...Act, June 25, 1938, 52 Stat. 1060, ... to correct and eliminate the labor conditions detrimental to the maintenance of the minimum standard of living necessary for health, efficiency and general well being of workers; (3) the national need during the war for the maximum of production as illustrated...

...endorsed objectives, but to be employed equally to sub-standard wages Is no social achievement at all. The "minimum standard of living necessary for health, efficiency, and general well-being of workers" must be attained. . . . Poverty Is not restricted to the unemployed alone. Many who are counted among...

...Labor Standards Act was enacted, although 40 cents then was recognized as inadequate to meet * * * the minimum standard of living necessary for health, efficiency, and general well-being of workers." It therefore urged a minimum wage of $1 an hour for all workers, whether in continental United States...

...Labor Standards Act was enacted, although 40 cents then was recognized as inadequate to meet * * * the minimum standard of living necessary for health, efficiency, and general well-being of workers." It therefore urged a minimum wage of $1 an hour for all workers, whether in continental United States...

...Congress intended to establish higher standards and to "eliminate" . . . "labor conditions detrimental to the maintenance of the minimum standard of living necessary for health, efficiency, and the general well-being of workers." Your petitioners submit that this Honorable Board is not concerned...

...in occupations in commerce, in the production of goods for commerce, or otherwise affecting commerce (1) causes commerce and the channels and instrumentalities of commerce to be used to spread and perpetuate among the workers of the several States conditions detrimental to the physical and economic health,...

...2, Congress recited that it sought to remedy certain evils, namely, "labor conditions detrimental to the maintenance of the minimum standard of living...health, efficiency, and general well-being of workers," which Congress found "(1) causes commerce and the channels and instrumentalities of commerce to be...

...engaged in commerce or in the production of goods for commerce, of labor conditions detrimental to the maintenance of the minimum standard of living...health, efficiency and general well-being of workers" burdened commerce, and constituted an unfair method of competition, and that it led to labor disputes...

...one of determining the number of hours of work which will not result in "conditions detrimental to the maintenance of the minimum standard of living...health, efficiency, and general well-being of workers." Sufficient research has not yet been done on this subject to warrant discussion here. 1. Conditions...

...substance, that it is the purpose of Congress to correct, I quote: "Labor conditions detrimental to the maintenance of the minimum standard of living...health, efficiency, and general well-being of workers." The ultimate minimum fixed by Congress was fixed at 40 cents an hour. Congress thus dealt with the...