33 results on '"MINIMUM wage"'
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2. BEHIND THE HEADLINES.
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Healey, Denis
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MINIMUM wage ,UNITED States economy, 1945-1960 ,INDONESIAN politics & government -- 1950-1966 ,FOREIGN relations of the United States, 1953-1961 ,CHINESE foreign relations, 1949-1976 - Abstract
The article presents news briefs and commentary on international and U.S. politics as of the week of August 1, 1955. U.S. political opinion concerning international relations meetings, particularly between China and the U.S. are discussed. The rising of the minimum wage to $1 is explored. Political instability in Indonesia is described between the military and the civil government.
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- 1955
3. The Grape Pickers' Strike: A New Kind of Labor War in California.
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Kopkind, Andrew
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STRIKES & lockouts , *MINIMUM wage , *LABOR incentives , *GRAPE industry - Abstract
Provides information on the strike by grape-pickers in California in 1965 and 1966. Personal background of Cesar Chavez, a Mexican American who is building the strike into a kind of labor war; Mechanics of picketing; Minimum wage and incentive rate demanded by Chavez and the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee leaders; Comparison between Chavez and Bob Moses of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.
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- 1966
4. The Economics of Escalation.
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Walinsky, Louis J.
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WAR on poverty (United States) , *ECONOMIC development , *MINIMUM wage , *INCOME inequality , *SERVICES for poor people , *PRESIDENTS of the United States ,UNITED States economic policy, 1961-1971 - Abstract
Recommends ways in which the administration of U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson can boost its campaign to eliminate poverty across the country in 1966. Need to assess the real nature of the minimum level of living; Ways of helping the poor increase their earning power; Comparison of the money paid direct to the poor and subsidized public services; Call for the re-evaluation of the determination of the government to eliminate poverty.
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- 1966
5. THE WEEK.
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FEDERAL-state controversies , *MINIMUM wage , *PUBLIC demonstrations , *CIVIL rights , *INTERNATIONAL economic assistance - Abstract
The article presents news briefs and commentary on domestic U.S. politics as of the week of June 5, 1961. The civil rights Freedom Ride demonstration from Montgomery, Alabama to Jackson, Mississippi is discussed. President John F. Kennedy's efforts to gain more congressional funding for foreign aid and development are analyzed. State loopholes in the federal minimum wage coverage are outlined.
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- 1961
6. THE WEEK.
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MINIMUM wage , *SUPPLY & demand of teachers , *UNITED States education system , *VIETNAM War, 1961-1975 -- Campaigns , *GUERRILLA warfare - Abstract
The article presents news briefs and commentary on international and domestic U.S. politics as of the week of May 22, 1961. The U.S. military deployment of guerrilla special forces into Saigon and its implications are discussed. The Federal raising of the minimum wage to $.125 is explored. Educational conditions in the U.S. are analyzed, highlighting the teacher shortage.
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- 1961
7. COMMENT.
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CURRENT events education , *VIETNAM War, 1961-1975 , *VICE-Presidential candidates , *MINIMUM wage - Abstract
The article reports and comments on current events in the news during the week of August 5, 1972. A number of items are covered including the conduct of the war in Vietnam by the administration of U.S. president Richard M. Nixon, the selection of senator Thomas Eagleton as the vice-presidential candidate on the Democratic ticket with George McGovern and a Senate proposal for an increase in the minimum wage.
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- 1972
8. Three Years of Peace in the Auto Industry.
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Lester, Richard A.
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AUTOMOBILE industry workers , *MINIMUM wage , *EMPLOYMENT , *LABOR laws - Abstract
The article discusses acceptance of the guaranteed wage plan started by United Automobile Workers (UAW). The Ford and General Motors Corp. agreements represent a tremendous victory for the U.S. labor leader Walter Reuther and the UAW. Spread of negotiated lay-off benefits can, however, have serious effects on declining firms and industries and the smaller firms in an industry like auto. State unemployment-compensation laws, especially benefit levels, will undoubtedly be revised as the result of company wage guarantees. Also, the guarantee programs may have important long-run effects upon the unions themselves. The wage guarantee program will certainly have internal repercussions in the UAW.
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- 1955
9. NEW YORK AND THE MINIMUM-WAGE MOVEMENT, 1933-1937.
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Ingalls, Robert P.
