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Miss Anna McCue is one of the organizers of the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage. She began work as a child in the hosiery mills in Kensington, Philadelphia and worked in the Kensington factories until 22 years old when she became an organizer for the Congressional Union. Since that time she has been one of the most powerful speakers in the work for the national suffrage amendment, making a very effective appeal because of her intimate acquaintance with the hardships involved in the life of the wage earning woman.

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New Public Contracts Board, Washington, D.C. Oct. 6. Members of the new public contracts board of the Department of Labor met today for the first time shortly after they were appointed by the Secretary Perkins. Hearings will be held immediately by the Board to make findings upon questions arrising under the Walsh-Healey law which went into effect last week and requires that manufacturers and dealers who make future contracts in excess of $10,000 with the Government shall comply with certain minimum wage, maximum hour and other labor conditions in the performance of the contract. In the photograph, left to right; Telfair Knight, Counsel for the Textile Labor Relations Division, Frank Healey of the office of the Solicitor of the Labor Department; and Hugh L.Kerwin, Director of Conciliation, Textile Labor Relations Division

New Public Contracts Board, Washington, D.C. Oct. 6. Members of the ne...

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President gets progress report on Wage-Hour law. Washington, D.C., Oct. 31. A thorough report on the progress of the new Wage- Hour Law was given President Roosevelt today by Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins, Wage-Hour Administrator Elmer Andrews, and their assistants today. Reading, left to right. Administrator Elmer Andrews; Secretary Perkins; Richardson Saunders, Assistant to the Secretary of Labor. Gerard D. Reilly, Labor Dept. Solicitor and CA-Vert Magruder,Chief Counsel for Wage-Hour Administration, 10/31/38

President gets progress report on Wage-Hour law. Washington, D.C., Oct...

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Wages [an] Hour Div. of Apparel Industry Committee met today at Raleigh Hotel to try to establish a minimum wage above the present 25 cents an hour. Lft. to rt. Joseph P. McCurdy, President of Maryland Fed. of Labor. Arthur J. Patton, retired employer. Charles Ray, retired manufacturer and former member of Conn. Minimum Wage Board. David Dubinsky, President of International Ladies Garment Workers Union. Sumner H. Slichter, Professor of Business Economics at Harvard. Louis B. Hopkins, Pres. of Wabash College. S.L. Hoffman, active employer. Seated: Burton E. Oppenheim, Chief of Industry Committee Division; Louis E. Kirstein, Chairman of Committee and Vice Pres. of William Filenes Sons Co. Inc. Delos Walker, Vice Chairman, and Vice Pres. of R.H. Macy and Co.

Wages [an] Hour Div. of Apparel Industry Committee met today at Raleig...

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As monopoly investigation opened. Washington, D.C., Dec. 1. First witness before the Joint Committee Investigating Monopolies today was Isador Lubin, left, Commissioner of Labor Statistics, U.S. Dept. of Labor, who is pictured with Senator Joseph C. O'Mahoney, Co-chairman of the Committee. Lubin told the Committee that American wage earners have lost $119,000,000,000 during nine years of unemployment

As monopoly investigation opened. Washington, D.C., Dec. 1. First witn...

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Present rail wage same as in 1920 when under government control, fact finding committee told. Washington, D.C., Oct. 8. Present railroad wages are on approximately the same level as in 1920 when the roads were controlled by the government, Bert M. Jewell, President of the A.F. of L.'s railway employees, told President Roosevelt's fact finding board today. He contended that because railroad workers have made "little or no progress" in improving their wages rates since then, they should now be called upon to accept the 15 percent reduction demanded by the carriers, 10/8/38

Present rail wage same as in 1920 when under government control, fact ...

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American Industry will be benefited if labor wage-and-hour bill is passed, says Mme. Perkins. Washington, D.C., June 4. American industry will be a principal beneficiary of federal legeslation to stabilize wages, hours and working conditions, Secretary of Labors Perkins told the Senate and House Labor Committees today before whom she appeared to endorse the Black-Connery Wage and Hour Bill. Removal of sweatshop conditions is the object of this pending bill, 6/4/37

American Industry will be benefited if labor wage-and-hour bill is pas...

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Left to right: W.K. Gunther of Gaffney, So. Car. Pres. & [...] Treas. of Dery Damask Mills Chairman of Wage & Hour Committee. Jim Daly of Columbus, Ohio. United Com'l Travelers, Chairman of Loans to Small Business. Small Business Mens Conference, 2/3/38

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Missouri Senator opposes rail wage cut. Washington, D.C., Oct. 14. Senator Harry Truman, of Missouri, today joined Senator Burton K. Wheeler in opposing the proposed rail wage cut as both appeared before the President's fact finding board at the Capitol. He contended the cut will not save the present financial situation of the railroads, 10/14/38

Missouri Senator opposes rail wage cut. Washington, D.C., Oct. 14. Sen...

