Word: laborer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After ten laborious days and nights, conferees of the House and Senate brought out at last week's end a compromise on the Wages-&-Hours Bill to put a floor under Labor's pay, a ceiling over its working week...
...Senate had planned to set up an independent Fair Labor Standards Board. with quasi-judicial powers (like NLRB's) to halt the transit in interstate commerce of goods produced under conditions not conforming to the act. The House planned to empower the Labor Department to go into the States and see to it that goods for interstate commerce were legally produced. The House won, and the compromise bill's administrative provisions strongly reminded businessmen of NRA's myriad code authorities. Chief provisions of the bill...
Flexibility. When, 120 days after enactment, the bill should become effective, the Wage-Hour Administrator, a $10,000 official in the Department of Labor, would begin to examine wages & hours in all industries in interstate commerce to see where and when minimum wages should be flexed up and minimum hours down, toward the 40-40 ratio. He would appoint up to 750 boards, representing Industry. Labor and the Consuming Public, to make these studies and give him recommendations. If the Administrator should not like the findings of any board, he could veto them, create another board. To collect pay awarded...
...yards of cotton textiles for its sewing projects (an increase of 45,000,000 yards over previous orders), WPA explained that one reason for expanding the order was to make work for the textile mills. But so far. Franklin Roosevelt has resisted every pressure for subsidizing labor through industry...
Because some judges have abused the power to restrain unions, recent Federal legislation has treated U. S. District judges like problem children. In most labor disputes. Federal injunctions are forbidden by the Norris-LaGuardia Act. The Wagner Act routes , appeals from NLRB decisions direct to U. S. Circuit Courts, forbids lower courts to enjoin the Board, in general assumes that the less District judges have to say about labor cases the better...