Six-hour Day--five-day Week: Hearings ... on H.R. 14105... Jan. 18-30, 19331933 - 262 pages |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 96
Page 1
... situation , it is my opinion . that 50 per cent of the population of the United States are very seriously affected by this distressing economic situation . The 1 seriousness of the situation is emphasized by the fact that.
... situation , it is my opinion . that 50 per cent of the population of the United States are very seriously affected by this distressing economic situation . The 1 seriousness of the situation is emphasized by the fact that.
Page 2
... economic situation , of course , has made a very large contribution toward this alarming situation , but back of it all is the mechaniza- tion of industry that has been going on for two decades and grad- ually men have been displaced ...
... economic situation , of course , has made a very large contribution toward this alarming situation , but back of it all is the mechaniza- tion of industry that has been going on for two decades and grad- ually men have been displaced ...
Page 3
... economic problems since the child - labor case was decided ; and the committee will probably remember that that decision was a 5-4 decision , and , owing to certain developments which had taken place , labor at least is of the opinion ...
... economic problems since the child - labor case was decided ; and the committee will probably remember that that decision was a 5-4 decision , and , owing to certain developments which had taken place , labor at least is of the opinion ...
Page 5
... economic situation that prevailed then , the number of days per week and the number of hours per day , we could find work for only 55 per cent . I stated that those figures have been offered by economists and experts . I am not sure ...
... economic situation that prevailed then , the number of days per week and the number of hours per day , we could find work for only 55 per cent . I stated that those figures have been offered by economists and experts . I am not sure ...
Page 9
... economic power at our command to establish the same rates of pay for the shorter workday and the shorter work week as now received for the longer workday and the longer work week . That is our objective . That is in accordance with our ...
... economic power at our command to establish the same rates of pay for the shorter workday and the shorter work week as now received for the longer workday and the longer work week . That is our objective . That is in accordance with our ...
Common terms and phrases
5-day week 6-hour day amendment American Federation article or commodity authority bankers believe bill bituminous board of directors cent CHAIRMAN Chase National Bank child labor coal commercial banks committee Congress Constitution constitutionality corporations Dagenhart days a week decision depression Drexel Furniture Co economic ELLZEY EMERY employed employees employment FARQUHARSON Federal Trade Commission FREY Gompers Government GRISWOLD Higginson & Co hours a day hours of labor increased interstate commerce Interstate Commerce Commission judicial Justice legislation loans LOVETTE machine matter means ment mills mining Miss KILBRETH MURRAY operation opinion organization partners power to provide president private banks production proposed purchasing power question railroad RAMSPECK reduced regulate represent RIEVE Samuel Gompers Short-Line Railroad six hours statement Supreme Court thing tion to-day trade association transportation unconstitutional unemployed United wage earners Washington WELCH welfare clause workers
Popular passages
Page 159 - Resolved, that each branch ought to possess the right of originating acts; that the national legislature ought to be empowered to enjoy the legislative rights vested in Congress by the Confederation, and moreover to legislate in all cases to which the separate states are incompetent or in which the harmony of the United States may be interrupted by the exercise of individual legislation...
Page 73 - No distinction is more popular to the common mind or more clearly expressed in economic and political literature than that between manufactures and commerce. Manufacture is transformation — the fashioning of raw materials into a change of form for use.
Page 135 - In our view the necessary effect of this act is, by means of a prohibition against the movement in interstate commerce of ordinary commercial commodities, to regulate the hours of labor of children in factories and mines within the States, a purely state authority.
Page 163 - ... raise the men, and clothe, arm and equip them in a soldier-like manner, at the expense of the United States; and the officers and men so clothed, armed and equipped shall march to the place appointed, and within the time agreed on by the United States in Congress assembled...
Page 73 - Slight reflection will show that if the national power extends to all contracts and combinations in manufacture, agriculture, mining, and other productive industries, whose ultimate result may affect external commerce, comparatively little of business operations and affairs would be left for state control.
Page 167 - Ruler of Nations, with His eternal truth and justice, be on your side of the North, or on yours of the South, that truth and that justice will surely prevail...
Page 97 - Constitution and no Congress their power to cross the line would depend upon their neighbors. Under the Constitution such commerce belongs not to the States but to Congress to regulate. It may carry out its views of public policy whatever indirect effect they may have upon the activities of the States. Instead of being encountered by a prohibitive tariff at her boundaries the State encounters the public policy of the United States which it is for Congress to express. The public policy of the United...
Page 97 - ... their domestic commerce as they like. But when they seek to send their products across the State line they are no longer within their rights. If there were no Constitution and no Congress their power to cross the line would depend upon their neighbors. Under the Constitution such commerce belongs not to the States but to Congress to regulate. It may carry out its views of public policy whatever indirect effect they may have upon the activities of the States.
Page 73 - If it be held that the term includes the regulation of all such manufactures as are intended to be the subject of commercial transactions in the future, it is impossible to deny that it would also include all productive industries that contemplate the same thing. The result would be that Congress would be invested to the exclusion of the States, with the power to regulate, not only manufacture, but also agriculture, horticulture, stock raising, domestic fisheries, mining — in short, every branch...
Page 97 - The act does not meddle with anything belonging to the States. They may regulate their internal affairs and their domestic commerce as they like. But when they seek to send their products across the State line they are no longer within their rights.