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Improvements impossible unless rail wage cut - fact finding committee told. Washington, D.C., Oct. 7. Charles Donnelly, President of the Northern Pacific Railroad, today told the fact finding committee that it would be impossible for any railroad to spend money for improvements under present conditions. He urged approval of the wage cut, 10/7/38

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$119,000,000,000 lost to American wage earners during nine years of unemployment. Washington, D.C., Dec. 1. Questioned by Senator Joseph C. O'Mahoney, right, Co-chairman of the Joint Monopoly Committee, Isador Lubin, Commissioner of Labor Statistics, U.S. Depart. Of Labor, explains with a special chart how American wage and salary earners have lost $119,000,000,000 during nine years of unemployment. Lubin was the first witness before the Committee, Joint Legislative-Executive Body Created to Study Economic Ills and Recommend Remedial Legislation

$119,000,000,000 lost to American wage earners during nine years of un...

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103 union presidents meet with Green to urge Congress to change WPA wage-hour rates. Washington, D.C., July 12. Leaders of the American Federation of Labor's national and international unions met today to plan methods of persuading Congress to restore old wage and hour rates of pay for WPA workers who now work 130 hours for the same pay they once received for as little as 55 hours a month. Here are Frank Morrison, Secretary-Treasurer of the AF of L, Herbert Rivers, Secretary and Treasurer of the Building and Construction Trades Department, and William Green, President of the AF of L photographed at the meeting this morning

103 union presidents meet with Green to urge Congress to change WPA wa...

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Exhausted after wage-hour fight in senate. Washington, D.C., June 13. Senator Allen Ellender Democrat of Louisana and onetime Lieutenant of the late Huey Long, is snapped by news cameramen as he rests in his office after leading the victorious fight for the compromise in the wage-hour bill. The compromise is expected to make wage differentials possible for many southern industries. He has threatened a filibuster unless the south got what it wanted in the measure, 6/13/38

Exhausted after wage-hour fight in senate. Washington, D.C., June 13. ...

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Missouri Senator opposes rail wage cut. Washington, D.C., Oct. 14. Senator Harry Truman, of Missouri, today joined Senator Burton K. Wheeler in opposing the proposed rail wage cut as both appeared before the President's fact finding board at the Capitol. He contended the cut will not save the present financial situation of the railroads, 10/14/38

Missouri Senator opposes rail wage cut. Washington, D.C., Oct. 14. Sen...

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Old-age and Survivors Insurance Under the Social Security Act. Every man wants security and happiness for his family. Wage earners covered by the Federal Old-age and Survivors Insurance System can look forward []

Old-age and Survivors Insurance Under the Social Security Act. Every m...

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Santurce, Puerto Rico. Women working in the Rodriguez needlework factory where the minimum wage is six dollars a week

Santurce, Puerto Rico. Women working in the Rodriguez needlework facto...

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[Three National Woman's Party members with "Wage Earners" banner during the dedication ceremonies for the Alva E. Belmont House, 1922.]

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Collard Magnate questioned on profit sharing systems. Washington, D.C., Nov. 30. Testifying before the Senate Finance Subcommittee today, R.O. Kennedy, Vice President of Cluett, Peabody, and Co. of Troy, N.Y., said that if incentive taxation is used a method would have to be developed according to the ratio of wage distribution to profits in the various industries. He added it would be impossible to set up an arbitrary ratio

Collard Magnate questioned on profit sharing systems. Washington, D.C....

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Sears Roebuck before Joint Committee on wages and hours. Washington, D.C. June 10. R.E. Wood, President of Sears, Roebuck & CO, told the Join Senate House Committee that a general decentralization of industry was the best thing that could happen to this country today. Wood also urged that the board be directed mandatorily to appoint Advisory Wage Committees. 6/10/37

Sears Roebuck before Joint Committee on wages and hours. Washington, D...

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Whispered advice. Washington, D.C., Oct. 14. Senator Harry Truman (right) of Missouri, who today opposed the proposed rail wage cut before the President's fact finding board, gets a bit of last minute information from Max Lowenthal, counsel for the Senate Interstate Commerce Committee. In contending the cut will not save the situation, Truman told the board that railroad labor is the most efficient in the country and expressed the belief that the men are not overpaid, 10/14/38

Whispered advice. Washington, D.C., Oct. 14. Senator Harry Truman (rig...

