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 Senate had planned to set up an independent Fair Labor Standards Board. with quasi-judicial powers (like NLRB's) to halt the transit in interstate commerce of goods produced under conditions not conforming to the act. The House planned to empower the Labor Department to go into the States and see to it that goods for interstate commerce were...
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