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Harry Truman: “The Fair Labor Standards Bill was drafted on the assumption that the Wage and Hour Division would be made an independent…”

On the recordApril 30, 1947
The Fair Labor Standards Bill was drafted on the assumption that the Wage and Hour Division would be made an independent establishment.
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Harry Truman
Democratic · Missouri

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Message to the Congress Transmitting Reorganization Plan 2 of 1947.

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