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Omaha Steve

(103,460 posts) Thu Jun 25, 2015, 08:31 PM Jun 2015

6-25-15 FDR signs the FLSA in 2:00

http://laborhistoryin2.podbean.com/e/june-25-fdr-signs-the-flsa/

On this day in Labor History the year was 1938. That was the day the President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed the Fair Labor Standards Act. The night before he signed that landmark act, he addressed the nation in one his famous “fire side chats.”

2:00 minute audio at link

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