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Washington Sweatshop
Allen, Robert S. | July 17, 1937 issue

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The Administration's wage-hour bill emerged from committee as emaciated as if it had spent the past month in a reducing cabinet. Once ample enough to cover some 12,000,000 workers, it now blankets a scant 3,000,000. Broad enough at one time to outlaw such practices as use of strike breakers and labor spies,: it is nothing now but a wage, hour, and child-labor bill, and an inadequate one at that. It permits a proposed Labor Standards Board to go as far down the scale as it likes in fixing minimum wages but forbids it to go above 40 cents an hour.

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HOURS of labor; WAGES; BILLS, Legislative; CHILD labor; LABOR laws & legislation; MINIMUM wage
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