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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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Focuses on Fair Labor Standards Act minimum pay in the United States. Increase in minimum pay; Possibility of decrease in jobs.

Presents a chart depicting the minimum wage violations of various businesses in the U.S.