Word: waging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Elsie Parrish. Off & on from 1933 to 1935, the Cascadian Hotel of Wenatchee, Wash, employed Mrs. Elsie Parrish as chambermaid for $12 a week. Under Washington's Minimum Wage Law for women she should have got $14.50 for her 48-hour week. She demanded what the law said was coming to her. The hotel offered $17 in settlement. Elsie Parrish spurned it. She sued...
...lawyer could have told her that she did not have a Chinawoman's chance of getting it. Washington's Minimum Wage Law was no New Deal upstart. It was passed in 1913. About the same time Oregon passed a similar law. Oregon's law ' was tested in the Courts. The Supreme Court approved it in 1917 by a 4-4 vote, Justice Louis Brandeis (who had helped prepare briefs in the case before his appointment to the Court) not voting. Six years later another minimum wage law passed by Congress for the District of Columbia came...
...each [prior] case, the violation alleged by those attacking minimum wage regulation for women is deprivation of freedom of contract. What is this freedom? "The Constitution does not speak of freedom of contract. It speaks of liberty and prohibits the deprivation of liberty without due process...
...which requires the protection of law against the evils which menace the health, safety, morals, and welfare of the people. . . . The exploitation of a class of workers who are in an unequal position with respect to bargaining power and are thus relatively defenseless against the denial of a living wage is not only detrimental to their health and well-being but casts a direct burden for their support upon the community. What these workers lose in wages the taxpayers are called upon to pay. The bare cost of living must...
Easter night Mr. Lewis had to leave for Manhattan to negotiate with coal operators for his United Mine Workers, whose wage contract expires this week. Walter Chrysler continued in session with Mr. Lewis' aides, but sessions were abbreviated so that Governor Murphy could give his attention to other strikes...