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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.