Excerpt from Minimum Wage Board; Hearing Before the Subcommittee of the Committee on the District of Columbia, United States Senate, Sixty-Fifth Congress, Second Session, on S. 3993: A Bill to Protect the Lives and Health and Morals of Women and Minor Workers in the District of Columbia, and to Establish a Minimum Wage Board and Define Its Powers and Duties, and to Provide for the Fixing of Minimum Wages for Such Workers The subcommittee had under consideration the bill (s. 3993) to protect the lives and health and morals Of women and minor workers in the District Of Columbia, etc., which is as follows: A bill To protect the lives and health and morals of women and minor workers in the District of Columbia, and to establish a minimum wage board and define its powers and duties, and to provide for the fixing of minimum wages for such workers, and to provide penalties for violation of this act. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.