{"id":128172,"date":"2015-11-07T22:04:46","date_gmt":"2015-11-07T22:04:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/11\/07\/do-not-let-any-calamity-howling-executive-with-an\/"},"modified":"2015-11-07T22:04:46","modified_gmt":"2015-11-07T22:04:46","slug":"do-not-let-any-calamity-howling-executive-with-an","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/11\/07\/do-not-let-any-calamity-howling-executive-with-an\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Do not let any calamity-howling executive with an income of $1,000 a day, who has been turning his employees over to the Government relief rolls in order to preserve his company\u2019s undistributed reserves, tell you \u2013 using his stockholders\u2019 money to pay the postage for his personal opinions \u2014 tell you that a wage of $11.00 a week is going to have a disastrous effect on all American industry.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'>Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1938, Fireside Chat, the night before signing the Fair Labor Standards Act that instituted the federal minimum wage (via <a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/derryderrydown.tumblr.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">derryderrydown<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do not let any calamity-howling executive with an income of $1,000 a day, who has been turning his employees over to the Government relief rolls in order to preserve his company\u2019s undistributed reserves, tell you \u2013 using his stockholders\u2019 money to pay the postage for his personal opinions \u2014 tell you that a wage of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/11\/07\/do-not-let-any-calamity-howling-executive-with-an\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[15088,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128172"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}