The Woman Worker: The Women's Bureau News Letter ..., Volumes 20-22 |
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Página 5 - National Consumers' League National Council of Catholic Women National Council of Jewish Women National Council of...
Página 3 - Committee has led them strongly to hold that if the maximum output is to be secured and maintained for any length of time, a weekly period of rest must be allowed. Except for quite short periods, continuous work, in their view, is a profound mistake and does not pay — output is not increased.
Página 5 - All work carried on as part of the defense program should comply with Federal statutory provisions affecting labor wherever such provisions are applicable.
Página 5 - For there is nothing mysterious about the foundations of a healthy and strong democracy. The basic things expected by our people of their political and economic systems are simple. They are: Equality of opportunity for youth and for others.
Página 3 - Taking the country as a whole, the committee are bound to record their impression that the munition workers in general have been allowed to reach a state of reduced efficiency and lowered health which might have been avoided without reduction of output by attention to the details of daily and weekly rests.
Página 2 - Series, is published monthly, supplemented by semiannual cumulative indexes and digests, under authority of Public Resolution No. 57, approved May 11, 1922 (42 Stat, 541), as amended by section 307, Public Act 212, Seventy-second Congress, approved June 30, 1932.
Página 13 - In view of the urgent necessity for a prompt increase in the volume of production of practically every article required for the conduct of the war, vigilance is demanded of all those in any way associated with industry lest the safeguards with which the people of the country have sought to protect labor should be unwisely and unnecessarily broken down.
Página 12 - The per capita income decreases sharply as the family increases in size, dropping to an average of $221 for each person in families of seven or more persons, in contrast to $774 for each person in 2-person families. It is clear that the safety of our democratic institutions requires that as many families as possible be enabled to earn a decent income on a normal self-supporting basis. It is clear also that measures are required to supply substitute income where there is none or where income is insufficient...
Página 5 - The hopes of the Republic cannot forever tolerate either undeserved poverty or self-serving wealth. We know that we still have far to go; that we must more greatly build the security and the opportunity and the knowledge of every citizen, in the measure justified by the resources and the capacity of the land. But it is not enough to achieve these purposes alone. It is not enough to clothe and feed the body of this Nation, and instruct and inform its mind.
Página 5 - ... country have sought to protect labor should be unwisely and unnecessarily broken down. It is a fair assumption that for the most part these safeguards are the mechanisms of efficiency. Industrial history proves that reasonable hours, fair working conditions, and a proper wage scale are essential to high production.