| United States. Bureau of Labor Statistics - Labor - 1949 - 784 pages
...Labor Standards Act was enacted, although 40 cents then was recognized as inadequate to meet * * * the minimum standard of living necessary for health, efficiency, and general well-being of workers." It therefore urged a minimum wage of $1 an hour for all workers, whether in continental United States... | |
| Labor laws and legislation - 1967 - 788 pages
...endorsed objectives, but to be employed equally to sub-standard wages Is no social achievement at all. The "minimum standard of living necessary for health, efficiency, and general well-being of workers" must be attained. . . . Poverty Is not restricted to the unemployed alone. Many who are counted among... | |
| United States. Bureau of Labor Statistics - Labor laws and legislation - 1949 - 786 pages
...Labor Standards Act was enacted, although 40 cents then was recognized as inadequate to meet * * * the minimum standard of living necessary for health, efficiency, and general well-being of workers." It therefore urged a minimum wage of $1 an hour for all workers, whether in continental United States... | |
| United States - 1937 - 1596 pages
...nearly adequate as is economically feasible without curtailing opportunity for employment, to maintain a minimum standard of living necessary for health, efficiency, and general well-being. The Board's jurisdiction, however, does not include the power to declare minimum wages in excess of... | |
| United States. Bureau of Labor Statistics - Labor - 1939 - 1542 pages
...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 well-being of workers" burdened commerce, and constituted an unfair method of competition, and that it led to labor disputes... | |
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