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 PUBLIC LAWS-CH. 508 -JULY 2,1940 Employee's answer. Regular working hours of laborers and mechanics. Proviso. Overtime employ- ment; pay. Emergencies affect- ing national security. Government-owned facilities. Personnel for protec- tion of critical, etc. , materials. Procurement of crit- ical, etc., materials. 53 Stat. 811. 50U.. 0., Supp.V , §S98-98f. Limitation. Contracts. Report to Congress. Proviso. Contracts, provi- sions applicable. Curtailment of ex- ports of munitions, etc. Post, p. 1090. Punishment of vio- lators. Termination of au- thority. to such person of such charges: And provided further, That within thirty days after such removal such person shall have an opportunity personally to answer such charges in writing and to submit affidavits m support of such answer. (b) Notwithstanding the provisions of any other law the regular working hours of laborers and mechanics employed by the War Department, who are engaged in the manufacture or production of military equipment, munitions, or supplies shall be eight hours per day or forty hours per week during the period of any national emergency declared by the President to exist: Provided, That under such regulations as the Secretary of War may prescribe, such hours may be exceeded, but compensation for employment in excess of forty hours in any workweek computed at a rate not less than one and one-half times the regular rate, shall be paid to such laborers and mechanics. SEC. 5. The President is authorized, with or without advertising, through the appropriate agencies of the Government (1) to provide for emergencies affecting the national security and defense and for each and every purpose connected therewith, including all of the objects and purposes specified under any appropriation available or to be made available to the War Department for the fiscal years 1940 and 1941; (2) to provide for the furnishing of Government-owned facilities at privately owned plants; (3) to provide for the procure- ment and training of civilian personnel necessary in connection with the protection of critical and essential items of equipment and mate- rial and the use or operation thereof; and (4) to provide for the procurement of strategic and critical materials in accordance with the Act of June 7, 1939, but the aggregate amount to be used by the President for all such purposes shall not exceed $66,000,000. The President is further authorized, through such agencies, to enter into contracts for such purposes in an aggregate amount not exceeding $66,000,000. An account shall be kept of all expenditures made or authorized under this section, and a report thereon shall be submitted to the Congress at the beginning of each session subsequent to the third session of the Seventy-sixth Congress: Provided, That no con- tract entered into pursuant to the provisions of this section which would otherwise be subject to the provisions of the Act entitled "An Act to provide conditions for the purchase of supplies and the making of contracts by the United States, and for other purposes", approved June 30, 1936 (49 Stat. 2036; U. S . C ., Supp. V, title 41, sees. 35-45), shall be exempt from the provisions of such Act solely because of being entered into without advertising pursuant to the provisions of this section. SEC. 6. Whenever the President determines that it is necessary in the interest of national defense to prohibit or curtail the expor- tation of any military equipment or munitions, or component parts thereof, or machinery, tools, or material, or supplies necessary for the manufacture, servicing, or operation thereof, he may by procla- mation prohibit or curtail such exportation, except under such rules and regulations as he shall prescribe. Any such proclamation shall describe the articles or materials included in the prohibition or cur- tailment contained therein. In case of the violation of any provision of any proclamation, or of any rule or regulation, issued hereunder, such violator or violators, upon conviction, shall be punished by a fine of not more than $10,000, or by imprisonment for not more than two years, or by both such fine and imprisonment. The authority granted in this section shall terminate June 30, 1942, unless the Congress shall otherwise provide. Approved, July 2, 1940, 10:55 a. m., E. S. T. 714 [54 STAT.

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