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Congress Looks Toward 1938
Horton, Robert W. | June 5, 1937 issue

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This article focuses on the implications of the wage-and-hour bill proposed by the U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt while presidential elections are due in next year. The Administration has insisted in conferences on the bill that the hours be thirty-five and the hourly wage forty cents. But there is a fairly strong sentiment for thirty hours. Even that fundamental dispute will not unduly delay passage of the bill. There is an election next year and of course all the House and one-third of the Senate have eyes for that alone. Thus, this new Administration reform comes exactly at the right time for the campaigners, particularly against the Supreme Court plan.

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WAGES; HOURS of labor -- Law & legislation; PRESIDENTS -- Election; BILLS, Legislative; ROOSEVELT, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945; UNITED States. Congress; UNITED States
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