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Mr. Taylor and wage laborer slide tobacco to the barn from the field, about a quarter of a mile. Granville County, North Carolina

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War Labor Board: "Little Steel" hearing. Philip Murray, Congress of Industrial Organization (CIO) leader, left, and Harold Ruttenberg, research director for United Steel Workers (USW), at the "Little Steel" hearing held by the War Labor Board, at the Hotel Washington in Washington, D.C., July 1. The hearing arose from a wage dispute between union demands and four "Little Steel" companies: Bethlehem Steel, Republic Steel, Youngstown Sheet and Tube, and Inland Steel. The hearing resulted in a fifteen per cent wage increase formula, and set a precedent for future wage adjustments to meet recent increases in the cost of living

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General Electric head 'hopes' profit sharing with employees is 'good business.' Washington, D.C., Nov. 28. Gerard Swope, President of General Electric Co., appearing before a Senate Subcommittee studying profit sharing plans today said he believed the government must adopt some form of incentive taxation it if hoped to induce industry to stabilize employment thought an annual wage. Declaring he 'hoped' profit sharing with employees was 'good business,' he added, ' but I don't know'

General Electric head 'hopes' profit sharing with employees is 'good b...

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Holds hours and wage hearings in NRA. Walton H. Hamilton, left, of the NRA board, and S. Clay Williams, Chairman of the Board, preside at the open hearing by which the NRA expects to receive guidance on labor provisions of codes in the event the recovery organization is continued by Congress. 1/30/35

Holds hours and wage hearings in NRA. Walton H. Hamilton, left, of the...

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Boris Drasin, president of the workers' Aim Association Inc., works as an operator in the garment factory at a the same wage as the other operators. Hightstown, New Jersey

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Employer and employee well represented as committee meets to consider minimum wage for textile workers. Washington, D.C., Oct. 11. Employer and employee members of the First Industry Committee under the new Wage-Hour Law met with Chairman Donald Nelson and Wage-hour Administrator Elmer Andrews today to consider a minimum wage for more than 1,300,000 workers in the textile industry. Pictured, left to right, are: Donald Nelson, Administrator Andrews, and Sidney Hillman, President of the Amalgamated Clothing workers, standing are R.R. West, (left) Danville, Virginia, and John R. Cheatham, Griffin, GA., both employers, 101138

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Former Cleveland Mayor argues against proposed rail wage cut. Washington, D.C., Oct. 17. Roy T. Miller, former Mayor of Cleveland, today argues against the proposed rail wage cut for the brotherhood of locomotive engineers before the President's fact finding board. He declared that the only argument offered by the railroad Presidents in support of their demand for the cut was "it's the wise thing to do" and "at no time did any of them say it was the just thing to do". He criticized sharply the dividends the Railroads declared in 1931, 1932, and 1933, 10/17/38

Former Cleveland Mayor argues against proposed rail wage cut. Washingt...

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Santurce, Puerto Rico. Women working at the Rodriguez needlework factory. Minimum wage is six dollars a week

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RAILWAY WAGE COMMISSION. CREATED JANUARY 18, 1918 BY DIRECTOR GENERAL OF RAILROADS. SEATED: J.H. COVINGTON; FRANKLIN K. LANE; CHARLES C. McCHORD; WILLIAM R. WILCOX. STANDING: W.A. RYAN; F.W. LEHMAN

RAILWAY WAGE COMMISSION. CREATED JANUARY 18, 1918 BY DIRECTOR GENERAL ...

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[...] wage fight - Public domain photograph

[...] wage fight - Public domain photograph

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Fact finding board Chairman intent as he hears final argument on wage cut. Washington, D.C., Oct. 17. Chief Justice Walter P. Stacy; chairman of the president's fact finding board, ponders as he listens to final argument by Charles MacKay, counsel for 18 railroad labor organizations, non labor's opposition to the railroads demand for a 15 percent cut in wages. The boards findings will go to President Roosevelt with recommendations by Oct. 27, 101738

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A black and white photo of a group of children, Louisiana. Farmers during Great Depression

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Mr. Taylor and wage laborer slide the tobacco to barn from the field, about quarter of a mile. Granville County, North Carolina

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Nyssa, Oregon. FSA (Farm Security Administration) mobile camp. Japanese-Americans who do volunteer farm work and live at the camp signing the payroll. Volunteer work in connection with these people means paid work; they are guaranteed the standard local wage. They volunteered to leave the WCCA reception centers and WRA (War Relocation Authority) projects and come to the farming areas to work

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AF of L meets to try to solve WPA strikes. Washington, D.C., July 12. William Green, President of the American Federation of Labor, today pledged to presidents of 103 unions to do everything in the federation's power to persuade Congress to rescind the new wage provisions that reduced hourly rates. He disclaimed AF of L responsibility for the strikes of 77,000 WPA employees and the sympathy strike of some member unions

AF of L meets to try to solve WPA strikes. Washington, D.C., July 12. ...

