U.S. LABOUR LAWS
PRESIDENT’S IMMEDIATE AIMS
(United Press Association —By Electin' Telegraph—Copyright).
WASHINGTON, November 9.
Mr. Roosevelt, in a message to delegates from 39 states assembled-for the third national conference on labour legislation, said he-believed-., the country had given 1 an unmistakable, mandate to legislators and executives / to seek a “levelling upward of labour standards.”
Mr. Roosevelt proclaimed his immediate , aims—safe and healthful places of work; adequate care and support of those incapacitated because of accidents, industrial disease, old age and unemployment; 'reasonably short hours, adequate annual income; proper housing, and the elimination of child labour:
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Hokitika Guardian, 11 November 1936, Page 5
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