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This article offers world news briefs. The social revolution initiated in the Chinese countryside has been treated with reserve by Moscow and its European satellites. Predictions about an hourly minimum wage increase in the U.S. are discussed. Additionally, U.S. Republican Senator Jacob K. Javits emphasized the need for selective tax concessions.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Comments on the support of the U.S. Supreme Court of the minimum wage statute of the state of Washington which overruled its decision of 1923 in Adkins versus the Children's Hospital. Establishment of the constitutionality of minimum-wage legislation for all workers; Reform of American constitutional law; Application of the Wagner National Labor Relations Act to certain industrial establishments engaged in interstate commerce; Provisions of the Wagner Act.

Presents information on various social and political developments around the world. Declaration of the National Industrial Recovery Act to be unconstitutional, by the U.S. Supreme Court; Expectation that new legislation protecting the worker might be passed before the code regulations regarding the minimum wages, maximum hours and the elimination of child labor; Estimate of loss of life in the Indian earthquake; Increase in tension between China and Japan; Increase in violations of civil liberties at American educational institutions; Information on the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute at Troy, New York, the oldest institution of higher learning in any English-speaking country that has devoted itself continuously to instruction and research in science and engineering. Removal of the Summer School for Women Workers in Industry from the campus of Bryn Mawr College, where it has been quartered for the past fourteen years; Information on U.S. senator Royal S. Copeland's Pure Food and Drug Bill, which passed the U.S. Senate last week; Exploitation of Indians, by white people in Oklahoma. Information on the French liner "Normandie," that reached New York harbor this week after a record crossing of the North Atlantic in four days and eleven hours.

Focuses on the enforcement of National Recovery Administration codes on American businesses. Support given by large groups of manufacturers to labor provisions of codes; Need of small and large business groups for fair-trade-practices; Information on sculptors that compromise a small group, easily distinguishable from the mass of chiselers and who are the most intelligent law dodgers; Increase in partnership in order to get around the payment of minimum wages; Declaration that it is illegal to have employees pay part of their wages into stock and bond issues in order to keep sinking companies going; Scheme to deduct half week's wages of workers to meet operating expenses of a company.

Focuses on several political and economic developments around the world. Speech given by German dictator Adolph Hitler before German legislative assembly, for the meeting of the League Council at which the Italian aggression against Utopia was to be discussed; Adoption of Wagner-labor dispute bill, which seems likely to become a law; Attempt of the U.S. to oppose a national new-party ticket in 1936 elections; Arguments related to the setting of relief wages below prevailing wages; Information about the decision taken by the Supreme Court in Herndon case; Action taken by a U.S. Secretary in anti-fascist movement; Information on the events at William College over the increasing successful movement to boycott the Hearst-Metrotone at colleges and universities; Details of fascism in Italy and Germany; Vote of the Filipinos in favor of the new Commonwealth Constitution under which they will obtain freedom; Strike of workers in lumber industry in the Pacific Northwest against code of forty hour week and a minimum wage of 42.5 cents; Speech given by Rexford G. Tugwell, under-secretary of Agriculture in which he predicted that if one does not change its ways large parts of the Middle West will become desert in three hundred years; Details of an advertisement published in various newspapers.

Focuses on the socio-political conditions in the world, with emphasis on the U.S. Efforts of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt in bringing about immediate reemployment of labor by shorter hours coupled with higher minimum wages; View that the employers who will give higher minimum wages can also make it a reason to increase prices of goods and subsequently exploit the consumer; Overview of the scenario of labor strikes in the U.S.; Indication in the report of Frances Perkins, Secretary of Labor, depicting the conditions in the shirt-manufacturing industry, the need for a general increase in the sweatshop wages; Dissatisfaction in the South over the operation of the government's cotton-leasing program; Blame on the Nazis and the Communists in Germany for creating a situation of unrest in the nation; Reflection of lack of coordination amongst the people of Germany in election in the German Protestant Church since the Gospel-and-Church faction behind the Reverend Dr. Friedrich von Bodelschwing, the representative of the German Nationalists, refused to recognize the newly elected church officers and protested the election after its defeat, charging that the Nazis had obtained their victory by the use of illegal practices; Conditions of Jews in Germany; Increase in abuse of American Jews in Germany after the American President's failure to intervene in Berlin against Jewish persecution; Critical analysis of Italian General Italo Balbo's continuation of airplane flight from Italy to Chicago; Advantages of the amalgamation of the two American trade unions-- United Flatters of North America, and the Cloth Hat, Cap and Millinery Workers' International Union for the labor movement in the nation.

