Amending the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, Hearings...S. 662, S. 770, S. 1127, S. 1437, S. 1447, S. 2404, S. 2748, S. 2963, S. 3310, May 1956 |
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... profit from substandard wages and from the continuance of sweatshop conditions, one of the greatest social evils of the industrial world. We suggest this subcommittee examine closely the arguments of those who will appear here in ...
... profit from substandard wages and from the continuance of sweatshop conditions, one of the greatest social evils of the industrial world. We suggest this subcommittee examine closely the arguments of those who will appear here in ...
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... profit , or operated on a sharecrop basis , and which are used exclusively for supply and storing of water for agricultural purposes " . [ S. 1437 , 84th Cong . , 1st sess . ] A BILL To amend the Fair Labor Standards Act by clarifying ...
... profit , or operated on a sharecrop basis , and which are used exclusively for supply and storing of water for agricultural purposes " . [ S. 1437 , 84th Cong . , 1st sess . ] A BILL To amend the Fair Labor Standards Act by clarifying ...
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... profit from substandard wages and from the continuance of sweatshop conditions , one of the greatest social evils of the industrial world . We suggest this subcommittee examine closely the arguments of those who will appear here in ...
... profit from substandard wages and from the continuance of sweatshop conditions , one of the greatest social evils of the industrial world . We suggest this subcommittee examine closely the arguments of those who will appear here in ...
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... profit American industry to produce enormously if there are no customers for its products ? And there cannot be customers , if the American worker's income is too low to permit him to purchase even the necessities of life , much less ...
... profit American industry to produce enormously if there are no customers for its products ? And there cannot be customers , if the American worker's income is too low to permit him to purchase even the necessities of life , much less ...
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... profits that have been made by employers . Mr. MEANY . Well , Senator , I am sure you recall in your experience . this sort of argument is used in all legislation of this type . You and I personally had an experience in New York in 1935 ...
... profits that have been made by employers . Mr. MEANY . Well , Senator , I am sure you recall in your experience . this sort of argument is used in all legislation of this type . You and I personally had an experience in New York in 1935 ...
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Page xiii - Produced 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 process or occupation necessary to the production thereof, in any State.
Page xiii - ... (1) causes commerce and the channels and instrumentalities of commerce to be used to spread and perpetuate such labor conditions among the workers of the several States; (2) burdens commerce and the free flow of goods in commerce; (3) constitutes an unfair method of competition in commerce; (4) leads to labor disputes burdening and obstructing commerce and the free flow of goods in commerce; and (5) interferes with the orderly and fair marketing of goods in commerce.
Page 527 - FINDING AND DECLARATION OF POLICY SEC. 2. (a) The Congress hereby finds that the existence, in industries engaged in commerce or in the production of goods for commerce, of labor conditions detrimental to the maintenance of the minimum standard of living necessary for health, efficiency, and general wellbeing of workers...
Page 14 - The power of Congress over interstate commerce is not confined to the regulation of commerce among the states. It extends to those activities intrastate which so affect interstate commerce or the exercise of the power of Congress over it as to make regulation of them appropriate means to the attainment of a legitimate end, the exercise of the granted power of Congress to regulate interstate commerce.
Page xiii - ... of the Agricultural Marketing Act, as amended), the raising of livestock, bees, fur-bearing animals, or poultry, and any practices (including any forestry or lumbering operations) performed by a farmer or on a farm as an incident to or in conjunction with such farming operations, including preparation for market, delivery to storage or to market or to carriers for transportation to market.
Page xiii - ... delivering letters and messages, under special certificates issued pursuant to regulations of the Administrator, at such wages lower than the minimum wage applicable under section 6 and subject to such limitations as to time, number, proportion, and length of service as the Administrator shall prescribe...
Page 22 - ... 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.
Page xiii - The amendments made by this Act shall take effect upon the expiration of one...
Page xiii - Congress hereby finds that the existence, in industries engaged in commerce or in the production of goods for commerce or in activities affecting commerce, of labor conditions detrimental to the maintenance of the minimum standard of living necessary for health, efficiency, and general well-being of workers...
Page xiii - In connection with the production or harvesting of any commodity defined as an agricultural commodity in section 15 (g) of the Agricultural Marketing Act, as amended, or in connection with the ginning of cotton, or in connection with the operation or maintenance...