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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... increase in personal income-tax exemptions. On the other hand, hidden taxes have increased and in most States people are now called upon to pay sales taxes. Thus the tax burden is being shifted more and more to the shoulders of the low ...
... increase in personal income-tax exemptions. On the other hand, hidden taxes have increased and in most States people are now called upon to pay sales taxes. Thus the tax burden is being shifted more and more to the shoulders of the low ...
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... increasing the Federal minimum wage were unfortunate , because , as I recall it , of the infla- tionary increase in the cost of living which has occurred since 1949 . Do you recognize that too drastic an increase in the Federal mini ...
... increasing the Federal minimum wage were unfortunate , because , as I recall it , of the infla- tionary increase in the cost of living which has occurred since 1949 . Do you recognize that too drastic an increase in the Federal mini ...
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... Increase the Minimum Wage United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor. The New York Democratic delegation , in emphasizing the need ... INCREASE THE MINIMUM WAGE TUESDAY , JUNE 7 AMENDMENT TO INCREASE THE MINIMUM WAGE 97.
... Increase the Minimum Wage United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor. The New York Democratic delegation , in emphasizing the need ... INCREASE THE MINIMUM WAGE TUESDAY , JUNE 7 AMENDMENT TO INCREASE THE MINIMUM WAGE 97.
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... Increase the Minimum Wage United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor. Mr. LARSON . I think my answer to that was that it is not adequate in the sense that it fully carries out what we would all like to see for the ...
... Increase the Minimum Wage United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor. Mr. LARSON . I think my answer to that was that it is not adequate in the sense that it fully carries out what we would all like to see for the ...
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... Increase the Minimum Wage United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor. groups to want to come in ... increase in the cost of living which has taken place since 1949 , the Department's Bureau of Labor Statistics ...
... Increase the Minimum Wage United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor. groups to want to come in ... increase in the cost of living which has taken place since 1949 , the Department's Bureau of Labor Statistics ...
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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.