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Mike Potkonak 1874 - 1972

Mike Potkonak of Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie County, Iowa was born on December 11, 1874, and died at age 98 years old in December 1972.

Mike Potkonak
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Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie County, Iowa 51501
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In 1874, in the year that Mike Potkonak was born, on May 20th, Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis were approved for a patent for "blue jeans with copper rivets". They charged $13.50 per dozen jeans. Although the term "jeans" was first used in 1795 - in Italy - using rivets to reinforce stress points in jeans such as pockets and the bottom of the fly was an original idea..
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In 1938, he was 64 years old when 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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