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 55 STAT.] 77TH CONG. , IST SESS.-CH. 266 -JULY 1, 1941 (b) All receipts and collections by reason of operations in conse- Disposition quence of appropriations made in this joint resolution, except cash ceipts and Col contributions of sponsors of projects and amounts credited to revolv- ing funds authorized by this joint resolution, shall be covered into the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts. (c) Except as authorized in this joint resolution, no allocation of Restriction funds shall be made to any other Federal agency from the appropria- tion in this joint resolution for any Federal agency. No such alloca- tion shall be made for the exercise of the functions of the Radio Division or the United States Film Service transferred to the Office of Education of the Federal Security Agency. SEC. 9. (a) The Commissioner, subject to the approval of the Fed- Monthly eral Works Administrator. shall fix a monthly earning schedule for sc h edu le. persons engaged upon work projects financed in whole or in part from funds appropriated by section 1 which shall not substantially affect the current national average labor cost per person of the Work Projects Administration. Such monthly earning schedule shall not Differential, be varied for workers of the same type in different geographical areas striction. to any greater extent than may be justified by differences in the cost of living. The Commissioner shall require that the hours of work Hoursofworl for all persons engaged upon work projects financed in whole or in part by funds appropriated by section 1 shall (1) be one hundred and thirty hours per month except that the Commissioner, in his discre- tion, may require a lesser number of hours of work per month in the case of relief workers with no dependents and the earnings of such workers shall be correspondingly reduced, and, (2) not exceed eight hours in any day, and (3) not exceed forty hours in any week. (b) The Commissioner may authorize exemptions from the above Exemptions limitations of monthly earnings and hours of work on projects certi- fied as hereinbefore provided as being important for military or naval purposes; to protect work already done on a project; to permit making up lost time; in the case of an emergency involving the public welfare; and in the case of supervisory personnel employed on work projects. SEC. 10. (a) Section 15 (a) of the Emergency Relief Appropriation p1 Prefernoe' l Act, fiscal year 1941, is hereby continued in effect for the month of 54stat.620. July 1941. Effective on August 1, 1941, in employing or retaining in employment, on Work Projects Administration work projects, preference shall be given to veterans of the World War and the war veterans Spanish-American War and veterans of any campaign or expedition in which the United States has been engaged (as determined on the basis of the laws administered by the Veterans' Administration, except that discharged draft enrollees other than those with service- connected disability shall not be considered as veterans for the pur- poses of this subsection), and unmarried widows of any such veterans, nmarred w and the wives of any such veterans who are unemployable, who have been certified as in need of employment by the Work Projects Administration or by any agency designated by it to so certify: Provided, That if the total monthly income from all sources of any eot'rc0 ti such veteran or of the unmarried widow of any such veteran, or if need. the total combined monthly income from all sources of any such unemployable veteran and his wife, as determined by the Commis- sioner (whose determination shall be final and conclusive), is less than the monthly earnings the veteran, unmarried widow, or wife would receive if employed as a project worker of the Work Projects Administration, then such veteran, unmarried widow, or wife, as the case may be, shall be certified as in need of such employment, and when assigned to such employment he or she shall be employed for such period as will permit the total monthly income of such veteran or unmarried widow, or the total combined monthly, income of such 401 of re- ections. on al- Is. oarning I, re- k. a em. ,etc. idows. on of 278941--42-PT. I - 26

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