HOURS OF WORK AND PLAY
COMPROMISE MEASURE IN UNITED STATES Minimum Wage and Shorter Week United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright (Received June 15, 9.30 p.m.) WASHINGTON, June 14. The House of Representatives and the Senate passed the compromise Wage Hour Bill. The measure achieves a 40 cent minimum hourly wage, and a 40-hour maximum work week, by easy stages in seven years, but quasi public industrial boards, dominated by the Federal Administrator, are empowered to fix the wages and hours scale in accordance with sectional economic conditions, and to exempt industries that the scale of work would cause economic hardships. Child labour under 14 .years, is exempted, except in seasonal or other specified industries.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIV, Issue 21064, 16 June 1938, Page 7
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114HOURS OF WORK AND PLAY Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIV, Issue 21064, 16 June 1938, Page 7
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