The Archive · 1936

ANOTHER SET-BACK

The Supreme Court's majority deci-minimum wages children in certain forms of employment is another serious blow to the United States Government's efforts for "industrial reform. President Roosevelt has shown himself resourceful in dealing with the various disappointments which have come to him'from the Court and he may be trusted to devise means for prosressive action on other lines. The mere fact that the decision was reached by a narrow majority will probably encourage his advisers in their Search for solution. Whatever may bbe the defects of the various me tures taken by the President to ensure the recovery of the country from its economic and social difieulties, there fe little doubt that many of them have embodied long overdue reforms which are necessary to the continued advancement of" Industry and to the removal of disabilities fnimieal to the well-being of the industrial population,

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