II. THE FEDERAL PROGRAM DOMESTIC AFFAIRS. / 4. POLICIES IN SPECIFIC FIELDS./(e) Minimum wage: Full employment and full production may be achieved only by maintaining a level of consumer income far higher than that of the prewar period. A high level of consumer income will maintain the market for the output of our mills, farms, and factories, which we have demonstrated during the war years that we can produce. One of the basic steps which the Congress can take to establish a high level of consumer income is to amend the Fair Labor Standards Act to raise substandard wages to a decent mini mum and to extend similar protection to additional workers who are not covered by the present act.