January 5

• 1914: Henry Ford, head of the Ford Motor Company, introduced a minimum wage scale of $5 per day.
• 1949: President Harry Truman, in his State of the Union address, called for national health insurance, raising the minimum wage, strengthening the position of organized labor, and guaranteed civil rights for all Americans; he called this reform package the "Fair Deal."

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