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LABOR laws , *HISTORY of social movements , *MINIMUM wage , *LABOR movement , *CUSTOMER services , *DEPRESSIONS (Economics) , *LEGISLATIVE bills , *HISTORY - Abstract
The article focuses on the labour movement in New York, supporting the minimum-wage legislation, during the years 1933 to 1937. Minimum-wage legislation failed to gain widespread acceptance until the New Deal in the U.S. When the depression hit, workers had little or no protection against the vicious wage cutting which swept the country. New York not only became the first state to adopt a wage law during this period, but it also initiated a test of the measure's constitutionality. For decades the National Consumers' League (NCL) led the campaign for minimum wages throughout the country. In 1923, a ruling by the Supreme Court halted the initial campaign for this reform. NCL efforts in the preceding decade had brought passage of minimum-wage laws in fifteen states and the District of Columbia. The depression revived interest in minimum wages, since massive unemployment gave businessmen the opportunity to exploit helpless workers by drastically reducing wages. Although the cost of living fell
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- 1974
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10. Rationalizing the Farm Labor Market: The Case for Supplemental Wage Payments.
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Schmidt, Fred H.
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LABOR market , *WAGE payment systems , *MINIMUM wage , *LABOR supply , *FARM management , *RESOURCE management , *POVERTY - Abstract
The article focuses on labor market that presents a paradox that relates to a very large, almost ominous, problem over which the whole society is beginning to brood. Simply put, researchers now have a swelling pool of unused unskilled workers for whom there is a shrinking need. Yet, the labor demand that agriculture has most difficulty filling is that for unskilled or low-skilled workers. Add to this the fact that some of the most difficult and least desired physical work left in the U.S. is the stooped labor on farms, and that this work remains the least rewarding to the worker. Poverty caused by low earnings and underemployment is but one aspect of the farm workers' plight. There is also the fact that the relative educational disadvantage of the farm laborer has increased since 1940. The educational attainment of male farm laborers did not increase from 1940 to 1950 or from 1950 to 1959, periods during which there were marked increases for other workers. Much of the unemployment experienced by the farm worker is due to the lack of education that would enable him to qualify for off-season employment. The high positive relationship known to exist between the educational level of parents and the educational attainment of children plus low annual earnings forecast that children from farm labor families will not go to school as much as other children, and thus the cycle of poverty encoils an unborn generation. An evaluation of the impact "automation" has had, and probably will continue to have, on the society can be seen in agriculture--if the tag-name "automation" can be used to designate all forms of technological progression, including mechanization and improved resource allocations, as well as the more sophisticated electronic control and computation devices.
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- 1966
11. Guaranteed Wages and Employment.
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Dale, Ernest
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MINIMUM wage , *EMPLOYMENT , *ECONOMIC activity , *BUSINESS conditions , *RIGHT to work (Human rights) - Abstract
The article presents a discussion on guaranteed wages and employment in the U.S. The guaranteed wage involves three major ideas. First, it is a method of payment; the emphasis generally laid on the hourly rate and to a somewhat lesser extent on the daily and weekly rate is shifted to a rate measured in terms of a substantial number of weeks, months or even a full year. Secondly, it implies the idea of a minimum wage which assumes that a base income sufficient to meet at least subsistence should be paid. Finally, the concept implies the guarantee of employment for a certain period. A guaranteed wage can be best applied, when it is least needed; and when it is most needed, it can be least applied. It appears to be broadly true that highly skilled workers, key workers, maintenance men, and those with high seniority ranking often do not need the guarantee, but it is easiest to give it to them. Guaranteed wages are not a cure for a business cycle depression. They do help to transfer existing social and economic burdens by sharing them between employed and unemployed, but at the same time they may increase the total burden.
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- 1948
12. THE NEW YORK FACTORY INVESTIGATING COMMISSION AND THE MINIMUM WAGE MOVEMENT.
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Kerr IV, Thomas J.
