...bargaining; (2) the Fair Labor Standards Act, June 25, 1938, 52 Stat. 1060, ... to correct and eliminate the labor conditions detrimental to the maintenance 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...

...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...

...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...

...that it: ". . . finds that the existence, in industries engaged in commerce or in the production of goods for commerce, of labor conditions detrimental...maintenance of the minimum standard of living necessary for the health, efficiency, and general well being of workers. . . . "It is hereby declared to be the policy...

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

...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,...

...policy, Congress found that "the existence, in industries engaged in commerce or in the production of goods for commerce, of labor conditions detrimental...health, efficiency and general well-being of workers" burdened commerce, and constituted an unfair method of competition, and that it led to labor disputes...

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

...eliminate * * * without substantially curtailing employment or earning power" such labor conditions as are 'detrimental to the maintenance of the minimum standard...health, efficiency, and general well-being of workers." Certain standards relating to minimum wages, overtime compensation and the use of child labor were...