Interstate Commerce in Products of Child Labor: Hearing...on H.R.8234...1916 - 319 pages |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 100
Page 5
... matter , unbiased by any other consideration - my judgment is there would not be a single vote against it . I can ... matters of larger moment - I would not say larger moment , because they are not larger - but matters which seem to more ...
... matter , unbiased by any other consideration - my judgment is there would not be a single vote against it . I can ... matters of larger moment - I would not say larger moment , because they are not larger - but matters which seem to more ...
Page 6
... matter of fact , most of the children that it applies to are under 14 years of age ; is that not a fact ? Mr. HAMILTON . Yes , sir . Senator UNDERWOOD . It is only with respect to the mines and quar- ries - those are the only portions ...
... matter of fact , most of the children that it applies to are under 14 years of age ; is that not a fact ? Mr. HAMILTON . Yes , sir . Senator UNDERWOOD . It is only with respect to the mines and quar- ries - those are the only portions ...
Page 11
... matter raised by the proposed national child - labor law , according to the terms of which children under the age of 16 will be prevented from all industrial production ? The advocates of the measure would say that it is to give to all ...
... matter raised by the proposed national child - labor law , according to the terms of which children under the age of 16 will be prevented from all industrial production ? The advocates of the measure would say that it is to give to all ...
Page 14
... 30 years . Mr. SMYTH . In 30 years : yes , sir . You will hear other testimony from physicians upon the same matter . 1 Senator ROBINSON . Do you mean to say , in 14 INTERSTATE COMMERCE IN PRODUCTS OF CHILD LABOR . 1 ...
... 30 years . Mr. SMYTH . In 30 years : yes , sir . You will hear other testimony from physicians upon the same matter . 1 Senator ROBINSON . Do you mean to say , in 14 INTERSTATE COMMERCE IN PRODUCTS OF CHILD LABOR . 1 ...
Page 15
... matter up or in- vestigated it to know whether they kept an accurate record ? Mr. SMYTH . I have no reason to think they have not . They have no reason not to do so , one way or the other . Senator ROBINSON . But do you know that they ...
... matter up or in- vestigated it to know whether they kept an accurate record ? Mr. SMYTH . I have no reason to think they have not . They have no reason not to do so , one way or the other . Senator ROBINSON . But do you know that they ...
Contents
210 | |
212 | |
213 | |
219 | |
221 | |
223 | |
225 | |
226 | |
153 | |
167 | |
174 | |
176 | |
177 | |
180 | |
181 | |
184 | |
209 | |
231 | |
234 | |
238 | |
239 | |
241 | |
282 | |
290 | |
291 | |
Common terms and phrases
75 cents aged 12 aged 13 aged 14 boys census cents a day cents per day child labor child-labor bill child-labor law children under 16 commerce clause commerce power committee Constitution cotton mills due process due process clause earns 50 cents eight hours eight-hour day EMERY employees employment of children enacted exercise factories Father Federal fifth amendment fourteenth amendment Government hookworm hours a day industry interstate commerce KITCHIN legislation manufacturers Massachusetts McKELWAY merce mill village Miss GARRETT months mother North Carolina number of children PATTERSON persons police power power of Congress power to regulate products of child protection question Rent Roanoke Rapids ROBERTS RUFFIN Senator BRANDEGEE Senator CLAPP Senator CUMMINS Senator LA FOLLETTE Senator LIPPITT Senator POINDEXTER Senator POMERENE Senator ROBINSON Senator THOMPSON shipment SMYTH South Supreme Court SWIFT tion transportation tuberculosis United welfare younger children
Popular passages
Page 131 - Congress, though limited to specified objects, is plenary as to those objects, the power over commerce with foreign nations, and among the several States, is vested in Congress as absolutely as it would be in a single government, having in its constitution the same restrictions on the exercise of the power as are found in the constitution of the United States.
Page 131 - It may be doubted whether any of the evils proceeding from the feebleness of the federal government, contributed more to that great revolution which introduced the present system, than the deep and general conviction, that commerce ought to be regulated by Congress.
Page 199 - Bureau shall investigate and report . . . upon all matters pertaining to the welfare of children and child life among all classes of our people...
Page 143 - There is no absolute freedom to do as one wills or to contract as one chooses. The guaranty of liberty does not withdraw from legislative supervision that wide department of activity which consists of the making of contracts, or deny to government the power to provide restrictive safeguards. Liberty implies the absence of arbitrary restraint, not immunity from reasonable regulations and prohibitions imposed in the interests of the community.
Page 251 - They form a portion of that immense mass of legislation which embraces everything within the territory of a State not surrendered to the General Government; all which can be most advantageously exercised by the States themselves.
Page 131 - It is the power to regulate; that is, to prescribe the rule by which commerce is to be governed. This power, like all others vested in congress, is complete in itself, may be exercised to its utmost extent, and acknowledges no limitations other than are prescribed in the constitution.
Page 253 - 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 250 - The better to secure and perpetuate mutual friendship and intercourse among the people of the different States in this Union, the free inhabitants of each of these States, (paupers, vagabonds, and fugitives from justice excepted,) shall be entitled to all privileges and immunities of free citizens in the several States...
Page 144 - It may be put forth in aid of what is sanctioned by usage, or held by the prevailing morality or strong and preponderant opinion to be greatly and immediately necessary to the public welfare.
Page 278 - Government, and reserves and secures the same rights and privileges to the citizen; and as long as it continues to exist in its present form, it speaks not only in the same words, but with the same meaning and intent with which it spoke when it came from the hands of its framers, and was voted on and adopted by the people of the United States. Any other rule of construction would abrogate the judicial character of this court, and make it the mere reflex of the popular opinion or passion of the day.