Explains that Rome G. Brown is a lawyer who has fought living wage legislation in the United States, and is the author of a brief filed before the Supreme Court in Oregon. Practice in which businesses pay its labor less than the labor can live on; Damning wage statistics revealed in one state after another and clinched by the Factory Investigation Commission in New York; Brown is against compulsory minimum wage but he is for the ethical minimum wage; Under Massachusetts law, a Minimum Wage Commission may establish Wages Boards in particular industries; Brown has come to fear the tyranny of public opinion.

Presents several political and socio-economic issues affecting the U.S. Attempt of the Foreign Offices of Great Britain and Germany to make their enemy responsible for the increasingly frequent and flagrant violations in the international laws; Appeal of the State Department to allow the importation of food in Germany; Appointment on George Rublee in the new Trade Commission; Adjournment of the Congress and the assemblage to a searching investigation into the needs of the military establishment; Speech of Senator Albert Fall for advocating a joint intervention in Mexico by the U.S. and the so-called A.B.C. powers; Question on the Interstate Commerce Commission for alleged irregularities; Non-interference of the U.S. in the state of affairs in Mexico; Submission of a memorandum by the National Consumers' League to the Public Service Commission for the reduction of telephone service; Party politics in the Socialist Party; Plan of New York to follow Massachusetts in the matter of minimum wage legislation; Efforts of the seamen's union to urge Congress to pass a law to guarantee safety of common sailors; Death of Indian statesman G. K. Gokhale; News from various dispatches.

Focuses on several legislative bills, which were proposed in the U.S. House, along with the explanations on their voting in the House. Consent of the House for a resolution permitting chairmen of committees to report bills directly to the floor 21 days after the U.S. House Rules Committee had considered them; Rejection of the amendment proposed by congressional representative of Michigan, Jesse Wolcott, that would have sent the bill back to the House committee with instructions to change the extension of rent controls; Approval of the social-security bill by the House following a debate; Attempt of Congressional representative John E. Rankin of Mississippi to propose a veteran's pension bill through the House Committee which was sent back to itself for reconsideration; Rejection of a farm program in the House, proposed by U.S. Secretary for the Department of Agriculture Charles F. Brannan; Approval of a bill outlawing payment of a poll tax as a requirement for voting in a primary or general election for federal officeholders; Consent for a bill designed to strengthen the Clayton Anti-Trust Act; Approval of a bill that would exempt the operations of independent natural-gas producers, including their sales to interstate pipeline companies, from jurisdiction of the Federal Power Commission; Approval of a minimum-wage bill by the House, which excluded some one million workers from the 22,600,000 covered under the existing Wage-Hour Act; Voting on a bill by Southern Democratic-Republican coalition, which substituted the provisions of the Taft-Hartley Act for the U.S. administration's labor bill; Approval of a labor bill with its Taft-Hartley provisions; Consent for the U.S. administration's bill to extend the Reciprocal Trade Agreements program; Approval of a bill by the House to deduct funds and limit scope of the U.S. Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs.

Focuses on a testimony before the U.S. House Labor Committee which shows that conditions in a variety of industries demand new action in a legislative bill that demarcates minimum-wage standards. Standards of wage prevailing in the country; Protection of labor standards by the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938; Categories of workers who are not covered under the act; Failure of the Portal-to-Portal-Pay Act of 1947 to enhance the ratio of wage and hour; Lack of effectiveness in raising standards for children employed in establishments that do not produce goods for commerce; Extent to which child labor is protected in the act; Proposal of a bill in the Labor Committee which can be used to cover more number of labors in the country; Types of labors who have been considered in the bill.

Focuses on presidential responsibilities which should be enacted by U.S. President Harry S. Truman. Speech given by Truman to discuss his position in the Congress; Steps taken by Truman to solve economic problems like unemployment, minimum wages and labor disputes; Statement that Truman blamed particular committees responsible for holding up essential legislation.

The article offers world news briefs for the week of August 27, 1945. Particular focus is given to a review of military operations in the latter stages of the Pacific theater of war during World War II. The war trial of Henri Pétain of France is also discussed. Further article topics include the introduction of a bill into the U.S. Senate which would raise the minimum wage and the raising of standards throughout U.S. states of unemployment benefits.

