Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, in a unanimous decision, the Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of the Federal wage-hour law, guaranteeing minimum wages and a maximum work week to millions of workers, and outlawing child labor in interstate commerce. The decision, read with great satisfaction by jowly, wise, old Justice Harlan Fiske Stone, specifically overruled the Court's 23-year-old Hammer v. Dagenhart decision, regarded by liberals as the farthest north in reaction. With this legal victory the New Deal was finally legitimized, its last major social reform riveted into place...
...jobs would be classed under two general headings, college work and graduate work. The former, since it is relatively unskilled, is rewarded with a lower minimum, maximum, and average wage than the latter, both per hour anl per month. A student in the College would earn something over $13 a month on the average at from $30 to $50 an hour...
Administration would involve the same problems generally as does the T.S.E., it was asserted, and therefore both programs could be managed from the present T.S.E, office. Expense could be reduced to a minimum by employing the administrative assistants themselves on NYA funds, which was done successfully at Tufts College...
...International Harvester Co.'s Chicago plant, a strike of 6,500 C. I. O. employes delayed work on several million dollars' worth of Army tractors. Union leaders, charging that the company was holding up settlement by "endless conferences," demanded a 75?-an-hour minimum wage rate for men; for women...
...solution: diversification and mechanization of southern farms, restoration of their soil and forests, industrialization. The cotton problem would then take care of itself. But "you can't clear the stream below as long as the old sow wallows in the spring above." Mr. Comer figured that a minimum 32? an hour in a factory was better for a Georgia boy than 90? a day in the fields...