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" 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... "
Amending the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, Hearings...S. 662, S. 770, S ... - Page 527
by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare - 1956 - 758 pages
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United States Reports: Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Court at ..., Volume 343

United States. Supreme Court, John Chandler Bancroft Davis, Henry Putzel, Henry C. Lind, Frank D. Wagner - Courts - 1952 - 1030 pages
...nearly adequate as economically feasible without curtailing opportunity for employment, to maintain a minimum standard of living necessary for health, efficiency, and general well-being . . ." but not in excess of 40 cents per hour. Id., at 15. Similar provisions empowered the Board to...
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Monthly Labor Review, Volume 68

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...
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Monthly Labor Review, Volume 90

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...
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Monthly Labor Review, Volume 68

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...
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United States Congressional Serial Set, Issue 10085

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...
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Interpretative Bulletins, Issues 1-14

United States. Department of Labor. Wage and Hour Division - Labor laws and legislation - 1938 - 324 pages
...it sought to remedy certain evils, namely, "labor conditions detrimental to the maintenance of the minimum standard of living necessary for health, efficiency, and general well-being of workers," which Congress found "(1) causes commerce and the channels and instrumentalities of commerce to be...
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A Ceiling for Hours, a Floor for Wages and a Break for Children: An ...

United States. Department of Labor. Wage and Hour Division - Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 - 1938 - 20 pages
...production of goods for [interstate] commerce, of labor conditions detrimental to the maintenance of the minimum standard of living necessary for health, efficiency, and general well-being of workers "(1) Causes commerce and the channels and instrumentalities of commerce to be used to spread and perpetuate...
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Monthly Labor Review, Volume 47

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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Interstate Migration: Hearings Before the Select Committee to ..., Parts 7-10

United States. Congress. House. Select Committee to Investigate the Interstate Migration of Destitute Citizens - Migrant labor - 1940 - 1580 pages
...workers. That the annual earnings of the great majority of agricultural workers are inadequate to maintain "a minimum standard of living necessary for health, efficiency, and general well-being" Is indicated by the available studies of farm laborers' incomes. Information on the earnings of migratory...
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United States Reports: Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Court at ..., Volume 312

United States. Supreme Court, John Chandler Bancroft Davis, Henry Putzel, Henry C. Lind, Frank D. Wagner - Courts - 1941 - 828 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 (1) causes commerce and the channels and instrumentalities of commerce to be used to spread and perpetuate...
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