HOURS AND WAGES
CONDITIONS IN U.S.A. PRESIDENT'S PROPOSALS WASHINGTON. May 25. President Roosevelt, in a, special message, asked Congress to extend the frontier of social progress by enacting a maximum hour and minimum wage law. A Bill embodying these aims was introduced in both Houses with the maximums and minimums as yet unfixed. Its sponsors hope that a 40-hour week will be made the maximum, discretion being given to the Labour Standards Board to reduce it as low as 30 hours. The minimum wage they expect is 40 cents an hour. The Bill abolishes all child labour under 16, and prohibits the inter-State transportation of goods produced except under the conditions specified. The measure is similar to the N.R.A., but without the codes of fair business practices. .
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 123, 26 May 1937, Page 12
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127HOURS AND WAGES Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 123, 26 May 1937, Page 12
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