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Ruth Widdis 1906 - 1973

Ruth Widdis of Ferndale, Oakland County, Michigan was born on November 19, 1906, and died at age 66 years old in August 1973.

Ruth Widdis
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Ferndale, Oakland County, Michigan 48220
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November 19, 1906
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August 1973
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In 1906, in the year that Ruth Widdis was born, author Upton Sinclair exposed the public-health threat of the meat-packing industry in his book The Jungle. While his intent was to show the lives of exploited lives of immigrants in Chicago and other industrialized cities, most people were horrified by how the meat that ended up on their tables was handled. There was such an outcry that legislation was passed to regulate meat packing. Sinclair said " "I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach."
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In 1938, when she was 32 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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Widdis, Dorothy (Oct 26, 1914 - Jan 1973) Widdis, Althea (Nov 25, 1905 - Dec 1982) Widdis, Louise (Sep 15, 1907 - Sep 19, 1998) Widdis, Robert (Mar 25, 1914 - Mar 20, 2003) Widdis, James (Sep 10, 1910 - Feb 1974) Widdis, Helen (Feb 27, 1914 - Oct 30, 1996) Widdis, Francis (Dec 15, 1908 - May 1986) Widdis, Kenneth (Nov 4, 1931 - Jan 1, 1994) Widdis, Stella (Jan 11, 1897 - Jun 1985) Widdis, Marion (Jun 20, 1900 - Jul 1973)
Widdis, Grace (Feb 9, 1911 - Jan 1986) Widdis, Bernard (Dec 28, 1910 - Aug 1986) Widdis, Rometta (Sep 24, 1901 - Oct 1975) Widdis, William (Sep 10, 1898 - May 1973) Widdis, Edith (Feb 17, 1896 - Apr 1979) Widdis, James (Sep 24, 1930 - Sep 2, 1999) Widdis, Christophe (Feb 20, 1921 - May 28, 2004) Widdis, Charles (Jan 1, 1955 - Jan 15, 2001) Widdis, Marion (Oct 14, 1928 - Mar 5, 1996) Widdis Jr, James (Jul 3, 1939 - Mar 1969)
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