MINIMUM WAGE LEGISLATION STATUS

212 THE PRESENT STATUS OF MINIMUM WAGE LEGISLATION WITH SOME FACTS ABOUT THE NEED IN MARYLAND Iy Mildred Rankin Secretary of the Consumers League of Maryland. When John R Commons began a discussion of minimum wage in an economic classroom at the University of Wisconsin this summer he said something like this. We no longer have to theorize about minimum wage legislation a little experience is worth many volumes of theory when 1 tell you it is working in. New Zealand and in Australia in England and now in regon Washington Massachusetts and several other States nine in all that is enough.

So it is that the emphasis in this article will be not as it was in discussing the problem a year ago on reasons for support ing minimum wage legislation firstly physical secondly economic thirdly moral but on what has been and is being done in places where the cause is no more and no less aggravating than in Maryland Thus may we find courage to face the local situation. In the experience of others may we find release from what. Mrs Kelley has called the surfeit of speculation as to probable effects of establishing a minimum wage.