National Affairs

Floors & Ceilings

After ten laborious days and nights, conferees of the House and Senate brought out at last week's end a compromise on the Wages-&-Hours Bill to put a floor under Labor's pay, a ceiling over its working week.

The arithmetical formula of the bill:

Wages Hours

1st year 25-c- 44

2nd year 30-c- 42

3rd year 30-c- 40

After the 7th year 40-c- 40 This file is automatically generated by a robot program, so viewer discretion is required.