Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Utah's Minimum Wage Law for Females, Passed by the State Legislature of 1913, Became Effective May 13, 1913: Paper Read by H. T. Haines, Commissioner of Immigration, Labor and Statistics of Utah, Before the National Convention of Association of Government Labor Officials of the United States and Canada, at Nashville, Tenn; on June 9, 1914
Preliminary work leading to the preparation and presentation of a bill for the enactment of a minimum wage law had been performed by a committee of the Federation of Women's Clubs of our State and the bill itself was presented by a woman mem ber of the lower house of the Legislature, of Whom there were three. This bill followed closely the provisions of the bill first presented to the Massachusetts legislature, but which was later much amended and therefore considerably unlike the Bay State's minimum wage law in effect today.
The Utah bill provided for a commission, as have bills of all other States having minimum wage laws now in force or pending. The proposed commission was to have been composed of three persons, to be appointed by the Governor, one of whom was to have been a woman. The bill carried an appropriation of to meet the expenses of the commission for inquiring into the wages paid to women and girl employes in the various occupations in which they were engaged, with a View of ascer taining as nearly as possible the adequacy of the then prevail ing wages to supply the employes with the necessary cost of living and to maintain them in health.
The commission was further empowered to establish a wage board consisting of three representative employers, and an equal number of representative women employes, and one or more disinterested persons representing the public, whose duty it was to determine a minimum wage for women in occupations in which prevailing wages were found to be inadequate to meet the requirements of a living wage and to maintain the employes in health.
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