Feb. 17, 195370 years ago Homer E Krog of Birmingham, Region IV Director, Wage and Public Contracts Divisions, U.S. Department of Labor, said today that ending of wage and price controls has had no effect whatever insofar as the minimum wage and maximum hours provisions of the Federal Wage and Hour Law are concerned. “A few misinformed persons,” said Krog,” seem, to be under the impression that when the President recently terminated controls on wages and prices he also did away with the 75 cents minimum wage and 40-hour workweek. They are of course mistaken. Wage and salary stabilization were...

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