Fair Labor Standards Act Quotes

[The Fair Labor Standards Act] will destroy small industry….[these ideas are] the product of those whose thinking is rooted in an alien philosophy and who are bent upon the destruction of our whole constitutional system and the setting up of a red-labor communistic despotism upon the ruins of our Christian civilization.

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Representative Edward Cox (D-GA). 1938.
313504/21/1938 | Full Details | Law(s): Fair Labor Standards Act

[The Fair Labor Standards Act] constitutes a step in the direction of communism, bolshevism, fascism, and Nazism.

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The National Association of Manufacturers. 1938.
313304/21/1938 | Full Details | Law(s): Fair Labor Standards Act

[The Fair Labor Standards Act] would create chaos in business never yet known to us.... It sets an all-time high in crackpot legislation. Let me make it very clear that I am not opposed to the social theory.... No decent American citizen can take exception to this attitude. What I do take exception to is any approach to a solution of this problem which is utterly impractical and in operation would be much more destructive than constructive to the very purposes which it is designed to serve.

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U.S. Representative Arthur Phillip Lamneck (D-OH).
313411/16/1937 | Full Details | Law(s): Fair Labor Standards Act