To: E. Pluribus Unum
Child labor laws weren’t for the benefit of the children or their families, they were enacted for the benefit of the unions.
4 posted on
04/12/2012 11:08:50 AM PDT by
achilles2000
("I'll agree to save the whales as long as we can deport the liberals")
To: achilles2000
Child labor laws weren’t for the benefit of the children or their families, they were enacted for the benefit of the unions Minimum wage, too.
The minimum wage was invented to do one thing; protect white unionized construction workers from competition from black, non-unionized construction workers, who were paid less (blacks were banned from union membership during the 1930s).
The year the minimum wage law went into effect was the last year the unemployment rate of blacks was lower than that for whites.
5 posted on
04/12/2012 11:10:22 AM PDT by
E. Pluribus Unum
(Over half of U.S. murders are of black people, and 90% of them are committed by other black people.)
To: achilles2000
Child labor laws weren’t for the benefit of the children or their families, they were enacted for the benefit of the unions.
Bingo! And my 10th. grade History and Civics Teacher in a public school was brave enough to stand up and tell us this.
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