โ€No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country. By โ€˜businessโ€™ I mean the whole of commerce as well as the whole of industry; by workers I mean all workers, the white collar class as well as the men in overalls; and by living wages I mean more than a bare subsistence level โ€“ I mean the wages of decent living.โ€

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Statement on the National Industrial Recovery Act (1933)