Substandard Wages. Hearings Before a Subcommittee....on S. Con. Res. 48..Nov. 17, 1944.(78-2)

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Página 199 - Brotherhood Railway Carmen of America. International Brotherhood of Firemen and Oilers. Brotherhood of Railway and Steamship Clerks, Freight Handlers, Express and Station Employees. Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employees. Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen of America. National Organization Masters, Mates and Pilots of America. National Marine Engineers
Página 374 - Now, therefore, be it Resolved by the Senate (the House of Representatives concurring), That it is the sense of the Congress...
Página 198 - International Association of Machinists. International Brotherhood of Boilermakers, Iron Ship Builders and Helpers of America. International Brotherhood of Blacksmiths, Drop Forgers and Helpers. Sheet Metal Workers
Página 142 - ... 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 and perpetuate such labor conditions among the workers of the several States; (2) burdens commerce and the free How of goods in commerce...
Página 393 - Substandard Conditions of Living: A Study of the Cost of the Emergency Sustenance Budget in Five Textile Manufacturing Communities in January-February, 1944.
Página 142 - 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 necessary for health, efficiency, and general well-being of workers...
Página 142 - ... (1) causes commerce and the channels and instrumentalities of commerce to be used to spread and perpetuate such labor conditions among the workers of the several States ; (2) burdens commerce and the free flow of goods in commerce; (3) constitutes an unfair method of competition in commerce; (4) leads to labor disputes burdening and obstructing commerce and the free flow of goods in commerce; and (5) interferes with the orderly and fair marketing of goods in commerce.
Página 303 - The right of all workers, including common laborers, to a living wage is hereby declared. 2. In fixing wages, minimum rates of pay shall be established which will insure the subsistence of the worker and his family in health and reasonable comfort.
Página 13 - ... the National War Labor Board, and unless the National War Labor Board has approved such increases or decreases. 2. The National War Labor Board shall not approve any increase in the wage rates prevailing on September 15, 1942, unless such increase is necessary to correct maladjustments or inequalities, to eliminate substandards of living, to correct gross inequities, or to aid in the effective prosecution of the war.
Página 415 - It is our duty now to begin to lay the plans and determine the strategy for the winning of a lasting peace and the establishment of an American standard of living higher than ever before known. We cannot be content, no matter how high that general standard of living may be, if some fraction of our people— whether it be onethird or one-fifth or one-tenth — is ill-fed, ill-clothed, ill-housed, and insecure.

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