MEXICO: Honest Pleasures

President Abelardo Rodriguez had something so important to say to Mexico last week that for the first time all Mexican radio stations were linked in a national hookup. He broadcast:

"My Government has just established a minimum day wage effective throughout Mexico! I appeal for universal support of this minimum wage to restore Prosperity. . . . The theory of starvation wages and of overworked labor has now been scrapped in Mexico! The workman must be able to supply himself and his family not only with material necessities but also with honest pleasures...

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