(April 26, 2014 at 12:44 am)Coffee Jesus Wrote: I don't see anything about that in the Wikipedia article on the act that first introduced minimum wage in the US.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_Labor...ct_of_1938
“The Caucasians are not going to let their standard of living be destroyed by Negroes, Chinamen, Japs or any others.” - Samuel Gompers.
Rep. Clayton Allgood complained during debates about the Davis-Beacon act that, "Cheap coloured labor is in competition with white labor throughout the country"
Prior to that in Canada, "The Board of Adjustment has always taken the view that, if employers were obliged to conform to a higher standard of wages in the employment of Oriental labour, such labour would tend to become less desirable from an employer’s point of view, and to a certain extent would be substituted by the employment of white help.” - Labour Gazette - 1928