| United States. Bureau of Labor Statistics - Labor - 1949 - 784 pages
...Labor Standards Act was enacted, although 40 cents then was recognized as inadequate to meet * * * the minimum standard of living necessary for health, efficiency, and general well-being of workers." It therefore urged a minimum wage of $1 an hour for all workers, whether in continental United States... | |
| Labor laws and legislation - 1967 - 788 pages
...endorsed objectives, but to be employed equally to sub-standard wages Is no social achievement at all. The "minimum standard of living necessary for health, efficiency, and general well-being of workers" must be attained. . . . Poverty Is not restricted to the unemployed alone. Many who are counted among... | |
| United States. Bureau of Labor Statistics - 1949 - 786 pages
...Labor Standards Act was enacted, although 40 cents then was recognized as inadequate to meet * * * the minimum standard of living necessary for health, efficiency, and general well-being of workers." It therefore urged a minimum wage of $1 an hour for all workers, whether in continental United States... | |
| United States. National Railroad Adjustment Board - Arbitration, Industrial - 716 pages
...Congress intended to establish higher standards and to "eliminate" . . . "labor conditions detrimental to the maintenance of the minimum standard of living necessary for health, efficiency, and the general well-being of workers." Your petitioners submit that this Honorable Board is not concerned... | |
| United States. Bureau of Labor Statistics - Labor - 1939 - 1542 pages
...engaged in commerce or in the production of goods for commerce, of labor conditions detrimental to the maintenance of the minimum standard of living...health, efficiency and general well-being of workers" burdened commerce, and constituted an unfair method of competition, and that it led to labor disputes... | |
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