Six-hour Day--five-day Week: Hearings ... on H.R. 14105... Jan. 18-30, 19331933 - 262 pages |
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... give H. R. 14105 my personal and official approval . This approval is based upon my understand- ing of the unemployment situation as it now prevails throughout the United States . It is most distressing and , in my opinion , alarming ...
... give H. R. 14105 my personal and official approval . This approval is based upon my understand- ing of the unemployment situation as it now prevails throughout the United States . It is most distressing and , in my opinion , alarming ...
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... give more men employ- . ment , but the company continued to reduce the number of employees . Mr. GREEN . Eight hundred thousand railroad workers have been displaced . Mr. GRISWOLD . That was the result of the Chicago agreement be- tween ...
... give more men employ- . ment , but the company continued to reduce the number of employees . Mr. GREEN . Eight hundred thousand railroad workers have been displaced . Mr. GRISWOLD . That was the result of the Chicago agreement be- tween ...
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... give the workers a fair and just reward in connection with the increased efficiency . Mr. GRISWOLD . Agreeing with the experience in connection with shortening working hours and effecting greater efficiency of produc- tion , is it not ...
... give the workers a fair and just reward in connection with the increased efficiency . Mr. GRISWOLD . Agreeing with the experience in connection with shortening working hours and effecting greater efficiency of produc- tion , is it not ...
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... give work to all those who desire it . Approximately 25,000,000 people seek work in these industries as wage and salaried workers and 8.260,000 are now unemployed . A 30 - hour week would give employment to 6,500,000 , but would leave ...
... give work to all those who desire it . Approximately 25,000,000 people seek work in these industries as wage and salaried workers and 8.260,000 are now unemployed . A 30 - hour week would give employment to 6,500,000 , but would leave ...
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... give that money to those idle work- ers , which would be the better , to adjust the work time of those employed so that more may be employed , or let a few earn the money and give it to others ? Mr. GREEN of Florida . The American ...
... give that money to those idle work- ers , which would be the better , to adjust the work time of those employed so that more may be employed , or let a few earn the money and give it to others ? Mr. GREEN of Florida . The American ...
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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.