Part 1 of Essay
Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938: Maximum Struggle for a Minimum Wage When he felt the time was ripe, Secretary of Labor Perkins, 'What happened to that nice unconstitutional bill you had tucked away?' On Saturday, June 25, 1938, to avoid pocket vetoes 9 days after Congress had adjourned, President Franklin D. Roosevelt si ....

Part 2 of Essay
.... Roosevelt expressed a similar sentiment in a "fireside chat" the night before the signing. He warned: "Do not let any calamity-howling executive with an income of $1,000 a day, ...tell you...that a wage of $11 a week is going to have a disastrous effect on all American industry."2 In light of the social legislation of 1978, Americans today may be astonished that a law with such moderate standards could have been thought so revolutionary. Courting disaster The Supreme Court had been one of the major obst ....