Retirement System for Employees of Carriers: Hearing Before a Subcommittee...on S. 3151...July 11, 15, and 22, 1935 |
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... enactment hereof is in the service of a carrier , or who at or after the enactment hereof is in the employment relation to a carrier , and ( 2 ) each officer or other official representative of an " employee organization " ( herein ...
... enactment hereof is in the service of a carrier , or who at or after the enactment hereof is in the employment relation to a carrier , and ( 2 ) each officer or other official representative of an " employee organization " ( herein ...
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... enactment of this Act . ( n ) The term " enactment " means the date on which this Act may be approved by the President or be finally passed . RETIREMENT SEC . 2. Retirement shall be compulsory , three months after the effective date ...
... enactment of this Act . ( n ) The term " enactment " means the date on which this Act may be approved by the President or be finally passed . RETIREMENT SEC . 2. Retirement shall be compulsory , three months after the effective date ...
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... enactment of this Act shall expire , as designated by the President , one at the end of two years , one at the end of three years , and one at the end of four years , after the date of enactment of this Act . One member shall be ...
... enactment of this Act shall expire , as designated by the President , one at the end of two years , one at the end of three years , and one at the end of four years , after the date of enactment of this Act . One member shall be ...
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... enact a law regulating interstate commerce , the Supreme Court pointed out a number of things that they said made the law ... enactment of the law on June 27 , 1934 , were not connected with a railroad at all and who might not thereafter ...
... enact a law regulating interstate commerce , the Supreme Court pointed out a number of things that they said made the law ... enactment of the law on June 27 , 1934 , were not connected with a railroad at all and who might not thereafter ...
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... enact the appropriation act as introduced in the House of Represen- tatives . At the outset it should be clearly ... enactment of the Railroad Retirement Act of 1934 was attempted to be predicated on the power of Congress to regulate ...
... enact the appropriation act as introduced in the House of Represen- tatives . At the outset it should be clearly ... enactment of the Railroad Retirement Act of 1934 was attempted to be predicated on the power of Congress to regulate ...
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Page 16 - The party who invokes the power must be able to show not only that the statute is invalid but that he has sustained or is immediately in danger of sustaining some direct injury as the result of its enforcement, and not merely that he suffers in some indefinite way in common with people generally.
Page 101 - carrier" shall not include any street, interurban, or suburban electric railway, unless such railway is operating as a part of a general steam-railroad system of transportation, but shall not exclude any part of the general steam-railroad system of transportation now or hereafter operated by any other motive power.
Page 129 - Congress, in the execution of its powers, adopt measures which are prohibited by the constitution ; or should Congress, under the pretext of executing its powers pass laws for the accomplishment of objects not intrusted to the government, it would become the painful duty of this tribunal, should a case requiring such a decision come before it, to say that such an act was not the law of the land.
Page 12 - Notwithstanding any other law of the United States, or of any State, Territory, or of the District of Columbia, no annuity or pension payment shall be assignable or be subject to any tax or to garnishment, attachment, or other legal process under any circumstances whatsoever, nor shall the payment thereof be anticipated.
Page 40 - ... prior to the expiration of the term for which his predecessor was appointed shall be appointed for the remainder of such term; and (2) the terms of office of the members first taking office after the date of enactment of this Act...
Page 29 - employee" as used herein includes every person in the service of a carrier (subject to its continuing authority to supervise and direct the manner of rendition of his service...
Page 58 - Personnel SEC. 10. (a) There is hereby established as an independent agency in the executive branch of the Government a Railroad Retirement Board, to be composed of three members appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. Each member shall hold office for a term of five years, except that any member appointed to fill a vacancy occurring prior to the expiration of the term for which his predecessor was appointed shall be appointed for the remainder of the term and...
Page 121 - 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. Thus the act in a twofold sense is repugnant to the Constitution. It not only transcends the authority delegated to Congress over commerce, but also exerts a power as to a purely local matter to which the Federal authority does not...
Page 39 - carrier" includes any express company, sleeping-car company, carrier by railroad, subject to the Interstate Commerce Act, and any company which is directly or indirectly owned or controlled by or under common control with any carrier by railroad and which operates any equipment or facilities or performs any service (other than trucking service) in connection with the transportation, receipt, delivery, elevation, transfer in transit, refrigeration or icing, storage, and handling of property transported...
Page 24 - So long as the motive of Congress and the effect of its legislative action are to secure revenue for the benefit of the general government, the existence of other motives in the selection of the subjects of taxes cannot invalidate Congressional action.