Discusses several political issues involving the U.S. Alliance between the English government of Ireland and the U.S.; Decision of the U.S. Court of Appeals in the case of the District of Columbia's Minimum Wage Act; Pittsburgh Employers' Association's issuance of letters to its members intended to dissuade them from contributing to religious organizations.

Comments on the global political and socio-economic issues. Interpretation of the Article 429 of the Treaty of Versailles by French Commission member André Tradieu; Insistence of U.S. President Woodrow Wilson upon the establishment of an independent Armenian state; Objective of the New York League of Americanism; Role of the anti-Bolshevist crusade and the National Civic Federation in the blocking of welfare bills at Albany; Estimation of the number of women earning below a living wage in New York.

Presents information on various political and social developments all round the world. Promise made by U.S. President Thomas Woodrow Wilson to France; Comments on the most important decision made by the Peace Conference regarding its decision to send no armies into Soviet Union and to send food and medical supplies instead; Revival and restoration of industries and civil liberties in Soviet Union; Speech delivered by the political candidate Lloyd George; Impact of strikes in all the principal manufacturing cities in the North on business; Comments on strikes in various countries; Reports on the present trouble in Korea; Claims that six powerful French trade unions have set May first as the day for a demonstration of their solidarity; Information on a set of thirteen industrial principles; Information about the new programme of the Illinois Labor Party; Statement made for R.W. France, one of the most active opponents of the League of Nations, by the Executive Committee of the British Labor Party; Comments on a group of bills providing for health insurance and the establishment of a minimum wage and an eight-hour day for women and children in industry; Suggestions about the roads to publicity; Comments on the collapse of industry in Soviet Union; Comments on a shift in labor ranks; Reports that a trade Union College has been opened in Boston; Claims that a newspaper in Fort Wayne, Indiana, has been conducting a straw vote on candidates for the next presidential nominations; Information about three successive nation-wide strikes in the U.S.; Effect of the anti-German language bill in the U.S.; Reports on the first sale of government ships to private owners; Claims that trade unions ought not only be recognized as part of the country's industrial machinery, they ought to be statutorily incorporated, to be capable of suing and being sued; Resolution taken by the Board of Education in the New York City.

Focuses on political developments all round the world. Information about Victory Liberty Loan drive in the U.S.; Changes in the League of Nations Covenant; Opinion of England regarding the political developments in Paris; Claims that three hundred French Deputies and a large number of Senators have signed a manifesto demanding that the full cost of the war be imposed upon Germany; Resolution of the National Assembly demanding a treaty based on the fourteen points, with no changes in territory in violation of that programme, in Germany; Threat of mutiny in American ranks; Result of starvation in Soviet Union; Comments on impression Bolsheviki make on American newspaper owner in Budapest; Report on the socialist government of Bavaria; Nullification of the twenty-one demands made by Japan in 1915; Recommendations in the report of the Committee on International Labor Legislation; Information about a national conference of employers and workers in England; Comments on the controversy over steel prices in the U.S.; Report on the Savings Bank Section of the Americans Bankers' Association; Policy of the U.S. government to retain its title to the ships and arrange for their operation by private or semi-public shipping corporations; Violation of Espionage act; Report that the minimum wage recommended for women by the Factory Investigation committee of New York State was $9; Increase in the wages granted by the Railway Administration in the U.S.

Presents information on the socio-political developments in several countries. View that the enmity between Soviet Union and Germany will cut the Soviet Union from future commercial and industrial development and condemn them to remain an association of agricultural villages; Information that the housing for the workers employed in shipbuilding in the U.S. is assured under the act appropriating $50,000,000 for this purpose; Results of the passage by the U.S. Congress of the Trammell-Keating bill to establish a minimum wage for women in the District of Columbia.

Comments on the case of economic theory against the minimum wage presented by Professor Taussig in the "Quarterly Journal of Economics." Description of Taussig's illumination of economic theory; Acceptance of the hypothesis of perfect competition which have been proved useful in the handling of many economic problems especially those relating to currency and to wholesale prices.

Comments on several issues relevant to foreign policy and domestic policies in the U.S. Prospects for an approaching peace after the war; Issuance by the California Industrial Welfare Commission of an order fixing minimum time and piece rates for women and minors employed in the canning industry; Votation on women suffrage in Iowa.

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.

Discusses the proposed wages-and-hours legislation in the U.S. Resolution to the unemployment problem during the economic recovery period; Factors influencing the national regulation for minimum wage and maximum hours; Restrictions of bidders for government contracts to firms complying with the standards in collective-bargaining agreements; Need for improvement in the labor standards; Legislative control over marketing practices.

