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Page 85 - What is going to happen, if this legislation passes, as it is currently written, and we bring agricultural workers under ? These young people are going to be covered at 85 percent of the minimum wage, 85 percent of $1 an hour and then $1.15 and then $1.30, and so forth. I have talked to the officials of this seed company. Do you know what they are going to do? They are going to go to what they call sterile corn that does not have tassles and this sterile corn will not require the hiring of any young...
Page 79 - I think a great bit of that has been adequately covered in the testimony that we have had over the last few weeks. I would like to refer back to President Johnson's original labor message to the Congress in which he recommends legislation in this area, and I am only going to quote a brief part of it : I am, accordingly, urging early action to (1) amend the Fair Labor Standards Act to extend its protection to an additional 4Vi million workers and restrict excessive overtime work through the payment...
Page 79 - The present $1.25 hourly rate results in annual earnings, assuming full-time work throughout the year, of only $2,500. As average wages rise the minimum wage level should be increased periodically. The question is not whether the minimum wage should be increased but when and by how much. The Congress should consider...
Page 73 - HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, COMMITTEE ON RULES, Washington, DC The committee met, pursuant to call, at 2:50 pm in Room H313, The Capitol, Hon.
Page 91 - ... average of about $1.35 an hour during the 1964-65 season as compared to $1.27 an hour a year earlier. Semiskilled workers usually employed on an hourly basis were paid at wage rates ranging from $1.35 to $1.90 per hour during the 1964-65 season. Average wage rates and earnings of sugarcane fleldworkers in recent years has been in excess of the wage rate testified as wage determination. Mr. MARTIN. That is true, Claude, in our sugarbeet industry in Nebraska, hourly employees last year were paid...
Page 80 - It wejit from $1.15 to $1.25. This article is datelined Atlanta. I quote : The last section of the minimum wage law Congress passed in 1961 went into effect with little fanfare Friday, but its impact was quickly felt in the Southeast. The 18 packing plants that make up the fresh crabmeat industry in North Carolina closed rather than raise the pay of 1,800 pickers, nearly all women, to the $1.25 minimum. "It's been tough for a long time — this was the straw that broke our backs
Page 79 - The Congress should consider carefully the effects of higher minimum wage rates on the incomes of those employed and also on costs and prices, and on Job opportunities — particularly for the flood of teenagers now entering our labor force.
Page 77 - I have just concluded my testimony. I will be happy to try to answer any questions you might have. The CHAIRMAN.
Page 82 - ... as well as come under the provisions of the minimum wage law. Yet hotels, motels, and restaurants are exempt from the overtime provisions. I questioned both Mr. Dent and Mr. Bell in this regard when they testified. Let me quote from the testimony the other day when Mr. Bell was in here : Mr. MARTIN. Under this legislation, hotels, motels, and restaurants are exempt from overtime. But hospitals are not exempt from overtime. Can you give me the reason why you set it up in this manner? Mr. BELL....