For years we have heard easy lip service “in principle” to the commonplace that it is bad for America, economically as well as socially, to have child labor, sweated labor, low standards of living, inhumane and unhealthy working conditions.
Publication Date
December 2, 1937
Citation
3 Vital Speeches_ 526 (1937) (presentation before the Joint Congressional Committee on Constitutionality of the Wages and Hours Bill, Washington, D.C., June 2, 1937).
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For years we have heard easy lip service "in principle" to the commonplace that it is bad for America, economically as well as socially, to have child labor, sweated labor, low standards of living, inhumane and unhealthy working conditions.
