New York (State). Division of Labor Standards selected minutes and reports of Minimum Wage Boards, 1933-1962.

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New York (State). Division of Labor Standards selected minutes and reports of Minimum Wage Boards, 1933-1962.

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Consist chiefly of minutes and reports of New York State Minimum Wage Boards for the industries of hotels, restaurants, retail trade, laundry and cleaning service, amusement and leisure, confectionery and beauty service. Files consist of the minutes of the public hearings of the New York State Minimum Wage Boards; the hearings before the industrial commissioner on the following industries: laundry and cleaning service, beauty service, confectionery, restaurant, and hotel (1947) and the amusement and leisure industries (1950-1951); and mandatory Board orders governing minimum wage standards in the hotel industry (1948), amusement and leisure industry (1951), laundry and cleaning industries (1947) and retail trade (1951). Additionally, reports of the Boards for the laundry and cleaning industry (1933, 1938), the confectionery industry (1942), the hotel and restaurant industries (1935), and the amusement and leisure industry (1950-1951), as well as reports of the commissioner on the laundry and cleaning industry (1933, 1938), retail trade (1945) and the hotel and restaurant industries (1939-1940). Also legal documents (briefs, opinions, decisions and resolutions) pertaining to cases appealed before the New York State Board of Standards and Appeals regarding Minimum Wage Board mandatory orders to the laundry and cleaning industry (1939), the restaurant and hotel industries (1941) and retail trade (1946) as well as a dissent by Eugene Foley (member, Retail Trade Minimum Wage Board) on a 1945 Board report to the industrial commissioner. Finally, reports of the New York State Division of Industrial Relations on wages and hours of work in the N.Y. laundry and cleaning services industry (1937-1945), and on the operation of the retail trade minimum wage order in N.Y. (1945-1947) and of the Women's Trade Union League on conditions of women workers in the hotel and restaurant industry (n.d.).

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National Women's Trade Union League of America

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The National Women’s Trade Union League of America (NWTUL) was established in Boston, MA in 1903, at the convention of the American Federation of Labor. It was organized as a coalition of working-class women, professional reformers, and women from wealthy and prominent families. Its purpose was to “assist in the organization of women wage workers into trade unions and thereby to help them secure conditions necessary for healthful and efficient work and to obtain a just reward for such work.” ...

Foley, Eugene

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New York (State). Division of Industrial Relations.

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New York (State). Retail Trade Minimum Wage Board.

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New York (State). Division of Labor Standards

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Boards were established under the New York State Minimum Wage Law (1933), in order to provide females and minors, employed in any occupation, "with wages sufficient to provide them with adequate maintenance to protect their health." Under the direction of the industrial commissioner, the tri-partite Minimum Wage Boards hold public hearings to review data on the cost-of-living, wages, and working conditions for a particular industry. The Boards then submit reports and tra...