards
dot aP 1938 ami mmndmante timrotoj tho Aut of June 30, 10313,
C. 331, 49 5tatuto 20m, U.~#XIO Supp, 11, Titlo 41, pars-
graph m-48, OS ar,enrlcd by Act OP Eay lb, 1942, FUblio NO,
882, 77th Congress, 6fXorxlSosalon, commonly Imown ad tho
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lalab-liealeyAct, or the Act af Maroh J, 1091, U, 411, &
Statute 1494, as mxmded August 30, i%B, 0. 828, 49 Stat-
ute lull, U.Bmde, Tit10 go, para@'aph 27aA and Suppltmant
I), Title #J, porograijl27fbb2986-3, commnly ~mown us the
BsCOn-ilovishot.
Seotlun 8 autho~ses the Cem``seionm of Laber
Btatistios to sake 3r1order gr3ntl.ngan excqtion upon a
finding by him such as is pre8orUMd therein. The Seotion
authorbes such order upon such flnaing vith Pespect to lfe-
rale employeea ia any desigateil industry.0 It does not,ft~-
tha identify the induetrles oonteqlated. The Beotion does,
howevsr, permit the order to be tie, *upon private investi-
gation and oithou$ notice or hearing,a We are of the epition
$he exemption ooataeplated by the provision6 of 99atlion 0
w3ima 333 oxeziptlon entirely i&tart 1Froa, ani? in EldcUtion to
those Ozoeptitns th;rtBpe rpaiie In SCotion S, nnd these ~X~RIQ-
tions mre apeolftoally nade In Section 8. Xt is a perndtted
class w1tki.nitso1r. *Deelgn3tad iaduetrya,tMxWorb, means
the particular, nsmi izxluetrymde the nubjoct of the com-
rsissioner'sorder.
'bioreover, it *IL1 bo sect3tlwt athe axo3a@ion 0ontW
plated by motion 9 is not liolttodto those industriee which
are oesontial mr induetrioa, but on ths contrary, they aro
iWthGPiz&: xhcre the COIcdOSiOnOr m&es his findi``gthat they
wwill not injure the heitlthor ~ornl.5 and/or'add to tho hazards
of their oooupati.on, sn;J. that such hours cf labor are in the
publi0 int Groat .a rho *publio Lntorast~ is 3 tro;ul& ati mm
om~m&mnaive tertdthan tho interest of tho mr censures.
So that;,conetruhg the AoOt,3s w8 mat,
arga whole,
c;:miderIi~ each anil crory psrt thereaP, and
to ccchgiving
mil every part theroof its reasonable and proper weaning, in
the light of oaob ami every other part, 7~0beg to advise that
the tcru %hsiguatcil i.ndustryaa 09 it is used in EMotion 8,
is not llnited to the Industries mentioned in Beotion 6 ef the
bet.
zhia opinion ie licited to the sole inquiry W your