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The Butler County Press
Hamilton, Butler County, Ohio
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The U.S. Senate passed legislation increasing the national minimum wage from 40 to 65 cents per hour under the Fair Labor Standards Act, but added a farm rider on parity prices that administration officials called inflationary and may lead to a veto by President Truman. The bill falls short of committee recommendations and affects over 20 million substandard wage workers.
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Washington, D. C.—The Senate adopted legislation increasing the national minimum wage from 40 to 65 cents an hour, but tacked on a farm rider which may cause President Truman to veto the bill if the House does not remove the offending section.
The rider would require that added farm labor costs be included in calculating parity prices. Since this would result in increased prices for food, it was denounced as inflationary by Administration spokesmen.
The Senate amendments to the Fair Labor Standards Act fell far short of the recommendations of its Education and Labor Committee. The committee bill set an immediate 65-cent minimum wage but also provided for automatic increases up to 75 cents an hour in the next few years. This provision was killed in the final voting.
Since the National Wage Stabilization Board already has announced advance approval of increases in substandard wage rates up to 65 cents an hour, the Senate bill scarcely does more than give official legislative sanction to the status quo.
More than 20,000,000 workers were reported to be still in the substandard wage bracket, however, and passage of the legislation would give them additional economic protection.
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senate adopted bill increasing minimum wage to 65 cents per hour with farm rider potentially leading to veto; provides economic protection to over 20,000,000 substandard wage workers.
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The Senate adopted amendments to the Fair Labor Standards Act raising the national minimum wage from 40 to 65 cents an hour, adding a rider requiring farm labor costs in parity price calculations, denounced as inflationary; fell short of committee's 75-cent plan with automatic increases.