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Sec. 1. What variations or limitations should be introduced into the principle of standardization in view of the great area and economic diversity of the United States?

Sec. 2. Differences in natural or acquired advantage between different enterprises as a reason for modification and limitation of the principle.

Sec. 3. Differences in the character of the work performed by any large group of wage earners as a reason.

Sec. 4. Differences in the cost of living at different points within the area of standardization as a reason.

Sec. 5. The grounds for "nominal variations" in standard wage rates. The policy to be pursued in regard to payment for irregular employment.

Sec. 6. The possibility of maintaining standard wage rates over a large and diversified area considered.

Sec. 7. Up to the present, the progress of standardization has not proceeded in accordance with reasoned conclusions as to the results produced.

Sec. 8. Where should level of standardization be set? The doctrine of "standardization upward."

Sec. 9. The importance of the principle of standardization in wage settlement.