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ARTICLE III. EFFECTIVE DATE

The effective date of this Code shall be the second Monday after its approval by the President of the United States.

ARTICLE IV. GENERAL LABOR PROVISIONS

SECTION 1. Collective bargaining——(a) Employees shall have the right to organize and bargain collectively through representatives of their own choosing, and shall be free from the interference, restraint, or coercion of employers of labor, or their agents, in the designation of such representatives or in self-organization or in other concerted activities for the purpose of collective bargaining or other mutual aid or protection. 
(b) No employee and no one seeking employment shall be required as a condition of employment to join any company union or to refrain from joining, organizing, or assisting a labor organization of his own choosing. 
(c) Employers shall comply with the maximum hours of labor, minimum rates of pay, and other conditions of employment, approved or prescribed by the President.
 
SECTION 2. Child labor.——On and after the effective date of this Code, no person under the age of sixteen (16) years shall be employed, except that persons fourteen (14) and fifteen (15) years of age may employed either——
(a) for a period not to exceed three (3) hours per day on six (6) days per week, or
(b) for one day per week, such day not to exceed eight (8) hours.
In either case, all such hours of work shall be between 7 A.M. and 7 P.M. and shall not conflict with the employee's hours of day school. It is provided, however, that no person under the age of sixteen (16) years shall be employed in delivering merchandise from motor vehicles. 

It is further provided that where a State law prescribed a higher minimum age no person below the age specified by such State law shall be employed within such State.

ARTICLE V. STORE HOURS AND HOURS OF LABOR 

SECTION 1. Basic store and working hours.——On and after the effective date of this Code establishments in the retail trade shall elect to operate upon one of the following schedules of store hours and hours of labor:

Group A.——Any establishment may elect to remain open for business than than fifty-six (56) hours but not less than fifty-two (52) hours per week, unless its store hours were less than fifty-two (52) hours prior to June 1, 1933, in which case such establishment shall not reduce its store hours; no employee of these establishments shall work more than forty (40) hours per week, nor more than eight (8) hours per day, nor more than six (6) days per week.

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