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MINIMUM wage , *MINIMUM wage laws , *FACTORIES , *WAGES , *HISTORY of industrial relations , *LAW , *WOMEN employees - Abstract
The minimum-wage movement on the state level followed a meteoric course in the early twentieth century. In 1911 Wisconsin lawmakers introduced the first bill. The next year Massachusetts became the first state to enact a minimum-wage law for women and children. With some variation eight states had copied Massachusetts by 1913. While New York did not pass such a law, the New York State Factory Investigating Commission (1911-1915) wrote an important chapter in the broader story of the minimum-wage drive during the Progressive Era. Its investigation into wages continued to influence the minimum-wage movement at both the state and national levels, through the 1930s. In the United States progressives restricted their proposals to women and minors because of the tenuous constitutionality of minimum-wage statutes. Opponents of minimum-wage laws would certainly challenge them in the courts as a denial of property rights and, hence, interference with individual liberty. The initial impetus for the minimum-wage movement came from the Consumers' League. Its leaders had urged merchants voluntarily to apply minimum rates to female employees during the 1890's. By 1913 the reformers' drive led to investigations that had successfully persuaded the legislators in nine states to establish minimum-wage acts. The statutes varied. Reformers had not neglected New York. In their early campaigns for voluntary action, Consumers' League leaders had pressured New York. Nationally, the 1938 Fair Labor Standards Act (F.L.S.A.) crowned the minimum-wage movement. Congress passed this law as a result of the 1935 Supreme Court decision against the N.I.R.A. It provided for flat minimum-wage rates, originally 25 cents an hour, but to go up to 40 cents in seven years.
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- 1971
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13. THE A.F.L. AND CHILD-LABOR LEGISLATION: AN EXERCISE IN FRUSTRATION.
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Walker, Roger W.
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CHILD labor laws , *HISTORY of labor , *LABOR laws , *MINIMUM wage , *WORKING hours , *EMPLOYMENT - Abstract
The article focuses on the American Federation of Labor (AFL) and the child-labor legislation in the U.S. One of the lesser-known legislative activities of AFL during the first quarter of the century was its involvement in what amounted to a nation-wide campaign for child-labor legislation. While AFL was quite active legislatively throughout the first half-century or so of its existence, child-labor legislation represents a significant episode for several reasons. First, AFL either decided or was forced to shift its tactics and thinking several times. Second, quite in contrast with most of its legislative efforts, the Federation accomplished absolutely nothing in this case. Finally, in pursuing its child-labor goals, AFL got involved in a cooperative effort with a variety of non-labor groups who were also attempting to effect legislative change in the area. The paper describes the Federation's attempts to obtain some type of federal or state statutes limiting hours of work as well as measures limiting the employment of and providing minimum wages for children.
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- 1970
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14. THE BIG SWITCH: JUSTICE ROBERTS AND THE MINIMUM-WAGE CASES*.
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Chambers, John W.
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MINIMUM wage , *MINIMUM wage laws , *ECONOMIC reform , *LEGAL judgments , *SOCIAL problems , *NEW Deal, 1933-1939 , *GOVERNMENT liability , *LEGISLATION - Abstract
It was in the seventh year of the Chief Justiceship of Charles Evans Hughes that the Supreme Court of the United States gave up the fifty-year fight, which it had been waging intermittently against social and economic reform. The culmination of the Court's campaign came in 1935 and 1936 when, in a little more than twelve months, the high tribunal smashed much of the New Deal program. The Court's final attempt to protect business against government regulation came on June 1, 1936, when it overturned a New York minimum-wage law for women and children. Within twelve months, the Supreme Court surrendered to the New Deal. The judicial bastion of laissez-faire economics crumbled before the concept of governmental responsibility for the state of the economy and the welfare of the people. Central to this change was Justice Owen J. Roberts. Carrying his majority-making ballot like a white flag of truce, Roberts switched from the conservative to the liberal bloc of the Court. State minimum-wage legislation was the focal point of the Court's conversion from an opponent into a supporter of social and economic reform.
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- 1969
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15. RECENT CASES.
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LABOR laws , *MINIMUM wage , *WOMEN'S rights , *VALUATION -- Law & legislation , *LEGAL status of women , *VALUATION - Abstract
The article discusses on several recent court cases. Constitutionality of New York minimum wage law for women. According to the New York Minimum Wage Law it is defined an unreasonable and oppressive wage as one which is less than either the fair value of the employee's services or the cost of living, and declares that the payment of such a wage is against public policy. It further provides that, if such an oppressive wage is found to exist in a given industry, the wage board shall set a minimum fair wage rate.