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Panama Wage Scale Committee, 10/21/21

Panama Wage Scale Committee, 10/21/21

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Home of turpentine worker near Cordele, Alabama. Father's wage is one dollar a day. This is the standard of living the turpentine trees support

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Baltimore, Md. A coding system, which eliminates all vowels and some consonants and reduces the remaining letters of the alphabet to groups designated by six master, or key, letters is employed in the Social Security Board Records Office. The [...]ing system was adopted as a "foolproof" methods of keeping track of names, whether or not misspelled by their owners in subsequent correspondence. The system also is of great value in simplifying many of the mechanical operations necessary to set up and maintain individual wage record accounts for the millions or workers covered by the Social Security Act. the photograph [above shows](?) workers in the Records Office coding names of [applicants]

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Baby Senator quizzes labor leader. Washington, D.C., June 7. Senator Rush D. Holt, West Virginia, frequently interrupted the testimony of John L. Lewis today to ask questions of the C.I.O Chief as he appeared before the Senate and House labor Committees. Lewis gave his flat endorsement of the Black-Connery bill which is aimed to curtail sweatshop conditions and setting of a wage and hour law for American industry, 6/7/37

Baby Senator quizzes labor leader. Washington, D.C., June 7. Senator R...

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Baltimore, MD. Every individual Social Security Account is listed in several ways in the Social Security Board Records Office. The photograph above shows a Records Office worker at a machine which is listing in numerical sequence on a loose leaf ledger page a record of account numbers issued, to whom they were issued and other identifying data for future reference as one of the several means employed to make certain individual wage record accounts are correctly set up to be maintained

Baltimore, MD. Every individual Social Security Account is listed in s...

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WPA workers protest relief cuts. Washington, D.C., Dec. 15. WPA workers from 26 states, head by David Lasser, President of the Workers Alliance, today protested to Assistant Administrator Aubrey Williams the recent cuts in relief. Their kicks were against the current wage scales, geographical wage differentials, inadequate number of WPA enrollees and the 'unjust and unfair' labor relations setup. Lasser is on the right and Aubrey Williams in center seated, 12/15/38

WPA workers protest relief cuts. Washington, D.C., Dec. 15. WPA worker...

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Wage laborer topping tobacco. Shoofly, North Carolina

Wage laborer topping tobacco. Shoofly, North Carolina

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Nyssa, Oregon. (vicinity). Japanese-American family was evacuated from a coastal area to a reception center. Subsequently they volunteered for farm work and moved to the FSA (Farm Security Administration) mobile camp. From there they were hired as a group by a local white farmer. They will be allowed to remain on this farm for the duration of the war. When such an arrangement is made the U.S. Employment Service must inspect and approve housing facilities and wage standards

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Plays part in AF of L meet on WPA situation. Washington, D.C., July 12. George Meany, President of the New York State Federation of Labor photographed this morning at the AF of L meeting which was called to urge Congress to rescind the new wage provisions that reduced hourly pay rates for WPA workers and which now has 77-627[?] workers on strike

Plays part in AF of L meet on WPA situation. Washington, D.C., July 12...

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Boris Drasin, president of the workers' Aim Association Inc., works as an operator in the garment factory at a wage no greater than is paid to other operators. Hightstown, New Jersey

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Denounces Black-Connery bill. Washington, D.C. June 9. The pending Black-Connery Wage and Hour Bill was bitterly denounced today by Harvey Willson, Manager of the National Upholstery and Drapery Textile Association, when he appeared before the House and Senate Labor Committee. Pictureing the bill as a long step towrd complete governemtn control of industry and labor such as exists in European countries, Willson expressed the opinion that it would wholly unworkable as a law and would only result in confusions in industry far exceeding that connected with the attempt to administer the late NRA. 6/9/37

Denounces Black-Connery bill. Washington, D.C. June 9. The pending Bla...

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Note on campaign "Olson for Governor, 1938." Car of migrant agricultural worker on strike for wage increase in cotton. Bakersfield, California

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War Labor Board: "Little Steel" hearing. Philip Murray, Congress of Industrial Organization leader, speaking at the "Little Steel" hearing held by the War Labor Board, at the Hotel Washington in Washington, D.C., July 1. The hearing arose from a wage in Washington, D.C., July 1. The hearing arose from a wage dispute between union demands and four "Little Steel" companies: Bethlehem Steel, Republic Steel, Youngstown Sheet and Tube, and Inland Steel. The hearing resulted in a fifteen per cent wage increase formula, and set a precedent for future wage adjustments to meet recent increases in the cost of living

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A.F. of L. head sees President Roosevelt. Washington D.C., July 23. A.F. of L. President William Green arriving at the White House today to keep an appointment with President Roosevelt. Questioned by Newsmen later, Green said he told the President the Federation was "very much dissapointed" over Senate action on the Judiciary Reorganization Bill. Green said he also expressed to the President the hope that Congress would pass a minimum wage and maximum hour bill and a housing measure at this session, 7/23/37

A.F. of L. head sees President Roosevelt. Washington D.C., July 23. A....

