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Edwin Reitsma 1894 - 1970

Edwin Reitsma of Sheldon, Obrien County, Iowa was born on May 4, 1894, and died at age 75 years old in April 1970.

Edwin Reitsma

Sheldon, Obrien County, Iowa 51201

May 4, 1894

April 1970

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In 1894, in the year that Edwin Reitsma was born, on April 21st, a coal miners' strike closed mines throughout the central United States. The Panic of 1893, and the resulting depression, hit coal miners hard and the miners only struck for 8 weeks - they couldn't afford to live without their wages any longer.

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In 1938, when he was 44 years old, on June 25th (a Saturday) the Fair Labor Standards Act was signed into law by President Roosevelt (along with 120 other bills). The Act banned oppressive child labor, set the minimum hourly wage at 25 cents, and established the maximum workweek at 44 hours. It faced a lot of opposition and in fighting for it, Roosevelt said "Do not let any calamity-howling executive with an income of $1,000 a day, ...tell you...that a wage of $11 a week is going to have a disastrous effect on all American industry."

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