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    Re: LVL&WCo. Wage and Salary Adjustments, Las Vegas. May 15, 1943 Memo to E.E.6.: (cc - Mr. Walter R. Bracken) I discussed this matter with a Mrs. Wallace, of the Regional Office of the War Labor Board in San Francisco, who referred me to Miss Barbara Fitzgerald, a wage anal­yst in the Department. Miss Fitzgerald informed me that all these applications were being held up until the reg­ulations from Washington could be clarified. She said that one of the head men of the Regional Office was now in Washington and expected back Monday of next week with instructions which they hope will give the Regional Board more latitude in granting Increases. She said that until they received clarification of their regulations, she could do absolutely nothing with the application. Both Herman Larson, who was with me, and I explained to her the critical employment situation of the Company at Las Vegas and that it was impossible for us to hold employees at lower wage rates than those paid at the Basic Magnesium and other war plants in that vicinity. She said that she appreciated our difficulty, but that she did not consider these war plants to be similar to our company under existing regulations. She wondered if there were not other utilities with whose wage scales we could make comparisons to furnish justification for the increases. I told her that there were telephone and power companies in Las Vegas, but I could not say wheth­er their conditions were comparable to ours. I obtained the understanding that even if such wage comparisons would justify the increase, the Regional Board would be unable to do anything about the applica­tion until their regulations are clarified. I suggest that Mr. Bracken attempt to learn if there are similar positions in the other utilities in Las Vegas paying rates comparable to the proposed sal­aries set forth in our application. With this informa­tion at hand we can get in touch with the Regional Of­fice the latter part of next week to see if the new reg­ulations will permit the granting of the application.