The minimum pay for the season is $4,000 for three weeks.
The Act had established wage committees to fix minimum agricultural pay; these, too, were soon abandoned.
The Government wants to keep the economic momentum going by holding down inflation with minimum pay raises and money for labor projects.
At the time domestic workers were excluded form such protections as human rights, worker's compensation and minimum pay.
Under the bill, the minimum pay for a beginning teachers with a bachelor's degree would have gone to about $24,000 a year from about $15,000.
Neither of these groups is much affected by the minimum pay and royalties negotiated on their behalf.
The minimum pay for enlisted soldiers was $0.80 a day, roughly equivalent to the pay of an American private.
Increasingly," she said, "we are seeing the working poor, who receive minimum pay and no benefits.
Ford announced his $5-per-day program on January 5, 1914, raising the minimum daily pay from $2.34 to $5 for qualifying workers.
Union efforts to raise safety standards cause controversy with miners because they can earn better than minimum pay only by ignoring such rules.
