Amendment to Increase the Minimum Wage .. Hearings ... June 1, 2, 3, 7, 8, 9, 10, 14, 15, 17, 21, 22, 23, 24, 28, 29, and 30, 1955.84-11955 - 1197 pages |
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... Statistics study and by regu- lar Bureau of Labor Statistics monthly reports , for all manufac- turing industries , durable and nondurable goods industries , April 1954 - Table 2. Percentages of plant workers earning under $ 0.75 ...
... Statistics study and by regu- lar Bureau of Labor Statistics monthly reports , for all manufac- turing industries , durable and nondurable goods industries , April 1954 - Table 2. Percentages of plant workers earning under $ 0.75 ...
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... Statistics . I have a table prepared for me by the Library of Congress . This table shows the actual cost as reported by the Bureau of Labor Statistics of maintaining a family of 4 in 34 representative cities of the United States . I ...
... Statistics . I have a table prepared for me by the Library of Congress . This table shows the actual cost as reported by the Bureau of Labor Statistics of maintaining a family of 4 in 34 representative cities of the United States . I ...
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... statistics , so - called standard of living , which I have heard quoted for about 8 years while I have been on this committee at different times , and so it is not a new approach . There is another approach to this , too , and I do not ...
... statistics , so - called standard of living , which I have heard quoted for about 8 years while I have been on this committee at different times , and so it is not a new approach . There is another approach to this , too , and I do not ...
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... Statistics figures for nine of the great southern cities : These figures show that in these 9 cities the cost of supporting a family of 4 is higher than in my own New York , and this is bare cost - no extras allowed : City October 1951 ...
... Statistics figures for nine of the great southern cities : These figures show that in these 9 cities the cost of supporting a family of 4 is higher than in my own New York , and this is bare cost - no extras allowed : City October 1951 ...
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... statistics . I want to put them in . The Bureau of Labor Statistics within the last 30 days issued an interesting bulletin as to the status of the gross national product an- ticipated for the end of the fiscal year in which we now sit ...
... statistics . I want to put them in . The Bureau of Labor Statistics within the last 30 days issued an interesting bulletin as to the status of the gross national product an- ticipated for the end of the fiscal year in which we now sit ...
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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 earning less economy effect ELLIOTT employees employment exemption fabricated metal 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 North Carolina operations payroll percent 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 tion U. S. Department union United VOGES wage increases wage rates Wage Structure WIER wood
Popular passages
Page 578 - 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 147 - Hourly earnings exclude premium pay for overtime and for work on weekends, holidays, and late shifts.
Page 371 - 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 419 - Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Labor of the Senate Committee on Labor and Public Welfare on S.
Page 525 - The staff of the Subcommittee on Low-Income Families of the Joint Committee on the Economic Report...
Page 16 - STATEMENT OF HON. BARRATT O'HARA, A REPRESENTATIVE IN CONGRESS FROM THE STATE OF ILLINOIS Mr. O'HARA.
Page 535 - (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 504 - 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 489 - ... (vol. 2, p. 57). The children of low-income families suffer the most from the lack of adequate medical care resulting from poverty. According to the Report of the President's Commission on the Health Needs of the Nation...
Page 606 - The committee shall recommend to the Administrator the highest minimum wage rates for the industry which it determines, having due regard to economic and competitive conditions, will not substantially curtail employment in the industry.