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White House Statement on the Maintenance of Wage Levels.

July 28, 1931

NO MEMBER of the administration has expressed the view or holds the view that the policy of the administration in advocating maintenance of wages should be changed. It has not been changed.

Note: The statement followed the publication on July 27, 1931, of a letter by Secretary of Commerce Robert P. Lamont to Representative Francis Condon. In the letter the Secretary declared that interference in individual cases of wage reductions was not the duty of the Government.

As printed above, this item follows the text set forth in a contemporary news account.

Herbert Hoover, White House Statement on the Maintenance of Wage Levels. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/211671

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