To understand the meaning of ``production'' of goods for commerce as
used in the Act it is necessary to refer to the definition in section
3(j) of the term ``produced.'' A detailed discussion of the application
of the term as defined is contained in the interpretative bulletin on
general coverage of the Act, part 776 of this chapter. Section 3(j)
provides that ``produced'' as used in the Act ``means produced,
manufactured, mined, handled, or in any other manner worked on in any
State; and for the purposes of this Act an employee shall be deemed to
have been engaged in the production of goods if such employee was
employed in producing, manufacturing, mining, handling, transporting, or
in any other
manner working on such goods, or in any closely related process or
occupation directly essential to the production thereof, in any State.''
(For the definition of ``State,'' see Sec. 779.16.)
