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a great part of the industry, with intervals approximating
three or four months between advancements in the lower
brackets and somewhat longer intervals as training advances;
(3) that at the present time not many workers in the industry
are actually found in the lowest bracket of learner-wages
because of business decline but that an expansion of manu-
facturing activity might lead to the employment of more
learners; (4) that approximately 15% of the total number of
workers in the industry are learners; and (5) that this pro-
portion is unstable.
Turning now to the question of the prevailing
minimum wage, it is clear that if the past practice of the
Board is adhered to, the Board must find a separate minimum
applicable to trained workers. The lower rates paid to
learners are furthermore subject to possible obsolescence
(R 86-7) since thoy relate to a group which has an unstable
status and is vitally affected by transitory ovents.
The tables submitted by the Aeronautical Chamber
of Commerce make no separation of learnors from trained
workors but the evidence already cited (including the
estimates with respoct to the proportion of learners), in-
dicates that the employees falling into wage intervals below
the 52.5-57.5 interval are undoubtedly learners in various
stages of advancement. The evidence already cited also
indicates that a considerable part of those falling into the
next wage intorval are learners in the last stages of training.
Two-thirds of the workers recoive 62.5 cents an hour or more.
The weight of the evidence points distinctly to the 57.5-62.5
cent interval as the bracket in which the prevailing minimum
wage of the trained employees is to be found. This is the
interval which includes the rate which appears most frequently
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