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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... less than 85 cents , 90 cents , $ 1 , and $ 1.25 and the direct increase in annual wage bill resulting from these minimum wage rates_ Table C - 2 . Estimates of the percent of production workers in manufacturing , earning less than 85 ...
... less than 85 cents , 90 cents , $ 1 , and $ 1.25 and the direct increase in annual wage bill resulting from these minimum wage rates_ Table C - 2 . Estimates of the percent of production workers in manufacturing , earning less than 85 ...
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... less . Multiply this by the average family size of approximately 4 and you have the staggering figure of about 18 million people in this great , blessed , productive , generous country of ours - about 18 million people living on this ...
... less . Multiply this by the average family size of approximately 4 and you have the staggering figure of about 18 million people in this great , blessed , productive , generous country of ours - about 18 million people living on this ...
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... less and less workers . In- stead there should be adopted a program of extending coverage to many groups of low - paid workers who are now denied its protection . The effectiveness of the act in accomplishing its basic purpose obviously ...
... less and less workers . In- stead there should be adopted a program of extending coverage to many groups of low - paid workers who are now denied its protection . The effectiveness of the act in accomplishing its basic purpose obviously ...
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... less than 75 cents an hour . An approximately equivalent number are now being paid less than 90 cents . There is your starting point . As to the increase in the cost of living which has taken place since 1949 , the Department's Bureau ...
... less than 75 cents an hour . An approximately equivalent number are now being paid less than 90 cents . There is your starting point . As to the increase in the cost of living which has taken place since 1949 , the Department's Bureau ...
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... Less Than 75 € 30 46 % 901 $ 1.00 СЭТАЯ 28 YDE 33 % 30 % 30 20 10 о 461 Southern Sow Mills Men's Seamless Hose Dress Shirts 1954 Required Percentage Increase in Wage Bill for Employees Earning Less Than 90 % or $ 1.00 30 % 20 18 % 20 14 ...
... Less Than 75 € 30 46 % 901 $ 1.00 СЭТАЯ 28 YDE 33 % 30 % 30 20 10 о 461 Southern Sow Mills Men's Seamless Hose Dress Shirts 1954 Required Percentage Increase in Wage Bill for Employees Earning Less Than 90 % or $ 1.00 30 % 20 18 % 20 14 ...
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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
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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.