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FDR: There should be a floor to wages and a ceiling to hours.

On the recordMarch 2, 1938
There should be a floor to wages and a ceiling to hours.
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FDR
Democratic · New York

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Letter of Greeting on the Twenty-fifth Anniversary of the Department of Labor

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