Retail Trade Min. Wage Board, 1945-1947

Summary: Consist chiefly of minutes and reports of New York State Minimum Wage Boards for the industries of hotels, restaurants, retail trade, laundry and cleaning service, amusement and leisure, confectionery and beauty service.

Files consist of the minutes of the public hearings of the New York State Minimum Wage Boards; the hearings before the industrial commissioner on the following industries: laundry and cleaning service, beauty service, confectionery, restaurant, and hotel (1947) and the amusement and leisure industries (1950-1951); and mandatory Board orders governing minimum wage standards in the hotel industry (1948), amusement and leisure industry (1951), laundry and cleaning industries (1947) and retail trade (1951).

Additionally, reports of the Boards for the laundry and cleaning industry (1933, 1938), the confectionery industry (1942), the hotel and restaurant industries (1935), and the amusement and leisure industry (1950-1951), as well as reports of the commissioner on the laundry and cleaning industry (1933, 1938), retail trade (1945) and the hotel and restaurant industries (1939-1940).

Also legal documents (briefs, opinions, decisions and resolutions) pertaining to cases appealed before the New York State Board of Standards and Appeals regarding Minimum Wage Board mandatory orders to the laundry and cleaning industry (1939), the restaurant and hotel industries (1941) and retail trade (1946) as well as a dissent by Eugene Foley (member, Retail Trade Minimum Wage Board) on a 1945 Board report to the industrial commissioner.

Finally, reports of the New York State Division of Industrial Relations on wages and hours of work in the N.Y. laundry and cleaning services industry (1937-1945), and on the operation of the retail trade minimum wage order in N.Y. (1945-1947) and of the Women's Trade Union League on conditions of women workers in the hotel and restaurant industry (n.d.)