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Editorial
April 22, 1960
Summit County Labor News
Akron, Summit County, Ohio
What is this article about?
Editorial urges Congress to raise the minimum wage beyond $1/hour and extend protections to all workers to combat poverty, boost consumer power, and ensure economic justice, via the Kennedy-Morse-Roosevelt bill.
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The Unprotected
America has entered the Soaring Sixties and their promise of unlimited prosperity with millions of workers completely unprotected as to minimum wages or hours of work, eking out a second-class existence at the hands of low-wage chiseling employers.
There are millions more whose wages are pegged at $1 an hour under the Wage-hour Act, striving desperately to achieve the highly-touted American standard of living on $40 a week.
The persistence of poverty and near-poverty affects every American. It constitutes a direct threat to the nation's general progress toward ever-higher living standards and to the vitally necessary increase in consumer purchasing power that spells the difference between full employment and recession.
Four years ago Congress increased the minimum wage to $1 an hour. Wage levels and the increased cost of living have hopelessly outdated that figure. And there are still the millions working without wage-and-hour protection.
This Congress must wipe out poverty to bolster our economic strength and to control the low-wage employer whose profits are sweated from exploited workers. There must be economic justice for all workers, not union members alone. It can be accomplished by quick passage of the Kennedy-Morse-Roosevelt bill.
America has entered the Soaring Sixties and their promise of unlimited prosperity with millions of workers completely unprotected as to minimum wages or hours of work, eking out a second-class existence at the hands of low-wage chiseling employers.
There are millions more whose wages are pegged at $1 an hour under the Wage-hour Act, striving desperately to achieve the highly-touted American standard of living on $40 a week.
The persistence of poverty and near-poverty affects every American. It constitutes a direct threat to the nation's general progress toward ever-higher living standards and to the vitally necessary increase in consumer purchasing power that spells the difference between full employment and recession.
Four years ago Congress increased the minimum wage to $1 an hour. Wage levels and the increased cost of living have hopelessly outdated that figure. And there are still the millions working without wage-and-hour protection.
This Congress must wipe out poverty to bolster our economic strength and to control the low-wage employer whose profits are sweated from exploited workers. There must be economic justice for all workers, not union members alone. It can be accomplished by quick passage of the Kennedy-Morse-Roosevelt bill.
What sub-type of article is it?
Labor
Economic Policy
Social Reform
What keywords are associated?
Minimum Wage
Worker Protection
Poverty
Economic Justice
Kennedy Morse Roosevelt Bill
Soaring Sixties
What entities or persons were involved?
Congress
Kennedy
Morse
Roosevelt
Low Wage Employers
Editorial Details
Primary Topic
Increasing Minimum Wage And Worker Protections
Stance / Tone
Advocacy For Economic Justice And Bill Passage
Key Figures
Congress
Kennedy
Morse
Roosevelt
Low Wage Employers
Key Arguments
Millions Of Workers Unprotected From Minimum Wages Or Hours
Current $1/Hour Minimum Outdated By Rising Costs
Poverty Threatens National Progress And Full Employment
Need To Extend Protections To All Workers, Not Just Union Members
Passage Of Kennedy Morse Roosevelt Bill To Achieve Justice