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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.

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.

The article reports that Hubert Horatio Humphrey has ran for the presidential seat in the August 1968 election in the U.S. It states that Humphrey has sketched a post-Viet Nam foreign policy that will open doors and will build peaceful bridges toward Communist China. Moreover, Humphrey has guaranteed an educational minimum wage to every American child.

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.

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 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.

A quiz about politics in the U.S. is presented.

The article discusses the demands of U.S. organized labor on Congress in 1949. According to the author, union are staunch supporters of a national housing program and are demanding more low-to-moderate priced homes for humanitarian reasons. Labor unions are also calling for the expansion of the steel and electrical power industries, increase of minimum wage, expansion of social security, and the repeal of the Taft-Hartley Act.

The article reports on issues to be discussed during the 1948 conventions of the American Federation of Labor (AFL) and the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO). U.S. Secretary of Labor Maurice J. Tobin will participate in both meetings to find out what labor would accept in terms of new legislation and the department's reorganization. The organizations' desire to repeal the Taft-Hartley Act and the possible re-enactment of some of its provisions is considered. A call for an increase in the minimum wage to 75 cents per hour is discussed.

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.

The Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) has opened its new wage drive by publishing a report showing that real wages have fallen sharply in the past two years, while corporate profits have tremendously expanded. The Moscow session of the Council of Foreign Ministers will at last bring the Big Four (the United States, Great Britain, Soviet Union, China) face to face with the gravest and most complex problem of all, that of Germany. Victory on the Spanish Issue came after one of the most heated and interesting debates that has yet taken place in the United Nations.

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.

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.

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 presents information related to political issues. The agitation started at Chicago over the question of a minimum wage for women has been attracting attention throughout the country. In a number of States, movements of the same character have been initiated. It may still be true that the world is governed with little wisdom, but it cannot be governed at all without certain political virtues. Chief among these should be inclined to reckon sincerity. This gives public men power while they are alive, and causes their fame to grow after they are dead.

This article discusses the implementation of a shorter working day and a minimum wage as a solution to the unemployment problem in the U.S. The author looks at how industry leaders cut prices to make goods more affordable, but the lower prices caused more people to become unemployed. Also, unfair competition from business owners who institute long hours for low pay add to the problem. The author discusses a legislative bill introduced in the U.S. Congress that would only put a cap on the amount of hours allowed to work, which in effect would lower unemployment. A minimum wage would eliminate unfair competition of that sort, and would place more purchasing power into the hands of those employed.

The article discusses the state of the U.S. economy as of January 15, 1954. Shorter average factory work and growing unemployment insurance queues presents a gloomy view of the economy, says the article. The move of U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower to championing more defense contracts for surplus labor areas is noted. The steel industry is having hard time getting untracked while less heavily unionized industrialists were not sanguine due to an anticipated boost in minimum wage levels.

The article presents the views of heads of U.S. corporations, small businessmen, labor and farm leaders on the feasibility of establishing a guaranteed annual wage. W.A. Patterson, president of United Air Lines, stresses the importance of production or sales stability to have security for employees. M.E. McMartin of Allen Electric & Equipment Co. finds the proposal as a brake on expansion. J.P. Seiberling, president of Seiberling Rubber Co., disagrees due to lack of guaranteed annual sales.

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.

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.

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.

The present textile strike really began on July 17, 1934 when about 24,000 workers in more than forty mills in northern Alabama voted to go out. For the first time in their lives these Southern workers left their looms and spindles to answer the strike call of the United Textile Workers, and it was the accumulated grievances and the great fervor of the newly organized South sweeping like a tide over the national convention that forced the general strike, with its basic demands for the thirty-hour week, a $12 minimum wage, elimination of the "stretch-out," reinstatement of union workers, and collective bargaining. The spread of organization in the South is almost phenomenal. It is safe to say that more than 150,000 workers are already unionized in North and South Carolina, Tennessee, Georgia, Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana, and Virginia.

The final indictment of the U.S. labor policy emerging froth the Recovery Act appears in the codes themselves. The codes so far reported set wages at so low a level, so little above the lowest generally paid, that it seems likely that they will defeat even their single end of enlarging purchasing power. The blanket code leaves wages above the minimum to be determined by the employer thereby forbidding cuts and urging equitable readjustments. In the face of swiftly increasing prices this may actually result in widespread reductions in real wages. Employers can raise prices without conference, labor cannot raise wages at all.

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.

The recent decision of the United States Supreme Court, declaring the minimum wage law of the District of Columbia unconstitutional and imperiling the minimum wage laws of the several States, has brought sharply to the attention of the country the increasing power of the Supreme Court over national and State legislation. A storm of protest has followed the minimum wage decision and a number of plans have been suggested for limiting the power of the Supreme Court to declare laws unconstitutional.

This article presents information on various socio-political developments around the world. It is informed that Massachusetts has a voluntary minimum-wage law. In the women's clothing industry an occupational wage board consisting of six representatives of employers in the industry, six representatives of the employees, and three of the public, last year unanimously fixed $14 as the minimum wage for experienced women workers. Enforcement of such a minimum wage cannot be compelled, but the commission has the right to advertise the names of employers who refuse to abide by it.

On September 19, 1918, the U.S. Congress passed a law providing for the fixing of minimum wages for women and child workers in the District of Columbia. It established a Minimum Wage Board, representing employers, employees, and the public, with power, after investigation and public hearing, to fix in certain industries minimum wages sufficient to safeguard the health and morals of the workers. The Supreme Court, by a bare majority of its membership, had placed its veto upon the legislation and declared it unconstitutional, as an interference with the liberty of contract without due process of law. Lack of contact with industrial realities seemed to have led the court into another strange fallacy concerning the relative importance of hours and wages. The constitutionality of laws limiting hours of service had been sustained, and these cases had not unnaturally been relied upon as authority for the minimum-wage law.

The article presents information related to social and political issues of the world. It states that an explosion killed seventy men five hundred feet underground in a Pennsylvania coal mine. Despite a long strike and months of idle mines accidents killed 1,186 coal miners between January 1 and September 30 of this year. Justice Van Orsdell of the Court of Appeals of Washington has decided that the minimum wage law of Washington is invalid. A minimum wage for women, he holds, denies the equal protection of the law to rich and poor, to strong and weak, to all classes alike without distinction.

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 discusses the impact of the increase in minimum-wage on low-pay industries in the U.S. in 1950. The Wage-Hour Administration believes that the 75-cent minimum wage has no serious effect on low-pay industries. Most complaints against the wage hike have come from low-pay areas in Southern U.S. as many workers there were earning between 40 cents to 65 cents per hour. A closer look into the impact of the wage increase is provided by discussing the case of the lumber industry in Alabama.