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MESSENGER BOYS PAY ISSUE WASHINGTON, D. O, Dec. 3 The West-! ern Union and Postal Telegraph companies today filed with the wage-hour law administration a petition asking for review of the recent decision holding that messenger boys must be paid twenty-five cents an hour. Wage-Hour Administrator Elmer F. Andrews held that messenger boys came within the provisions of the minimum wage requirements of the law after both companies appealed for exemption. Filing of the review petition throws in motion the machinery of the law and a date for public hearings on the communications companies move will be fixed in a few days.