Focuses on the social conditions of labor under the Fascist Prime Minister of Italy, Benito Mussolini. Fact that Mussolini has never made the slightest effort to reduce the extraordinary inequality in the ownership of property that characterizes Italy; Reference to a study on farm laborers by economist Paola Arcari; Reduction in the real wages of the town and city workers under fascism; Information on the social services under the Fascist regime; Deterioration of the public finance and taxation.

The article focuses on a special report prepared by a group of economists for the Brookings Institution, which found that the U.S. National Recovery Association (NRA) had retarded recovery, injured the wage earner and diminished the volume of production. View that the report concludes in no uncertain terms that the code machinery suffers from defects so serious as to be irremediable without abolishing the codes themselves, and that the NRA has on the whole retarded recovery; Increase in the purchasing power of the average employed worker, for the cost of living rose as fast as his income; Inconsistency concerning the collective-bargaining sections; disagreement with the economic theory of the authors of the report.

Presents letters to the editor referencing article published and topics discussed in the previous issues of this journal. "Newswriters vs. the N.R.A.," by John Scribner in July 4 issue; Focus on an appeal by the Emergency Committee for Strikers' Relief; Focus on difficulties of working people to obtain a semblance of fairness under the North American Industrial Representatives Association; Agreement by the publishers to make a survey of hours, wages and working condition, in news departments to determine maximum hours and minimum wages for news-department employees in an appropriate code provision.

Focuses on the criticism of the New Deal, i.e. policies adopted by President Franklin D. Roosevelt for the social and economic welfare of the country. Description of the New Deal as a plan for regimentation for depriving Americans of economic liberty, by U.S. Secretary of Treasury, Ogden Mills; Documents received by Roosevelt discussing the drawbacks of the New Deal; Statement signed by several reformist leaders citing that the real test of the New Deal lies in its effect on the actual distribution of the wealth; Call for the creation of a Labor Board in the U.S. Department of Labor; Requirement of amending the minimum wage provisions of the New Deal; Emphasis of the reformists that there should be a tie-up between the Securities Act and the U.S. National Recovery Administration (NRA); Report of lawyer Clarence Darrow received by Roosevelt, about his New Deal; Criticism of the type of industrial control in the nation; Allegation in the report that the NRA has strengthened private monopoly; Demand of socialized ownership and control.

Concentrates on the drive to raise minimum wages, shorten hours and guarantee collective bargaining in order to bring prosperity in industries of the U.S. after the Depression. Abjuration of discrimination against women and children on the question of minimum wages; Acknowledgement of the plans laid down by the U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the form of the New Deal; Investment in private capital to ameliorate U.S. economy; Discussion on the long lasting impact of the New Deal; Ban of unfair competition, earlier done in the form of secret rebates, misrepresentation of competitors' good, and no pirating of trade marks and labels.

Provides several opinions on international politics, U.S. politics and culture. Impact of the sinking of the Lusitania ship on U.S.-German relations; Creation of the substitute for the protocol in the Cloak, Suit and Industry of New York; Speech of Democratic leader Nugent in relation to the speech of Senator Elihu Root in the New York Constitutional Convention of 1894 opposing woman suffrage; Testimony of Professor James H. Brewster before the Industrial Relations Commission on the matter of the Colorado strike; Criticism on the inclusion of Sir Edward Carson in the British coalition cabinet in tackling the Ulster issue; Stand of the National Association of Manufacturers on the minimum wage issue; Cooperation of inventors Thomas Edison and Orville Wright in the U.S. science of naval warfare.

Discusses the preliminary report of the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) about the legislative minimum wage. NAM quote on the parable of the laborers in the vineyard; Analysis on the state about the enactment of the legislative minimum wage in agricultural states; Failure to mention Oregon and Washington's real legislative minimum wage on the report; Compulsory arbitration in Australia from the minimum wage as proposed in the United States; Assertions and counter-assertion on the issue of minimum wage.

Discusses the establishment of a legal minimum wage in the brush industry in Massachusetts. Problems associated with the implementation of minimum wage; Board established by the Massachusetts Minimum Wage Commission to consider what minimum should be fixed; Effects of an increase of the rate of pay; Tendency of employers to reconsider their methods of business organization and management; Tendency for greater efficiency on the part of the employees.

