“On this idea, the first part of the Act proposes to our industry a great spontaneous cooperation to put millions of men back in their regular jobs this summer. The idea is simply for employers to hire more men to do the existing work by reducing the work-hours of each man's week and at the same time…”— Franklin D. Roosevelt, docs.fdrlibrary.marist.eduTagged: Income Inequality, Minimum Wage, Economy, FDR, Great Depression
“No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country. By 'business' I mean the whole of commerce as well as the whole of industry; by workers I mean all workers, the white collar class as well as the men in overalls; and by…”— Franklin D. Roosevelt, docs.fdrlibrary.marist.eduTagged: Income Inequality, Minimum Wage, Economy, FDR, Great Depression