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Rail wage cut would be blow to our present recovery. Washington, D.C., Oct. 14. Senator Burton K. Wheeler, Democrat of Montana and Chairman of the Senate Interstate Committee, today told the President's fact finding board that a wage reduction in the railroad industry "would be a blow to our present recovery." He expressed the opinion that the country as a whole would benefit if there were no cut, 10/14/38

Rail wage cut would be blow to our present recovery. Washington, D.C.,...

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Appears before Roosevelt fact finding committee. Washington, D.C., Oct. 7. H.A. Enoch's, Chairman of the Carrier's Joint Conference Committee, today traced the history of collective bargaining of rail unions with the carriers. He asserted that since the 15 percent wage reduction notice was served on the unions, "our employees have refused to face the facts". "We have offered to submit the dispute to an arbitration board, whose decision, by law, is binding," Enoch's said. "The employees refused arbitration. Instead, they took a strike vote." that is why we are here today, 10/7/38

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Wage-Hour Administrator reports to President. Washington, D.C., Oct. 25. Wage-Hour Administrator Elmer F. Andrews leaving the White House today after making a report to President Roosevelt. At a press conference today, Andrews expressed belief that employees thrown out of work by closing of low wage industries would be re-employed by 'decent' employers when the chiselling minority quits the business, 10/25/38

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Loading truck in sugar beet field. Average wage of field worker: two dollars and fifty cents per day and dinner and supper during topping. Near Ontario, Malheur County, Oregon

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Loading truck in sugar beet field. Average wage of field worker: two dollars and fifty cents per day and dinner and supper during topping. Near Ontario, Malheur County, Oregon

Loading truck in sugar beet field. Average wage of field worker: two d...

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Wage laborer topping tobacco. Granville County, North Carolina

Wage laborer topping tobacco. Granville County, North Carolina

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White sharecropper and wage laborer priming tobacco early in the morning. Granville County, North Carolina

White sharecropper and wage laborer priming tobacco early in the morni...

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Wage and Hour Administrator takes oath. Washington, D.C., March 4. Col. Philip Flemming, here-to-fore loaned out by the army by executive order to administer the Wage & Hour law, today was sworn in as administrator. The ceremony took place in the presence of the Secretary of Labor, Frances Perkins, while Chief Clerk Samuel Gompers administered the oath. Left to right: Col. Flemming, Miss Perkins, Mr. Gompers, 3-4-40

Wage and Hour Administrator takes oath. Washington, D.C., March 4. Col...

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Government regulation needed to insure Detroit steady supply of milk, Monopoly Committee told. Washington, D.C., May 2. Kenneth L. Vardon, President of the United Dairy Workers Union of Detroit, today told the Temporary National Economic Committee that some form of government regulation must be imposed to insure Detroit a steady supply of milk at a just price to the consumer, the distributor, and the farmer. He charged that the practices of George A. Johnson, independent dealer, serving six per cent of the city, were such that they 'are seriously endangering the supply of fluid milk for Detroit.' Vardon said that Johnson shops with various farmers to get the lowest possible prices but refuses to pay prevailing wage standards

Government regulation needed to insure Detroit steady supply of milk, ...

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Negro wage laborer and part of his family. He is coming home from the commissary with a week's rations. Macon County, Georgia

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Tractor operator in western cotton fields. Works as wage laborer, earns one dollar per day. Childress County, Texas

Tractor operator in western cotton fields. Works as wage laborer, earn...

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CIO head denounces wage and price reductions. Washington, D.C., Jane. 25. Opening the 35th Biennial Convention of the United States Mine Workers here today, John L. Lewis, head of the UMW and Chairman of the CIO, declared that labor in America will fight with all its power against wage and price reductions in the face of the current business decline. Two thousand mine workers, delegates to the convention, indorsed their leaders pledge, 1/25/38

CIO head denounces wage and price reductions. Washington, D.C., Jane. ...

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Mrs. Elmer Andrews, wife of the Wage Hour Administrator with hundreds of letters asking for jobs

Mrs. Elmer Andrews, wife of the Wage Hour Administrator with hundreds ...

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Wife of CIO Head attends Mine Workers Convention. Washington, D.C., Jan. 25. Mrs. John L. Lewis, wife of the CIO Head and President of the United Mine Workers, listens attentively as her husband delivers the opening speech at the 35th annual convention of the UMWA today. Lewis declared that labor will fight wage and price reductions during the current business decline. Philip Murray (left), Chairman of the organizing committee of the CIO, and John T. Jones, President of the Maryland-District of Columbia Industrial Council are shown in photograph with Mrs. Lewis, 1/25/38

Wife of CIO Head attends Mine Workers Convention. Washington, D.C., Ja...

