Jewish Community Federation, Can- New Haven Jewish Community Counton, Ohio

Jewish Community Relations Commit- Norfolk Jewish Community Council tee of Charleston, S.C. Jewish Community Relations Council for Alameda and Contra Costa Counties, Oakland, Calif.

Jewish Community Federation, Cleve Central Florida Jewish Community land, Ohio Council (Orlando)

United Jewish Fund & Council, Col- Jewish Federation of Palm Beach umbus, Ohio

Connecticut Jewish Community Rela- Jewish Community Council of Patertions Council

Eastern Union County, N.J., Jewish Jewish Community Relations Council

Jewish Community Council of Essex Jewish Federation of Portland, Maine

Indianapolis Jewish Community Rela- San Francisco Jewish Community tions Council

Jewish Community Council, Jackson- Jewish Community Council, Schenecville, Fla.

National Community Relations Advisory Council Constituent Organizations—

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LOCAL, STATE, AND COUNTY AGENCIES-continued

Scranton-Lackawanna Jewish Council
Jewish Federation of Springfield, Ill.
Jewish Community Council of Toledo
Jewish Federation of Trenton
Tulsa Jewish Community Council
Jewish Community Council, Utica
Jewish Community Council of Greater
Washington

Jewish Federation of Waterbury
Wyoming Valley Jewish Committee,
Wilkes-Barre, Pa.

Jewish Community Relations Council
of the Jewish Federation of Youngs-
town, Ohio

Statement of THE VIRGINIA WHITE SPEEL REPUBLICAN WOMEN'S CLUB OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

Mr. Chairman, my name is Ida Smith Taylor. My address is 421 T Street NW., Washington, D.C. I am representing the Virginia White Speel Republican Women's Club of the District of Columbia, an organization affiliated with the Republican State Committee in and for the District of Columbia.

We wish to submit for the record this statement of endorsement for Senate bill S. 2342, H.R. 8184, and H.R. 8178, 87th Congress.

Thanks for the privilege of appearing before you.

I am authorized to speak in support of Senate bill S. 2342, H.R. 8184 and H.R. 8178, 87th Congress, a resolution that will give to our city an elected mayor and city council.

The Republican Party's platform of 1960 called for some measure of selfgovernment for District residents. The Washington, D.C., primary election, May 3, 1960, showed that Republicans voted 4 to 1 for an elected legislature. The residents of Washington have no one to represent them in Congress. This we feel is "taxation without representation." We should have the right to elect a Member of the House of Representatives from the District.

We favor a mayor elected every 4 years to act as chief executive of the District in order that the 765,000 people in Washington may have a liaison with the House of Representatives. We favor a District Delegate elected every 2 years who will sit on the House District Committee and exercise all prerogatives of a Representative except voting.

There are hundreds of purely local problems which require hundreds of hours of Congressmen's time, such as property transfer, snow removal, sanitary measures, etc. Washingtonians need and deserve the right to vote for a more equitable payment by Congress to the District government to cover the costly public service and housekeeping duties rendered to the vast nontaxable property. This imposes an unfair tax burden upon local residents. Citizens who serve the Federal Government should not be penalized by being deprived of their voting rights.

In our opinion the Founding Fathers of the Republic on behalf of the Federal City, favored a municipal legislature for local purposes and derived from the suffrages of District residents.

With the foregoing remarks we would like to go on record as favoring the Kennedy administration home rule bill.

STATEMENT BY JOHN J. SEXTON, CHAIRMAN, HOME RULE COMMITTEE, YOUNG DEMOCRATIC CLUB OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

LOCAL RULE FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA-AN OPPORTUNITY TO PUT STATES RIGHTS PRINCIPLES INTO ACTION

The Young Democratic Club of the District of Columbia believes that the Congress should enact the administration home rule bill for the District of Columbia and thereby restore to District residents a basic right which is the birthright of every American, the right of local residents to choose, democratically, the leaders who will administer local government.

We particularly urge those who are quick to defend States rights and who favor, on other matters, State and local control rather than control by the

Federal Government, to be consistent in the District of Columbia and support home rule. District of Columbia residents are entitled to elect their own leaders just as do the residents of every other city in the Nation.

Support for home rule for the District of Columbia has long been the consistent position of the Young Democratic Club of the District of Columbia and of the Young Democratic Clubs of America. In April of this year the Young Democratic Clubs of the District of Columbia, assembled in the District of Columbia convention, reaffirmed this position. In January of this year the national convention of the Young Democratic Clubs of America reaffirmed its position in support of home rule for the District of Columbia.

The present system is one of control by the Federal Government of local matters. Restoring home rule to the District of Columbia is an opportunity to put into effect the principle of local control over local affairs.

AMEND THE MINIMUM WAGE LAW OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

EIGHTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS

FIRST SESSION

ON

H.R. 8423

TO AMEND THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA MINIMUM WAGE LAW
TO PROVIDE BROADER COVERAGE, IMPROVED STANDARDS OF
MINIMUM WAGE AND OVERTIME COMPENSATION PROTECTION,
AND IMPROVED MEANS OF ENFORCEMENT

28-199

DECEMBER 11, 1963

Printed for the use of the

Committee on the District of Columbia

U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE

WASHINGTON: 1964