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- 1936
16. THE JUDICIALITY OF MINIMUM-WAGE LEGISLATION.
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Powell, Thomas Reed
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MINIMUM wage , *LABOR laws , *COLLECTIVE bargaining , *REAL wages , *INCOME - Abstract
The article focuses on the legislation related to the judiciality of minimum wage. Minimum wage legislation has been of two main kinds. One is the Massachusetts variety which vests a commission with power to make inquiries and publish results. Employers are exposed to public knowledge of the wages paid and are thereby subjected to public censure or public praise. Sentiments of decency or of vanity may move the niggardly to mend their ways, but the recalcitrant are left free to bargain as they can and will. The other type of legislation adds physical to moral force. A commission is authorized to discover and to declare the minimum cost of decent subsistence and on this basis to prescribe the minimum wage that may be paid to women and minors. Employment at less than the prescribed wage subjects the employer to punishment.
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- 1924
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17. THE BLUE EAGLE FROM EGG TO EARTH.
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Johnson, Hugh S.
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SMALL business , *MINIMUM wage , *EMPLOYEES - Abstract
Comments on political issues affecting the U.S. National Recovery Administration (NRA). Goal of improving the conditions of workers; Minimum wage of workers; Impact of policies of the NRA on small businesses.
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- 1935
18. "New Republicanism"
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LABOR policy , *MINIMUM wage , *PRESIDENTS of the United States ,UNITED States politics & government, 1953-1961 - Abstract
Focuses on the role of Republican Party in the U.S. politics. Claims made by Undersecretary of Labor Arthur Larson, in his book "A Republican Looks At His Party," that the Republican Party under U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower has become liberal in the true sense; Statement made by Larson explaining that raising the minimum wage to $1 would cause mass unemployment; Stance taken by Eisenhower on minimum wage issue; Contributions of Eisenhower to the Republican Party; Claims of Larson that the Democrats have never proposed extending minimum wage coverage.
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- 1956
19. Correspondence.
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Land, Jay M., Schwelb, Egon, French, Elizabeth, and Rader, David
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LETTERS to the editor , *WORKING hours , *MINIMUM wage - Abstract
Presents letters to the editor referencing articles and topics discussed in previous issues. Comment on the deficiencies of the U.S. Congress, stated in the December 14, 1963 issue; Stages in the procedure of amending the character of the United Nations; "A 35-Hour Week," which discussed the relationship between minimum wage and number of work hours.
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- 1963
20. Economics of the New Frontier.
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Kraft, Joseph
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KEYNESIAN economics , *PRESIDENTS of the United States , *MINIMUM wage ,UNITED States economy, 1961-1971 - Abstract
Emphasizes the importance of the Keynesian economic theory to the U.S. economy under the administration of President John F. Kennedy. List of bills which focus on consumer purchasing power; Measures to improve the quality of the economy; Percentage of increase in the minimum wage of workers in 1962.
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- 1962
21. Workers and Philanthropists.
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Schuchat, Theodor
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MINIMUM wage , *LEGISLATIVE bills , *NONPROFIT organizations , *EMPLOYEES , *LEGISLATIVE amendments , *INDUSTRIAL relations - Abstract
Focuses on the debate over the minimum wage bill sponsored by Senator Carl T. Curtis from Nebraska at the U.S. Senate. Provisions of the bill; Implications of the bill for non-profit organization employees; Amendment to the bill offered by Senator Curtis; Defeat of the amendment proposed by the Senator; Discussion of the gulf between management and labor in the non-profit enterprise.
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- 1961
22. Distressed Areas, Distressed People.
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POVERTY , *GOVERNMENT policy , *UNEMPLOYMENT insurance , *MINIMUM wage , *LEGISLATIVE bills , *AUTOMATION ,UNITED States economic policy, 1945-1960 - Abstract
Discusses the launch of legislative and executive program on poverty in the U.S. Argument on unemployment compensation system; Loopholes in unemployment compensation system; Discussion on the duration of unemployment benefits; Existence of persistent unemployment and continuous automation; Programs and policies by U.S. President Dwight David Eisenhower in 1958 to grant loans to distressed communities; Fixation of minimum wage level for the U.S. workers; Argument that Education and Labor Committee reported a bill adding some 3.4 million more to the program, and raising the wage for all to $1.25.
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- 1960
23. THE HUTTONTOT.
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Othman, Frederick C.
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MINIMUM wage , *UNDEREMPLOYMENT , *WOMEN'S employment , *PERSONAL finance - Abstract
Features Betty Hutton, an underpaid worker of the Director of Economic Stabilization. Total amount of salary being received by Hutton per year; Financial problems being faced by Hutton; Efforts of Hutton to earn a living.
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- 1944
24. Washington Wire.
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T. R. B.
