 | 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. Bureau of Labor Statistics - 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | United States. Department of Labor. Wage and Hour Division - 1938 - 20 pages
...production of goods for [interstate] commerce, of labor conditions detrimental to the maintenance of the minimum standard of living necessary for health, efficiency, and general well-being of workers "(1) Causes commerce and the channels and instrumentalities of commerce to be used to spread... | |
 | United States. Department of Labor. Wage and Hour Division - 1938 - 324 pages
...that it sought to remedy certain evils, namely, "labor conditions detrimental to the maintenance of the minimum standard of living necessary for health, efficiency, and general well-being of workers," which Congress found "(1) causes commerce and the channels and instrumentalities of commerce... | |
 | United States. Bureau of Labor Statistics - 1939 - 1542 pages
...commerce or in the production of goods for commerce, of labor conditions detrimental to the maintenance of the minimum standard of living necessary for health, efficiency and general well-being of workers" burdened commerce, and constituted an unfair method of competition, and that it led to... | |
 | United States. U.S. congress. House. Comm. on insular affairs - 1943 - 1414 pages
...curtailing employment or earning power" such labor conditions as are 'detrimental to the maintenance of the minimum standard of living necessary for health, efficiency, and general well-being of workers." Certain standards relating to minimum wages, overtime compensation and the use of child... | |
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FINDING AND DECLARATION OF POLICY SEC. 2. (a) The Congress hereby finds that the existence, in industries engaged in commerce or in the production of goods for commerce, of labor conditions detrimental to the maintenance of the minimum standard of living... 
