Sugar Act Extension, 1974: Hearings Before the Committee on Agriculture, House of Representatives, Ninety-third Congress, Second Session, on H.R. 12525 |
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Agriculture allocation American amount approximately ARTHUR LEE QUINN assure Australia average Belize benefits BERGLAND Brazil cents Chairman commitment committee Congress consumers consumption Costa Rica crop deficit DELLALE DENHOLM domestic Dominican Republic economic farm farmers Fiji FINDLEY first-come first-served foreign suppliers GARZA going GOODLING Government growers important income increase India investment labor legislation Louisiana Malagasy Republic Malawi MATSUNAGA Mauritius MAYNE ment million tons mills National participation payments percent Philippines present price objective Puerto Rico question RARICK raw value reasonable representing Secretary BUTZ SEEGER ship shipments short tons South Africa statement Sugar Agreement sugar beet sugar cane sugar exports sugar industry sugar production sugar quota sugar workers sugarcane supply Swaziland Thailand Thank tion tons of sugar trade U.S. dollars U.S. market U.S. price U.S. quota U.S. Sugar Act U.S. sugar program United USDA wage WAMPLER West Indies world market world price ZWACH
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Page 118 - ... that may be determined by the Secretary to be fair and reasonable after investigation and due notice and opportunity for public hearing.
Page 91 - Workers 14 and 15 years of age and full-time students when employed on a time basis. For workers 14 and 15 years of age and, where the Secretary of Labor has by certificate or order provided for the employment of full-time students 14 years of age or older on a part-time basis (not...
Page 139 - In addition, the State should see to it that labor agreements are entered into according to the norms of justice and equity, and that in the environment of work the dignity of the human being is not violated either in body or spirit.
Page 118 - ... (a) That no child under the age of fourteen years shall have been employed or permitted to work on the farm, whether for gain to such child or any other person, in the production, cultivation, or harvesting of a crop of...
Page 92 - These criteria establish a vicious cycle and perpetuate it. Farm labor wages and earnings are abysmally low in part because the minimum wages established by the Sugar Act are low. And the Act's minimums are low because farm labor wages and earnings are low.
Page 139 - Wherefore, we judge it to be our duty to reaffirm once again that just as remuneration for work cannot be left entirely to unregulated competition, neither may it be decided arbitrarily at the will of the more powerful. Rather, in this matter, the norms of justice and equity should be strictly observed.
Page 169 - In compliance with the requirements of the Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938, as amended, and the rules and regulations...
Page 309 - It has further been agreed that the enlarged Community will have as its firm purpose the safeguarding of the interests of the developing countries concerned whose economies depend to a considerable extent on the export of primary products and in particular of sugar.
Page 118 - That all persons employed on the farm in the production, cultivation, or harvesting of sugar beets or sugarcane with respect to which an application for payment is made shall have been paid in full for all such work, and shall have been paid wages therefor at rates not less than those that may be determined by the Secretary to be fair and reasonable after investigation and due notice and opportunity...
Page 226 - ... economic development, with a view that national status is more likely to flow from such participation and development than from mere assertion. Mexico has been a member of the United Nations (or in Spanish, Organization de Naciones Unidas or ONU) and most of its agencies since its founding in 1945.