Lawmakers agreed to draft an ordinance raising the $9-an-hour base wage to $15 by 2020 for as many as 800,000 workers, making L.A. the largest city in the nation to adopt a major minimum-wage hike. Chicago, San Francisco and Seattle already have approved similar increases, and raising the federal minimum wage has moved to the forefront of the Democratic Party's agenda.
The tin whistle, also known as the penny whistle, Irish whistle, or just plain old whistle, is an instrument with a plastic or wooden fipple, or mouthpiece, and a metal body tube. They are fairly easy to play and the fingerings are similar to that of the saxophone, clarinet, and flute.
whistle. 1  fipple flute - The same as a recorder or flageoletâa flute blown from one end like a whistle. 2  pistol - Derives from a Czechoslovakian word meaning whistle, and evolved into the name of the firearm because of a resemblance in shape. 3  lanyard - The cord holding a whistle.  quill - The whistle of a steam engine.