Presents opinions of the U.S. Chief Justice William Howard Taft and lawyer Justice Holmes regarding the recent Supreme Court decision in the District of Columbia minimum wage case. Comments on legislatures in limiting freedom of contract between employee and employer; Information about the right of the legislature under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments to limit the hours of employment on the score of the health of the employee; Claims that long hours of labor have a more direct effect upon the health of the employee than the low wage; Application of the minimum wage to women; Adoption of the Nineteenth Amendment.

Focuses on activities of the Railroad Labor Board in the U.S. Description of the living wage theory; Comment that no industry is a national asset unless it pays full maintenance; Provisions of the industrial maintenance wage system for coming generations; Information on the basis of a permanent system of private enterprise; Demands of workers regarding their wages; Opportunity for the Railroad Labor Board to public service.

Focuses on the principle of legal minimum wage in Great Britain with emphasis on report of the committee appointed to inquire into the effect of the Trade Boards acts. Success of the Trade Boards in abolishing the grosser forms of underpayment and in regularizing wage conditions in trades brought under the acts; Complaints which led to appointment of the committee; Judgment on the impracticability of a legal minimum wage; Significance of the Trade Boards; Main criticism of the Trade Boards by the committee; Recommendations by the committee for the effectiveness of the Trade Boards.

Focuses on the statement of Congress of Industrial Organizations' (CIO) president Phillip Murray who warns that the use of troops to combat the strike at the North American airplane factory in Inglewood, California, might create a state of enforced labor, which will lead to bitterness on the part of working people. Lack of advance notice for General Lewis Blaine Hershey's order to local draft boards to reconsider the status of striking workers; Probability of outlawing the Communist Party following outbreak of the strike; Demand for a hike in minimum wage per hour during the strike; Emphasis on Communist leadership of the CIO local at Inglewood; Vigil on new entrants into the industry by aircraft companies; Meeting between company representatives and the union before the Mediation Board; Outbreak of the strike following the failure to reach an agreement on minimum wage issue.

Focuses on the issues related to labor rights in the defense program of the United States. Attempt to undermine the labor movement by the reactionary forces; Request by the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) for an executive order denying government contracts to firms held to be violating the labor laws enacted by the U.S. Congress; Indictment of Henry Ford of Ford Motor Co. in six separate cases for violation of the National Labor Relations Act; Role of Vultee aircraft strike in damaging labor's confidence in the defense program; Demand for increased wages in industries which are organized; Information on the negotiations between U.S. Steel and the Steel Workers Organizing Committee; Demand of the CIO to increase the minimum wage rate paid to the workers of the aircraft industry; Argument on labor's right to strike.

The article offers news briefs related to politics worldwide. The widening of schisms is posing danger to the Nationalist movement in China. A convincing evidence was provided by the Industrial Welfare Commission of California against few principal theoretical arguments that were attacking the minimum wage. Moreover, the prominence of the U.S. as a refuge for upholders of the political ideas is slowly ruined starting from the fate of deportee Mario Chiossone.

Comments on the need to stabilize the living wage in the U.S. Assertion on the result of high cost of living; Citation of the economic impact of war; Fear among employers on the occurrence of price slump; Difficulty of balancing wages and price level; Benefit of modifying the form of wage contract; Argument on the existence of struggle between labor and capital over the surplus of production.

Discusses the demands of loggers in its hold of a strike against lumber companies in the U.S. Aim of the loggers to improve camp conditions; Demand for a minimum wage and an eight-hour day; Request of the strikers for the recognition of the labor union; Decision of the lumber companies to form the Lumbermen's Protective League as an answer to the strikers; Move of the government to settle the strike with the establishment of the eight-hour day.

Presents several letters to the editor referencing articles and topics discussed in previous issues. Response to the political conditions in Mexico criticizing the stand of the journal for armed intervention for Mexico's redemption; Response to the article "Beclouding the Minimum Wage," by Professor Taussig in the July 22, 1916 issue citing the impact of the minimum wage on the number of people for employment; Response to the article "The Feminist's Age," by Hester A. Hopkins in the July 22 issue regarding the relationship between feminism and chivalry;.

Looks at how the federal law has worked during the years that Justice Higgins, President of the Court of Conciliation and Arbitration, has been the only official charged with its enforcement. Proceeding of the Court upon the assumption that no industry is legal which cannot and does not pay a living wage; Discussion of the uncertainty in applying new wage to those employers whose profits are ample.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.