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Rail Labor Head discusses wage controversy with president. Washington, D.C., Oct. 31. George M. Harrison, President of the Brotherhood of Railroad and Steamship clerks, leaving the White House today after discussing with President Roosevelt the carriers wage controversy. Harrison told newsmen "the president wants railroad labor and management to take up the problem of developing a program of legislation for general rehabilitation of the railroad industry," 10-31-38

Rail Labor Head discusses wage controversy with president. Washington,...

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Rail wage cut would be blow to our present recovery. Washington, D.C., Oct. 14. Senator Burton K. Wheeler, Democrat of Montana and Chairman of the Senate Interstate Committee, today told the President's fact finding board that a wage reduction in the railroad industry "would be a blow to our present recovery". He expressed the opinion that the country as a whole would benefit if there were no cut, 10/14/38

Rail wage cut would be blow to our present recovery. Washington, D.C.,...

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Negro wage hands filling bag with corn they have just shucked for landlord who is a white woman. On road to Cedar Grove, west of highway No. 14, Orange County, North Carolina

Negro wage hands filling bag with corn they have just shucked for land...

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Family of roofer from Oklahoma in their tent home at Corpus Christi, Texas. He is working at the naval air training base. He draws one dollar an hour pay but frequent layoffs because of bad weather makes his average weekly wage small

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Rents for wage earners in thirty-four large cities

Rents for wage earners in thirty-four large cities

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Nyssa, Oregon (vicinity). This family was evacuated from a coastal area to a reception center. Subsequently they volunteered for farm work and moved to the camp. From there they were hired as a group by a local white farmer. They will be allowed to remain on this farm for the duration of the war. When such an arrangement is made the U.S. Employment Service must inspect and approve housing facilities and wage standards

Nyssa, Oregon (vicinity). This family was evacuated from a coastal are...

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War Labor Board: "Little Steel" hearing. Lee Pressman, Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) counselor; Philip Murray, CIO president; and Harold Ruttenberg (speaking), research director, United Steel Workers (USW), at the "Little Steel" hearing held by the War Labor Board at the Hotel Washington in Washington, D.C., July 1. The hearing arose from a wage dispute between union demands and four "Little Steel" companies: Bethlehem Steel, Republic Steel, Youngstown Sheet and Tube, and Inland Steel. The hearing resulted in a fifteen per cent wage increase formula, setting a precedent for future wage adjustments to meet recent increases in the cost of living

War Labor Board: "Little Steel" hearing. Lee Pressman, Congress of Ind...

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Catania, Sicily. Rebuilding the city. The Allied government is paying a wage comparable with peacetime for the labor. This money is charged to the Italian government, which will return it later

Catania, Sicily. Rebuilding the city. The Allied government is paying ...

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C.I.O. Chief endorses wage-hour bill. Washington, D.C. June 7. The Black-Connery Wage-and-Hour bill received the endorsement of John L. Lewis Chairman of the Committee for Industrial Organization, as he appeared before the Senate and House Labor Committees. He recommended the setting of a 40-cents-per-hour wage and a five-day, 35-hour week. At the same time he opposed what he called "wage fixin" contrary to " American precedents and practices". 6/7/37

C.I.O. Chief endorses wage-hour bill. Washington, D.C. June 7. The Bla...

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Authors of Administration Minimum Wage and Maximum Hours of Work Bill. Washington, D.C. May 24. Senator Hugo L. Black, (left) democratic senator from Alabama and Chairman of the Senate Committee on Education and Labor, and Rep. William P. Connery Jr, of Massachusetts Chairman of the House Labor Committee, study the bills they introduce today in the Senate and [...] for enactment of a standard wage scale and [minim]um hours of work law. The bills were introduced [...] after President Roosevelt's address demanding [...w] was read to both Houses of Congress. [...] call for a minimum of 40 cents an hour [mini]mum hours comprimise a 35 to 40 hour work [week], 5/24/37

Authors of Administration Minimum Wage and Maximum Hours of Work Bill....

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Quotes history in voicing objections to wage and hour bill. Washington, D.C. June 11. Appearing before the Senate and House and Labor Committee today, Guy L. Harrington, Chairman of the Labor Committee of the National Publishing Association, charged that the Black-Connery Wage-and-Hour Bill was an attempt to impose conditions of wage and price fixing wich led to the fall of French and Roman empires. If desired, he promised the Committee he would supply necessary historical references to prove his contention Harrington is also Assistant to Bernard MacFadded, head of MacFadden Publications. 6/11/37

Quotes history in voicing objections to wage and hour bill. Washington...

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House in the town of Fowler, Indiana, where Tip Estes' employer lives. He rents this house and hires Estes to work one of his farms on a monthly wage basis

House in the town of Fowler, Indiana, where Tip Estes' employer lives....

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Louise Stitt, Director of Minimum Wage, Women's' Bureau, Department of Labor, in discussion with Clay A. Copeland, Supervisor, minimum wage law for women and minors, Department of Industrial Relations, Frankfort, Ky.

