Six-hour Day--five-day Week: Hearings ... on H.R. 14105... Jan. 18-30, 19331933 - 262 pages |
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... less than $ 1,000 or by imprisonment for not more than three months , or by both such fine and imprisonment , in the discretion of the court . STATEMENT OF HON . WILLIAM GREEN , PRESIDENT OF THE AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR The CHAIRMAN ...
... less than $ 1,000 or by imprisonment for not more than three months , or by both such fine and imprisonment , in the discretion of the court . STATEMENT OF HON . WILLIAM GREEN , PRESIDENT OF THE AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR The CHAIRMAN ...
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... less clothing by putting more people to work we have in- creased the buying power of the people and thereby we start things going . Mr. GREEN . It increases the demand for goods and that means more workers . Mr. GRISWOLD . I understood ...
... less clothing by putting more people to work we have in- creased the buying power of the people and thereby we start things going . Mr. GREEN . It increases the demand for goods and that means more workers . Mr. GRISWOLD . I understood ...
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... less than 47 . In five food industries and clothing industries hours are longer now than they were in 1930 ; they have either increased or remained the same during the depression . In 5 steel industries hours have decreased somewhat ...
... less than 47 . In five food industries and clothing industries hours are longer now than they were in 1930 ; they have either increased or remained the same during the depression . In 5 steel industries hours have decreased somewhat ...
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... less rapidly this fall than in any other depression year . Even in the fall of 1929 the in- crease in unemployment was greater than it has been this year . In the three years before 1932 industrial and farm lay - offs threw nearly ...
... less rapidly this fall than in any other depression year . Even in the fall of 1929 the in- crease in unemployment was greater than it has been this year . In the three years before 1932 industrial and farm lay - offs threw nearly ...
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... less by 300,000 than in any other year in this depression . This may be explained in part by the fact that the decline in business has slackened and that employment is already cut to skeleton forces ; but doubtless the widespread effort ...
... less by 300,000 than in any other year in this depression . This may be explained in part by the fact that the decline in business has slackened and that employment is already cut to skeleton forces ; but doubtless the widespread effort ...
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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.