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without the min wage, corpoations and companies were forcing people to work for poverty wages, having them live in corporate owned tenets, buying corporate goods and food from corporate stores in the tenet compounds.
I say it was very obvious how the common laborer was going to be treated.
The min wage allows a decent living from those that are selling a product for profit.
The min. wage does not hurt industries as it is shown that many corporations and companies operatiing in the US have had a great increase in profit while lowering wages and increasing work demand. In my feild of masonry the hourly pay for layers was 10- 14 dollars an hour in 1983. Today a bricklayer makes 12-14 dollars and hour. Hardly has this wage increased as much as the rest of society but was suppressed by the onslaught of illegals being hired to work for a smaller wage because in housing construction there is no set price for labour, only a bidding system.
"...were forcing people..."
Bulletin!!!
"The Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution officially outlaws slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime. It was passed by the Senate on April 8, 1864, by the House on January 31, 1865, and adopted on December 6, 1865. On December 18, Secretary of State William H. Seward proclaimed it to have been adopted. It was the first of the three Reconstruction Amendments adopted after the American Civil War."
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