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Charges railroads with gambling on stock market. Washington, D.C., July 6. Alexander F. Whitney, president of the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen, leaving the White House today after a conference with the President. Whitney said that railroads could save 700,000,000 to 8,000,000,000 annually if they would do nothing but sell transportation. He charged the railroads had been "gambling on the stock market" and attempting to give rebates to shippers and added "we expect to make a very strong case against the proposed 15 percent wage cut," 7/6/38

Charges railroads with gambling on stock market. Washington, D.C., Jul...

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15 percent wage cut for rail employees necessary, Counsel tells fact finding board. Washington, D.C., Sept. 30. Testifying at the initial hearing of President Roosevelt's fact finding committee today J. Carter Fort, Chief Counsel for the Carriers Joint Conference Committee declared that a 15 percent wage cut for 900,000 railroad employees is necessary to save railroads from disaster. Rail employees have threatened a general walkout if the cut if put into effect. Seated are members of the fact-finding committee pictured left to right: Harry A. Millis, Walter P. Stacy, Chairman and James M. Landis, 9/30/38

15 percent wage cut for rail employees necessary, Counsel tells fact f...

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PRESIDENT ENROLLED AS 'FOUNDER' IN FOUNDATION FOR INFANTILE PARALYSIS. WASHINGTON, D.C. JANUARY 17. PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT TODAY PURCHASING FROM U.S. SURGEON GENERAL THOMAS PARRAN A CERTIFICATE ENROLLING HIM AS A 'FOUNDER' OF THE NATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR INFANTILE PARALYSIS. THE NEW FOUNDATION, A PERMANENT ORGANIZATION, WILL THROUGH THE SUPPORT OF CITIZENS IN EVERY TOWN AND CITY WAGE THE FIGHT AGAINST THE DISEASE ON A NATIONWIDE SCALE. IN THE PHOTOGRAPH, L TO R: DR. THOMAS PARRAN; KIETH MO[...], NATIONAL CHAIRMAN OF THE COMMITTEE FOR THE CELEBRATION OF THE PRESIDENT'S BIRTHDAY; DR. THOMAS W. GOSLING, NATIONAL DIRECTOR, AMERICAN JUNIOR RED CROSS; MISS KATHERINE [i.e. Katharine] LENROOT, CHIEF OF THE CHILDREN'S BUREAU, U.S. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR; AND D.C. COMMISSIONER GEORGE ALLEN, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE CAMPAIGN

PRESIDENT ENROLLED AS 'FOUNDER' IN FOUNDATION FOR INFANTILE PARALYSIS....

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Tobacco field in early morning where white sharecropper and wage laborer are priming tobacco. Shoofly, North Carolina

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President and A.F. of L. leaders discuss wage-hour legislation. Washington, D.C., March 16. Following a conference between President Roosevelt and leaders of the American Federation of Labor on wage-hour legislation today, AF of L President William Green announced that there was not a great deal of difference between the chief executive and the federation over details of the proposed legislation. He said the federation was not rigidly committed [...] an absolute 40 cents an hour minimum wage. In the picture, left to right: B.M. Jewell, president, Railroad Employees Dept., John Frey, president, Metal Trades Dept., President William Green, and Joseph McInerny, president, Building Trades Dept.

President and A.F. of L. leaders discuss wage-hour legislation. Washin...

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Butte, Montana. Anaconda Copper Mining Company. Working on contracts to determine pay for miners. The contract system is used in the Butte mines, where the minimum basic wage is six dollars and seventy-five cents daily

Butte, Montana. Anaconda Copper Mining Company. Working on contracts t...

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War Labor Board: "Little Steel" hearing. Philip Murray, Congress of Industrial Organization (CIO) leader, left, and Harold Ruttenberg, research director for United Steel Workers (USW), at the "Little Steel" hearing held by the War Labor Board, at the in Washington, D.C., July 1. The hearing arose from a wage dispute between union demands and four "Little Steel" companies: Bethlehem Steel, Republic Steel, Youngstown Sheet and Tube, and Inland Steel. The hearing resulted in a fifteen per cent wage increase formula, and set a precedent for future wage adjustments to meet recent increases in the cost of living

War Labor Board: "Little Steel" hearing. Philip Murray, Congress of In...

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Wage - [...] Textile Board - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Wage - [...] Textile Board - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

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RAILWAY WAGE COMMISSION. CREATED JANUARY 18, 1918 BY DIRECTOR GENERAL OF RAILROADS. SEATED: J.H. COVINGTON; FRANKLIN K. LANE; CHARLES C. McCHORD; WILLIAM R. WILCOX. STANDING: W.A. RYAN; F.W. LEHMAN

RAILWAY WAGE COMMISSION. CREATED JANUARY 18, 1918 BY DIRECTOR GENERAL ...

