Amendment to Increase the Minimum Wage: Hearings Before the Committee on Education and Labor, House of Representatives, Eighty-fourth Congress, First Session on Proposed Legislation to Increase the Minimum WageIncludes DOL report "Results of the Minimum-Wage Increase of 1950: Economic Effects in Selected Low-Wage Industries and Establishments," Aug. 1954 (p. 191-313) |
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... Fact Sheet No. 1. Seventy - five cents minimum is now obsolete , modernization of act is essential . 478 Minimum wages in organized plants . 479 Table I. General wage increases in major American industries , 1950-54 480 Table II . Cost ...
... Fact Sheet No. 1. Seventy - five cents minimum is now obsolete , modernization of act is essential . 478 Minimum wages in organized plants . 479 Table I. General wage increases in major American industries , 1950-54 480 Table II . Cost ...
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... Fact sheet No. 4. 75 - cent minimum is obsolete in textiles- $ 1.25 minimum needed for industry stability . Fact sheet No. 5. Safeguards of labor standards on public contracts have been destroyed by Fulbright amendment to Walsh - Healey ...
... Fact sheet No. 4. 75 - cent minimum is obsolete in textiles- $ 1.25 minimum needed for industry stability . Fact sheet No. 5. Safeguards of labor standards on public contracts have been destroyed by Fulbright amendment to Walsh - Healey ...
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... Fact Sheet No. 15. Memorandum on the development of an adjust- ment factor to account for differential price changes for low - income groups . Copy of letter from Acting Commissioner of Labor Statistics re- specting union's survey of ...
... Fact Sheet No. 15. Memorandum on the development of an adjust- ment factor to account for differential price changes for low - income groups . Copy of letter from Acting Commissioner of Labor Statistics re- specting union's survey of ...
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... fact that it is very important , and I have begun getting numerous wires from over the country calling attention to the fact that if we intend to increase the minimum wage the time limit for the effect of the new rates should be fixed ...
... fact that it is very important , and I have begun getting numerous wires from over the country calling attention to the fact that if we intend to increase the minimum wage the time limit for the effect of the new rates should be fixed ...
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... fact that I am not a great economist and do not pretend to be , I will suggest that this rise in cost has a con- notation of reasons behind it . There is no one single cause of the rise in the cost of living in my judgment . Sometimes ...
... fact that I am not a great economist and do not pretend to be , I will suggest that this rise in cost has a con- notation of reasons behind it . There is no one single cause of the rise in the cost of living in my judgment . Sometimes ...
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75 cents 75-cent minimum 90 cents adjustment apparel April average hourly earnings BAILEY brassiere budget Bureau of Labor cents an hour Chairman BARDEN competition Congress cost of living coverage Department of Labor DEWEESE dollar earning less economy effect ELLIOTT employees employment exemption factors Fair Labor Standards February figures FJARE FRELINGHUYSEN gentleman going Governor Muñoz GWINN higher minimum impact income industry committees KELLEY Korean war Labor Standards Act Labor Statistics LANDRUM LARSON legislation low-wage industries lumber manufacturing industries men's dress shirt ment million mills minimum wage North Carolina operations payroll percent period plant workers production workers profits Puerto Rico pulpwood question raise regions ROOSEVELT SCHNITZLER Secretary of Labor shirt and nightwear South southern pine Southern sawmills standard of living statement substandard Table textile timber tion U. S. Department union United VOGES wage increases wage rates WIER wood
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Page 584 - Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938". 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 (1) causes commerce and the channels and instrumentalities of commerce to be used to spread and perpetuate such labor conditions...
Page 179 - South: Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, and West Virginia.
Page 373 - The Administrator, to the extent necessary in order to prevent curtailment of opportunities for employment, shall by regulations or by orders provide for (1) the employment of learners, of apprentices...
Page 423 - The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.
Page 541 - (15) any employee employed in planting or tending trees, cruising, surveying, or felling timber, or in preparing or transporting logs or other forestry products to the mill, processing plant, railroad, or other transportation terminal, if the number of employees employed by his employer In such forestry or lumbering operations does not exceed twelve.
Page 186 - Hourly earnings exclude premium pay for overtime and for work on weekends, holidays, and late shifts.
Page 508 - 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 569 - ... not covered by the minimum wage provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act.
Page 211 - Despite causing significant wage increases, the 75-cent rate appeared to have had only minor effects on such variables as employment, plant shutdowns, prices, technological change, hiring policies, and overtime work.
Page 572 - Our problem is to work out in practice those labor standards which will permit the maximum but prudent employment of our human resources to bring within the reach of the average man and woman a maximum of goods and of services conducive to the fulfillment of the promise of American life.