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-14 in the wage information submitted by the United Automobile Workers as representing the minimum wage of trained workers (sec. (e) above); it also includes the lower level of the bracket which in the tables submitted by the International Association of Machinists (Exhibit J) includes most of the trained workers in the lower wage brackets of the industry. The Board finds that the 57.5-62.5 cent interval contains the prevailing minimum wage of trained employees in the aircraft industry and feels justified in following the statistical practice of taking the midpoint of this inter- val as representing the fairest division that can be made for its purposes, in the absence of specific evidence of greater concentration of workers at some other point within the interval. The Board consequently finds that 60 cents an hour is the prevailing minimum wage in the aircraft manufacturing industry as previously defined. LEARNERS: In view of the importance of learners in the aircraft industry and in view of the evidence (1) that the great majority of the employees are concentrated in plants which have a starting rate of 40 cents an hour, and (2) that approximately 15% of the employees in the industry are learners, the Board is of the opinion that a tolerance for learners should be allowed, and finds that a tolerance of 15% of the total number of productive employees in any plant represents a reasonable allowance for employment of learners; and finds further that 40 cents an hour represents the entrance rate for the great majority of learners in the industry.

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