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Standing room only at Capitol labor hearing. Washington, D.C. June 4. The S.R.O sign was hung out today as Secretary of Labor Perkins appeared before the House and Senate Labor Committee Hearing. Mme. Secretary gave her flat endorsement of the Black-Connery Wage. and - Hour Bill which was introduced in congress in efforts to curtail sweatshop conditions and abolition of child labor in American industry. 6/4/37

Standing room only at Capitol labor hearing. Washington, D.C. June 4. ...

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Daughters of wage laborer working in the sugarcane fields near New Iberia, Louisiana

Daughters of wage laborer working in the sugarcane fields near New Ibe...

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Both sides. Washington, D.C., Oct. 11. Sidney Hillman, President of the Amalgamated Clothing workers, and Donald Nelson, (right) Chairman of the First Industry Committee under the new Wage-Hour Law, chat informally as the waited for the committee to meet today. The committee was meeting to consider a minimum wage for more than 1,3000,000 workers in the textile industry, 10/11/38

Both sides. Washington, D.C., Oct. 11. Sidney Hillman, President of th...

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Santurce, Puerto Rico. Women working at the Rodriguez needlework factory. Minimum wage is six dollars a week

Santurce, Puerto Rico. Women working at the Rodriguez needlework facto...

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"Big Train" to roll again. Germantown, MD, Sept. 13. Walter Johnson; Washington Senators' pitching star for two decades, scored another shutout yesterday when he defeated his opponent, James M. Mount, for the Republican nomination as County Commissioner for Montgomery County. The score was; Johnson 1,025 votes, Mount 40, Johnson is pictured as he warmed up that powerful right arm in preparation for the campaign he will wage for election. The former pitcher now runs a dairy farm here, 9/13/38

"Big Train" to roll again. Germantown, MD, Sept. 13. Walter Johnson; W...

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CIO head denounces wage and price reductions. Washington, D.C., Jane. 25. Opening the 35th Biennial Convention of the United States Mine Workers here today, John L. Lewis, head of the UMW and Chairman of the CIO, declared that labor in America will fight with all its power against wage and price reductions in the face of the current business decline. Two thousand mine workers, delegates to the convention, indorsed their leaders pledge, 12538

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Tobacco field, early morning, where white sharecropper and wage laborer are priming tobacco. Shoofly, North Carolina

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Mitchel Field, New York. Air Corps technicians must be expert in the handling of infantry weapons. Members of an airbase squadron learning to wage hand-to-hand combat with bayonets under the tutelage of Captain Clifford W. Vedder, squadron commander

Mitchel Field, New York. Air Corps technicians must be expert in the h...

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Rail executive confers with president. Washington, D.C., Oct. 31. Following a conference with President Roosevelt today on the carriers wage controversy, J.J. Pelley, President of the Association of American Railroads, announced that the President seeks settlement of the dispute without trouble on a peaceful basis. Pelley said the president assured him the Administration would support a constructive rail rehabilitation program in the next Congress, 10/31/38

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Urges age minimum age limit provisions in Connery-Black Bill. Washington, D.C. June 14. Testifying on the Black-Connery Wage and [Hours] Bill today, Rep. Robert Luce, of Massachusetts, urged the Seante and House Labor Committees to exempt from the wage provisions of the bill all persons under 21 years of age. Luce, who employs almost a hundred women in a clipping bureau he conducts, declared the measure overlooks all the little fellows like himself. He explains this statement by saying that most women employed today do not intend to make a life work out of industry and therefore should be excluded from a minimum wage. He added that because of the money and times used in training women, he loses $3250 everytime one resigns. 6/14/37

Urges age minimum age limit provisions in Connery-Black Bill. Washingt...

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Fact finding board Chairman intent as he hears final argument on wage cut. Washington, D.C., Oct. 17. Chief Justice Walter P. Stacy; chairman of the president's fact finding board, ponders as he listens to final argument by Charles MacKay, counsel for 18 railroad labor organizations, non labor's opposition to the railroads demand for a 15 percent cut in wages. The boards findings will go to President Roosevelt with recommendations by Oct. 27, 10/17/38

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UAWU leaders urge President to appropriate $130,000,000 for Michigan relief. Washington, D.C., Feb. 1. Led by Homer Martin, President, representatives of the United Automobile Workers Union called at the White House today and urged President Roosevelt to appropriate $130,000,000 for Michigan relief to avoid "mass starvation and mass misery". They also left with the President their recommendations and a statement on employment, unemployment and average wage of workers in the auto industry. Left to right: Richard T. Frankensteen, Vice President; Homer Martin, President; William Munger, Research Director; and W. Jed Louck, Economist

UAWU leaders urge President to appropriate $130,000,000 for Michigan r...

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[Four adults and six children, from Passaic, N.J., picket the White House following President Coolidge's refusal to listen to their complaints about wage cuts in the textile industry]

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