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PRACTICAL politics , *WAGE increases , *MINIMUM wage , *TANKS (Military science) - Abstract
This article reports on recent developments in the field of politics and economy of the U.S. The U.S. Administration panicked when the press suddenly discovered 18 tanks were going to Saudi Arabia. However, some times later the U.S. administration got itself under control and the tanks were sent. The Secretary of State, John Foster Dulles had been on vacation during the tank mess. Herbert Hoover was acting Secretary of State. Dulles who spends so much time traveling that sometimes it is hard to know who is really running the Department, seems to be disassociating himself from the whole blunder. The article further focuses on a wage rise. The U.S.' legal minimum wage rises from 75 cents an hour to $1.
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- 1956
25. Washington Wire.
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PRACTICAL politics , *AGRICULTURAL prices , *MINIMUM wage ,UNITED States politics & government, 1953-1961 - Abstract
The article presents information on political conditions in the U.S. during 1955. U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower has dedicated himself to trying to modernize the Republican Party. He was genuinely astonished to discover in two big elections that the public trusts him, not his party. Pro-labor representatives who want a higher federal minimum wage are going to swap votes with the farm bloc which wants rigid farm-price supports, at 90 percent of parity. It is difficult in instances like this to disentangle what is simple political cynicism from what is genuine feeling for consumers under a big business administration.
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- 1955
26. T.R.B. from Washington.
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MINIMUM wage , *LEGISLATIVE bills , *POLITICAL candidates ,UNITED States politics & government, 1953-1961 - Abstract
Focuses on political developments in the U.S. Circumstances in which politician John F. Kennedy introduced a bill to raise the Federal minimum wage from its present dollar to a dollar-and-a-quarter an hour; Information on several books, which have been written on President Dwight D. Eisenhower's administration; Expectations of people in the U.S. from Kennedy if he becomes President.
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- 1960
27. . The Minimum Wage.
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MINIMUM wage , *NONFICTION - Abstract
Reviews the book "The Minimum Wage," by Rome G. Brown.
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- 1914
28. PROPOSAL TO INCREASE SALARY TESTS FOR EXECUTIVE, ADMINISTRATIVE, AND PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYEE EXEMPTION.
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MINIMUM wage , *OVERTIME - Abstract
Reports that the U.S. Department of Labor has announced a proposal to increase the salary tests for exemption of executive, administrative and professional employees from the Fair Labor Standards Act's minimum wage and overtime pay provisions. Salary test for exemption of executive and administrative employees; Professional employee exemption.
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- 1969
29. The G.O.P. Appeal Is Not to Members of Pressure Groups.
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LIBERALS , *CONSERVATIVES , *UNITED States political parties , *LEGISLATIVE bills , *ELDER care , *MINIMUM wage - Abstract
Focuses on the split between the liberals and conservatives in the U.S. Democratic Party. Reference to collapse of the old-age medical care bill sponsored by Democratic presidential candidate John F. Kennedy, in the Senate recently, and the rough treatment of his minimum wage bill;Pledge to the Democratic party to remove the section from the Taft-Hartley law, which permits the states to have "right-to-work" laws of their own.
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- 1960
30. You be the Judge.
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Donaldson, William
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LEGAL judgments , *WAGES , *BELLHOPS , *HOTELS , *MINIMUM wage - Abstract
Focuses on the ruling of a Wyoming court on a case involving the salary received by a bellhop from a hotel. Minimum wage in the state; Arguments raised by the parties; Provisions of the law on gratuities.
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- 1958
31. Is Anyone Unemployable?
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UNEMPLOYMENT , *MINIMUM wage , *EMPLOYMENT , *EMPLOYABILITY - Abstract
Comments on unemployment in the U.S. in 1971. Inconsistency of minimum wage concept with full employment in a free-market society; Role of a national network of citizen draft boards in the employability of the U.S. people; Significance of employment to people.
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- 1971
32. No Decrease In Jobs Due To Increase In FLSA Minimum Pay.
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Burns, John E.
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MINIMUM wage - Abstract
Focuses on Fair Labor Standards Act minimum pay in the United States. Increase in minimum pay; Possibility of decrease in jobs.
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- 1968
33. MINIUM WAGE VIOLATIONS.
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MINIMUM wage , *BUSINESS enterprises , *CHARTS, diagrams, etc. - Abstract
Presents a chart depicting the minimum wage violations of various businesses in the U.S.
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- 1966
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