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80-6 ^ 101-13-2 Los Angeles, April 30, 1951 Mr. Walter Rouse: (oo - Mr. A. E. Stoddard Mr, Wm. Reinhardt Mr. R. M. Sutton) v I am enclosing herewith Mr. Stoddard*a letter of April 12, 1951 to Mr. Reinhardt authorizing in­crease of 12£% per hou r in the rates of p a y of employees of Water Department of the LVLfcWCo., Las Vegas, Nevada, subject to compliance w i t h the regulations of the Wage Stabilization Board. I am also enclosing a copy of Mr. Reinhardt*s letter of April 10, 1951 to Mr. Stoddard recom­m e n d i n g this increase. 1 have advised Mr. Reinhardt that without prior authorization of the Wage Stabilization Board, he can put into effect under R e g ulation No. 6 increases in rates of p a y f or the office f o r c e , including a housekeeper and rooming house attendants, w h i c h are listed under column headed "New R a t e s ” : Base W k l y Wage Rate for 40 Hrs N e w • Rates W k l y Wage for 40 Hrs Steno. Clerk #1 #1.466 # 58.64 11.57 # 62.80 Steno. Clerk #2 1.408 56.32 1.53 61.20 Checker 1.35 54.00 1.475 59.00 Housekeeper .78 31.20 . .88 35.20 Rm.Hse.Attendants (2) .75 60.00 .85 68.00 260.16 #286.20 Allowable incl. 1 0% 26.02 Allowable total #286.18 The average of these n ew rates is not in excess of 10% over the average of the rates of p ay in effect d uring the base period. I have excluded the increases of 2&% an hour granted the house­keeper and rooming house attendants on January 25, 1950 in deter­m ining base date rates of p a y because I regard these increases as being p urely merit increases. I a m informed that the increases to the rooming house attendants were made to comply with the m i n ­imum wag e requirements of the Fair Labor Standards Act and the increase to the housekeeper w as made t o main t a i n the supervisory differential. These increases were separate and apart from the , ^ general increases which have from time to time been granted to all