MINIMUM WAGE HURTS
THE POOR
By John F. McManus
Secretary of Labor Ray Mar-
shall has formally proposed
that Congress boost the min-
imum wage to $2.50 per
hour. Organized labor
wants a larger boost, to $3.00
per hour, from the current
$2.30. So the debate in
Congress will be over how
much the increase shall be
What Congress ought to do -
to help the poor, to stimulate
Mr. and Mrs. John Maline
Jr. and J.R. and Ted and
Galen came to the Maline
pay a higher wage than he home. Mr. and Mrs. John
can afford, he simply lets Maline visited at the Lloyd
employees go. The work that Bucher home in Belle
Fourche last Wednesday
was once done by Americaris
is now being done in Taiwan,
Hang Kong, and elsewhere.
A great deal of American
industry has closed its doors
because of minimum wage
laws, and a great deal more
has never gotten off the
drawing board.
Minimum wage laws are
especially harmful to young,
unskilled workers. Pre-
evening. Margaret Maline
and Laura Mitchell were in
Sundance on Wednesday last
week to help fill the Tote Bag
for the N.E. Regional Home-
makers Meeting.
That is all for news this
week. The snow plows were
a welcome sight on Thursday
night, so I guess we can get
business, and to cut welfare viously, an employer did not
- is abolish minimum wage have to pay high wages to
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laws. green teenagers while he ii!i
was training and making
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AseumedPower productive citizens out of
out now so there will be more APRIL 14, 1977
news next week.
VETERANS: HERE'S
YOUR ANSWER
Q -- I am an Army
retiree and waived my re-
tirement pay in lieu or VA
disability compensation.
May I have an allotment
withheld from my compen-
sation check to pay prem-
iums for a commercial in-
surance policy? A ~- No.
Q -- If my son enters the
Air Force Academy, will he
receive government life in-
THE SVNDANCE Tn S
surance?
A -- He will be covered
under Servicemen's Group
Life Insurance unless he
elects to waive his coverage.
Q -- If a veteran is entitled
to a one time VA car grant is
he entitled to adaptive
equipment for vehicles he
may subsequently purchase?
A -- Yes.
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Federal minimum wage them. Today, he cannot ii~i-
when Congress first decided result is an ever-growing
that it had the power to set a army of unemployed young
bottom limit on wages. In people.
the years since, the mini- Federal response to un-
mum wage has risen steadily employment, especially for
to the current $2.30, and the the young, is government
number of workers covered make-work projects financed Thu.rs. Fri, Sat,
has swelled so that the law by inflation - producing de- ~
now applies to virtually every ficits and ever higher taxes.
employee. Yet there is no The cycle leads to more of
constitutionm pasts for the th= ~,m,~ ;,,,4,,At,= ;,,~=~-
federal government to tell an e'd"med--'c~ng'l~ygove"r~nen--t
employer what he must pay a in areas it h-as no business to
worker. Congress simply enter.
assumed the power, claiming How many more workers
that it could do so because of will be thrown onto welfare
the Interstate Commerce rolls, and how many more
Clause ("Congress shall businesses will close, before ~---__=
have power ... to regulate Congress has the guts to i
commerce ..., among the admit that its minimum wage
severaistates' ). laws are a failure? The
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stitution certainly gave no not be whether or not to
such power. Its purpose was increase them but whether
to bar state - to - state tariffs they should exist at all. The
and trade restrictions But thin~ to do with minim"
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the Roosevelt Supreme Court wage laws is to abolish them.
"reinterpreted" the clans* Copyright 1977 The John ~ i i:;~Sn~d uttB~i,ira
in such a manner that win- Bir~'~cietv Features In the
dow washers in an office - car
building are covered by rain- A • • • * "
imum wage laws because A laaal n
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ants do business in several JudyBrengle 14.88 oct'- 11OO __,,:_.. ~..~.,,~
states. The same tortured April 1, 1977 $ On the
abuse of the real meaning How was that for going outSAVE 5 While they lash go
and intent of the Constitution like a lion? Boy did we get
is also applied to farm work- the snow~ like everyone else I 'Good Buddy' monitor scans all
ers, restaurant employees, guess. Unofficial reports
and all kinds of workers, from neighbors range from 40 channels... Locks in the ,
even though they and their 24 inches to 40 some inches. I strongest CB Signal in your area
employers in no way enter do know that it was waist LISTEN TO: • Traffic conditions
into interstate commerce, deep when~ you were trying to • Emergency calls • Truckers
After almost forty years of walk and find cows in it. The • Other CBer's • Road reports
this type of twisting of the neighbors haven t reported
Constitution, to satisfy much for a livestock loss. Join in the fun of CB life with this
Washington s ravenous ap-Just getting feed to them wascompact unit. Works on one 9-volt bat-
petite for power no one is a problem enough. I hope tery*. Metallic strip antenna included.
supposed to even question that is the spring storm for 43-ae72s
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' right to set wages. To do There really isn t much for
so is asking to be labelled an news as none of us were able
enemyofthepoor! to getto far. Dane and BrettDeYoe did get this far on He88 !r~elee' Bsp~i:r°
T,=,..m,= T,o..ere
But let s look beyond this snowed in at Hulett most of n
vast assumption of power, the week, and in Belle.
We are supposed to know for Marlene Garrett spent some
certain that minimum wage of the time with the Ted
laws help the poor and the Wflsone in Hulett, and in
unskilled. But just the op Belle with the Packers. /j
posite is true. Because they Mary and Jennifer Wolff
interfere with the normal visited at Alice Wolffs last
operations of the market Sunday, and Bill ,and Hulda
place, minimum wage laws Sipe called at Alice s on Sun-
have thrown countless hum- day evening. Mrs. White
bets of workers out of work visited Alice on Monday. Yo
and onto welfare rolls. When On Sunday John Maline
an employer is required to Sr., celebrated his birthday, )O Garden Tools
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