Identity area
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Industrial Standards Branch
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The origins of this branch date to May 1935 with the passage of the Industrial Standards Act. From 1937 until 1944, the "Industrial Standards Branch" appears in the annual reports for the Department of Labour, but the director of the Minimum Wage Branch also acted as the director for the Industrial Standards Act.
The activities of the branch appear to have been subsumed into the activities of the Industry and Labour Board. By 1945, the term "branch" was no longer applied, and the Industrial Standards Branch appears to have been completely absorbed by the Industry and Labour Board.
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The role of the Industrial Standards Branch was to administer the Industrial Standards Act by facilitating conferences of employers and employees within predefined industries and zones to formulate an accepted schedule of wages, hours and days of labour through the use of Industrial Standards Officers reporting to the Branch. The schedules were then enforced by the Minumum Wage Board.
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RAD: Rules for Archival Description, 2nd edn (2008)
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2026-11-16: migrated to AtoM
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Sources
Annual Reports for the Department of Labour, 1937, 1944; RG 7 inventory
Maintenance notes
Archivist(s):
John Dirks