 | United States. Supreme Court - 1944 - 124 sider
...continue, to an alarming extent despite the degree of economic recovery which has been achieved. * * * The community is not bound to provide what is in effect a subsidy for unconscionable employers. " Mr. JUSTICE SUTHERLAND, however, remained unconvinced. To him, the majority opinion was a change... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor - 1949 - 1782 sider
...well-being, but casts a direct burden for their support upon the community. What these workers lost In wages the taxpayers are called upon to pay. The...In effect a subsidy for unconscionable employers. rolls in the communities because the wages which they were paid were inadequate to keep them alive.... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor - 1949 - 1954 sider
...upon the community. What these workers lost in wages the taxpayers are called upon to pay. The hare cost of living must be met. The community is not bound...in effect a subsidy for unconscionable employers. Let me interrupt to state that in early days of the Wages ami Hours Act there was evidence, fairly... | |
 | 1936 - 576 sider
...detrimental to their health but casts a direct burden for their support upon the community"; and that "the community is not bound to provide what is in effect a subsidy for unconscionable employers" and may direct its law-making power to correct the abuse which springs from a disregard of the public... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the District of Columbia - 1964 - 1384 sider
...less than 5 percent. Retail firms employing only 3 percent would feel a heavy impact of a 20 percent or more increase in the weekly wage bill. We consumers,...is in effect a subsidy for unconscionable employers * * *." we enjoy, are existing at substandard living levels. Few consumers want a bargain at the expense... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the District of Columbia - 1964 - 198 sider
...less than 5 percent. Retail firms employing only 3 percent would feel a heavy impact of a 20 percent or more increase in the weekly wage bill. We consumers,...is in effect a subsidy for unconscionable employers * * *." we enjoy, are existing at substandard living levels. Few consumers want a bargain at the expense... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor - 1964 - 554 sider
...Justice Hughes said in his decision upholding State minimum wage legislation in the thirties is that "What these workers lose in wages the taxpayers are...is in effect a subsidy for unconscionable employers * * *." The original purpose of the act was "to correct and as rapidly as possible to eliminate * *... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor - 1964 - 342 sider
...to their health and well-being but casts a direct burden for their support upon the community * * * The community is not bound to provide what is in effect a subsidy for unconscionable employers." We feel certain that, in his report on the 1961 coverage and minimum wage improvements, considerations... | |
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The community is not bound to provide what is in effect a subsidy for unconscionable employers. The community may direct its law-making power to correct the abuse which springs from their selfish disregard of the public interest. 
