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The National Outlook
Kennedy Wins On Minimum Wage
By Ralph Robey
So tor President Kennedy has!
lost only one remotely signifi
cant test with the Congress.
This was on minimum wages and
the defeat was by only one vote
in the House. That has now
been wiped out and we have a
new minimum wage bill.
The legislative history on this
has been unusual and signifi
cant.
When Mr. Kennedy was a
Senator he worked hard for in
creasing the minimum wage to
$1.25 (it is now $1.00) and
broadly extending the coverage.
The Eisenhower Administration
was in favor of a modest ex
tension of those to be covered
but it wanted the minimum in
crease to only $1.15. There was
extensive Congressional debate
but no agreement was ever
reached and so nothing was
done.
This year President Kennedy
again proposed the minimum be
lifted to $1.25 and that cover
age be extended by well over
four million. The House took
up the measure first and it re
fused to go along with the Pres
ident. It passed a bill lifting
the minimum to $1.15 and pro
viding for only a quite limited
additional coverage. This was
the measure which was enacted
by a one vote margin. Then
the Senate began its delibera
tion and, in time, as was ex
pected, passed a bill almost as
recommended by the President.
The next step, of course, was
to iron out the differences be
tween the two bills by means of
a conference committee. This
was not easy and for a consid
erable period there was some
reason to believe that no solu
tion could be found. The great
problem was to win over enough
Southern votes to assure House
acceptance to the conference
committee report. This was done
by eliminating from coverage
various groups which the South
ern House members were in
sistent should not be brought
under the Act. The largest sin
gle group was laundry workers.
The bill extends the coverage
by an estimated 3,600,000 work
cimp
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ers, and of these about 2,000,000
are retail employees. This is
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ers have been covered.
Provisions for lifting the mini
mum wage are most complicat
ed. Some go up immediately,
but the $1.25 figure does not go
into effect until the fall of
1963.
Now everyone likes to see
wages go up when the increase
is justified. But that is entirely
different from having increases
forced by law, which is what
this particular measure does.
This is not just a matter of
raising the pay of those now
receiving less than a dollar an
hour. There is a pretty well
established differential in wages
all up the line, and this will
have to be maintained. This
means that if those getting be
low a dollar are raised, all of
those earning more than that
must be paid more. This ap
plies even to the highest paid
hourly workers in the nation.
In some instances the higher
wages can be absorbed out of
profits, but this is not true in
most cases. At other places
prices either will have to be
raised or the employers will go
bankrupt. At still other places
the increased minimum will be
above the value produced by
the employee and the employer
will have no choice but to dis
charge the worker.
At a time when unemploy
ment is a serious problem, when
business profits are under a se
vere squeeze, when the public
will not stand for a further in
crease of prices, when there is
need for increased capital in
vestment and reduced costs of
production, and when we are
just getting out of a business
slump, it is etremely unfortun
ate to have a higher general
wage scale forced upon the
economy by legislation.
Again, it should be emphasiz
ed that higher wages are de
sirable when justified. The dif
ficulty in this case is that there
is no relation between what has
to be paid and what is earned
through production.
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\ abundant life
ORAL ROIERTS
ARE YOU AN "ADOPTED" CHILD?
I heard a touching story the
other day about the young
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"You don't really belong to
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"That's not true! I do belong
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she cried hysterically.
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"Judy said I am adopted and
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"When you were just a tiny
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as the stars belong in the sky.
You are our own little girl, and
we love you very much.”
Convinced of her parents’
love, Sherry never again worried
because she was adopted. She
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was loved and wanted.
We, too, have been chosen
by the love of God. In 1 Peter
2:9 we are told, "But ye are a
chosen generation....” We are
His children, His chosen people.
God’s love for His people is
so great that He sent His only
Son into the world that we might
be saved from our sins. (John
3:16.) We have been adopted
by His love. God wants us to
come to Him because He loves
us. When we choose Christ and
accept Him as our personal
Saviour, all His blessings are
Ours. \
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need not be defeated by sin,
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ised to be your shelter in the
storm, your light in darkness,
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