Show u 7 CENT 75 Cg T WAGE rAGE Ll LA LAW VIX V IX IN EFFECT EFFET The now new seventy-five-cent seventy minImum minimum min min- wage law estimated to cover about workers has gone into effect It raises the minimum wage from the forty- forty cent minimum provided by the older law There Is of or course some danger dan dau- ger gel in an any effort to fix wages or prices by legislature action Nevertheless Nevertheless Nev Nev- we recall the meanings and that greeted the I forty-cent forty minimum and the fact I that it did not produce the hard hard- l- l ships that were widely predicted by conservative and somewhat scary business men It Is too early to attempt an appraisal of ot the he workings of the tho seventy-five-cent seventy minimum but It Itis itis itis is not premature to conclude that the misgivings and forebodings so frequently heard arise from the same fears that produced the earlier moaning and groaning Lets Let's wait walt and see how the tho law affects our econom economy before condoning condoning condoning con con- it It might be he pointed out In this connection that many organized workers are protected by contracts contracts contracts con con- tracts of labor but that many unorganized unorganized unorganized un un- organized laborers must receive this protection if at a all through the operation of ot statutes |