“No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country." - Franklin Roosevelt, former President of the United States
Hugo Black, who originally proposed the Fair Labor Standards Act in 1932.
“Our Nation so richly endowed with natural resources and with a capable and industrious population should be able to devise ways and means of insuring to all our able-bodied working men and women a fair day’s pay for a fair day’s work. A self-supporting and self-respecting democracy can plead no justification for the existence of child labor, no economic reason for chiseling workers’ wages or stretching workers’ hours." - Franklin Roosevelt, former President of the United States
The Fair Labor Standards Act established a minimum wage and set age restrictions for workers. It was proposed by Senator Hugo Black in 1932, and a version of it was signed into law in 1938, as a part of President Franklin Roosevelt's "New Deal." This was an important step in the Ford workers' battle for their rights.