To recapitulate: It is apparent from what has been said that the operation of the Fair Labor Standards Act did not by itself require that the total wage be increased; as long as the basic or “regular” wage rate was not less than the minimum wage fixed by law (40 cents an hour at the times here concerned) the parties to the wage-employment contract were free, insofar as the operation of that act is concerned, to establish any basic or “regular” rate they might agree upon but were bound to augment that rate for overtime as provided by the act. In other words, operation of the Fair Labor Standards Act merely required that the parties fix (and comply with) a wage-computation schedule as set up by the act. It is further apparent that neither the Wage Stabilization Act of 1942 nor the executive orders promulgated thereunder were intended to “affect” the operation of the Fair Labor *449Standards Act. Its free operation was carefully preserved by the Congress and by the, President. The parties to the employment contract here were bound to comply with it. They did comply with it by making the agreement which has been described. That agreement was not for the purpose of, and it did not result in, either increasing or decreasing in any substantial amount the total wage paid for the work performed ; its object was to comply with the act—an object which was not only lawful but which the parties were bound to accomplish. Since wage stabilization was not substantially affected by the agreement we are satisfied that failure to secure the approval of the National War Labor Board to the readjustment of the hourly rate schedule did not avoid such agreement or otherwise result in increasing the total wage for the workweek.